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S. 1941, Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act of 2015 1 (December 7, 2015)

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                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                             COST ESTIMATE

                                                               December  7, 2015


                                   S.  1941
                Crags, Colorado   Land   Exchange   Act of 2015

    As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
                              on November 19, 2015


S. 1941 would require the Forest Service to exchange, at the request of a private entity,
82 acres of federal lands in the Pike National Forest for 320 acres of private lands in that
forest. Because CBO expects that the parcels would have a similar value per acre, we
estimate that the total value of the private lands would exceed the value of the affected
federal lands. Under the bill, the federal government would not be required to compensate
the private entity to make up for that difference. However, CBO expects that the Forest
Service will receive annual payments of a little more than $30,000 for a special use permit
on the affected federal parcel.

On that basis, CBO estimates that enacting S. 1941 would reduce offsetting receipts, which
are treated as reductions in direct spending, by about $350,000 over the 2016-2025 period;
therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting S. 1941 would not affect revenues.

CBO  estimates that enacting the legislation would not increase net direct spending or
on-budget deficits by more than $5 billion in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods
beginning in 2026.

Because S. 1941 would require the private entity to pay any administrative costs associated
with the land exchange and CBO expects that any updates to maps or signage would be
completed in conjunction with scheduled reprinting and routine maintenance, we estimate
that implementing the bill would not affect discretionary spending.

S. 1941 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates  Reform Act (UMRA).  The land exchange between the federal
government and a private business would have a small incidental effect on property taxes
collected by local governments in Colorado. That effect, however, would not result from
an intergovernmental mandate as defined in UMRA.

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