To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1820.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1820, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes” on March 4, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on October 8, 2015”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 4, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51355

  CBO publication date

  March 4, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1820, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1820

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  113c9a797a8e2fde12986cfd77e4a231c13b2b527123825f7004529e14dedb88

• 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 reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-446 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on March 10, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported March 10, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/446

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1820, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1820

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  113c9a797a8e2fde12986cfd77e4a231c13b2b527123825f7004529e14dedb88

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BEN RAY LUJAAN of New Mexico, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 54, April 15, 2015, Page H2270):
  Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 15, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  62 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1820, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/1820

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  113c9a797a8e2fde12986cfd77e4a231c13b2b527123825f7004529e14dedb88

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1820, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.