Locatable Minerals Claim Location and Maintenance Fees Act of 2015

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3843.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3843, Locatable Minerals Claim Location and Maintenance Fees Act” on August 11, 2016. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 15, 2016”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 11, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51903

  CBO publication date

  August 11, 2016

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3843, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3843

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  407bf496c3382084337b914e5eed1751ee8150918b447d1ce0e398d0b2f42942

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 114-717 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 6, 2016.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 6, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/114/HRPT/717

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3843, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3843

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  407bf496c3382084337b914e5eed1751ee8150918b447d1ce0e398d0b2f42942

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAMBORN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 161, No. 159, October 28, 2015, Page H7332):
  Article IV, section 3, clause 2 and Article I, section 8, clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 28, 2015 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  Statement length

  67 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3843, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/3843

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  407bf496c3382084337b914e5eed1751ee8150918b447d1ce0e398d0b2f42942

  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. 3843, 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.