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Letter to the Honorable Ron Wyden regarding S. 1875, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2013, and H.R. 3992, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2014 1 (May 8, 2014)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo1638 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 May 8, 2014 Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator: As you requested, CBO has reviewed S. 1875, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2013, and H.R. 3992, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2014. Those bills would allow for increases in the annual caps on discretionary funding established under the Budget Control Act of 2011 of as much as $2.689 billion a year to fund activities related to wildfire suppression. S. 1875 and H.R. 3992 would not authorize additional funding for wildfire suppression activities or appropriate funds for those purposes. Therefore, CBO estimates that enacting either bill, by itself, would have no effect on the federal budget. In addition, because enacting either bill would not affect direct spending or revenues, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. The Budget Control Act established caps on the amount of new budget authority the Congress can provide in annual appropriation bills through 2021. Under that act, the caps can be adjusted upward to accommodate additional funding for overseas contingency operations (that is, war-related activities), disaster relief (up to specified amounts), program integrity initiatives (up to specified amounts), and anything designated as an emergency requirement. Over the 2015-2021 period, S. 1875 and H.R. 3992 would allow for an additional cap adjustment in any year equal to the difference between the amounts appropriated for wildfire suppression in that year and 70 percent of the average annual amounts obligated for wildfire suppression over the previous decade; however, the upward cap adjustment for wildfire suppression could not exceed $2.689 billion in any year.

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