A bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects and acid mine remediation programs.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 897.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 897, A bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified states and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects and acid mine remediation” on August 5, 2011. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 14, 2011”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 5, 2011 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41143

  CBO publication date

  August 5, 2011

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 897, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/s/897

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportsCongress.gov lists 2 committee reports for this bill: H. Rept. 112-429 ↗; S. Rept. 112-63 ↗.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 16, 2012 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/HRPT/429
  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/112/SRPT/63

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 897, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/s/897

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 8, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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