Description:
H.R. 3826 would amend current law to modify the terms of a land exchange between the Forest Service and the Mt. Hood Meadows ski area in Oregon. The bill would reduce the amount of land the agency would be authorized to convey to the ski area from 120 acres to 107 acres. The bill also contains provisions aimed at expediting the exchange.
Based on information provided by the Forest Service, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would not affect the federal budget. Because CBO expects that enacting the bill would not affect whether the exchange would occur or when it would take place, we estimate that enacting the bill would not affect direct spending. Enacting the bill also would not affect revenues. Therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 3826 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.
H.R. 3826 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
On January 5, 2016, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 2069, a bill to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions relating to certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood Wilderness in the State of Oregon, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 19, 2015. H.R. 3826 and S. 2069 are similar, and CBO’s estimates of the budgetary effects are the same.
