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1 H.R. 2582, Confirming State Land Grants for Education Act 1 (June 5, 2018)

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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                              COST ESTIMATE

                                                                      June 5, 2018


                                   H.R.   2582
              Confirming State Land Grants for Education Act

     As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
                                  on May 17, 2018


H.R. 2582 would allow the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)  to process the selection
of 520 acres of federal land in Utah under the Utah Enabling Act of 1894. That act
authorized the state of Utah to select certain federal lands to be held in trust by the School
and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), an independent state agency, for
the benefit of the state. The state used that authority to select 520 acres of land that BLM
identified for disposal. However, because BLM's land use plan for the area containing
the selected lands does not allow land to be disposed of through the land selection
process, the agency cannot transfer those lands to the state without revising its existing
plan. Using information from BLM, CBO does not expect the agency to make the
necessary revisions to that plan within the next 10 years.

Under H.R. 2582, BLM  would be authorized to process SITLA's land selections without
revising its existing land use plan. The affected lands currently generate receipts from
grazing allotments, rights-of-way, and gravel pits. Based on historical collections, CBO
estimates receipts from those sources will total less than $25,000 a year over the next
10 years. Thus, CBO estimates that allowing SITLA to take the affected lands into trust
would not have a significant effect on offsetting receipts (which are recorded in the
budget as reductions in direct spending) over the 2019-2028 period. Because enacting
H.R. 2582 would affect direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. The legislation
would not affect revenues.

CBO  estimates that enacting H.R. 2582 would not significantly increase net direct
spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning
in 2029.

H.R. 2582 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded  Mandates Reform Act and would benefit the state of Utah and local
governments by expediting the transfer of federal lands to the state. The transfer could
increase revenue from resource development on state trust lands; those revenues are used
to fund public schools in Utah. Any costs incurred by the State of Utah or local
governments associated would result from voluntary commitments.

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