Description:
H.R. 689 would require the Forest Service to provide a special use authorization to the town of Minturn, Colorado, to allow the town to manage and maintain a headgate used to divert water to Bolts Lake. Based on an analysis of information from the Forest Service, CBO estimates the enacting the legislation would increase offsetting receipts from annual fees associated with the authorization by about $150 a year; therefore pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting the legislation would not affect revenues.
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 689 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
H.R. 689 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would benefit the town of Minturn, Colorado; it would give the town easier access to the Bolts Ditch headgate so that it could repair and maintain the town’s water supply.
On April 7, 2017, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 285, the Bolts Ditch Access and Use Act, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 30, 2017. H.R. 689 and S. 285 are similar and CBO’s cost estimate for each piece of legislation is the same.
