To provide for the leasing of certain deposits of minerals located within the City of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 7882.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 7882, a bill to provide for the leasing of certain deposits of minerals located within the City of Carlsbad, New Mexico” on September 29, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 10, 2026”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 29, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62816

  CBO publication date

  September 29, 2026

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7882, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7882

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 29, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 30, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bbd74683b70b349d877dec82d28d7dce57ef4732b2017a183807efd87474d0f3

• 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.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STAUBER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 43, March 9, 2026, Page H2477):
  Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 9, 2026 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  29 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 7882, 119th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/7882

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 29, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 30, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  bbd74683b70b349d877dec82d28d7dce57ef4732b2017a183807efd87474d0f3

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

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 29, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 7882, last updated September 29, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 30, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.