[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6519]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CBO COST ESTIMATE--S. 782

  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, in compliance with paragraph 11(a) of 
rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources has obtained from the Congressional Budget Office 
an estimate of the costs of S. 782, Grand Canyon Bison Management Act, 
as reported from the committee. The full estimate is available on CBO's 
Web site, www.cbo.gov.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the summary of the cost 
estimate be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

               Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate


               S. 782--Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

                           (January 8, 2016)

       S. 782 would require the National Park Service (NPS) to 
     publish a management plan to humanely reduce the population 
     of bison in the Grand Canyon National Park within 180 days of 
     enactment of the legislation. Based on information provided 
     by the NPS, CBO expects that publishing the management plan 
     within that timeframe would require the agency to expedite 
     its ongoing planning process and increase discretionary costs 
     by an insignificant amount.
       Enacting S. 782 would not affect direct spending or 
     revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. 
     CBO estimates that enacting S. 782 would not increase net 
     direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four 
     consecutive 10-year period beginning in 2026.
       S. 782 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector 
     mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and 
     would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal 
     governments.
       The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Marin Burnett. 
     The estimate was approved by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy 
     Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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