Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4596.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4596, Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2023” on May 8, 2024. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 20, 2023”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 8, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

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  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60273

  CBO publication date

  May 8, 2024

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4596, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 5, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 118-669 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Natural Resources Committee on September 12, 2024.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported September 12, 2024 ↗

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  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/118/HRPT/669

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4596, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 5, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. BOEBERT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 120, July 13, 2023, Page H3575):
  Article I Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; The single subject of this legislation is: Reauthorizes the Bureau of Reclamation to provide costshared funding to implement the endangered and threatened fish recovery programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 13, 2023 ↗

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  Statement length

  510 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4596, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/4596

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 5, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  c8c0dc56fca3c33662cdc7a36244998af792bb214cd0948f538bb75c64d3c1e8

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