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S. 1776, TIRES Act 1 (February 16, 2016)

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                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                              COST ESTIMATE

                                                                February 16, 2016


                                    S. 1776
                                  TIRES Act

    As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 22, 2015


SUMMARY

S. 1776 would revise environmental regulations that are applied to certain highway
infrastructure projects on Indian reservations administered by the Department of the
Interior (DOI) and the Federal Aid Highway Administration (FHWA) and funded from the
Highway Trust Fund. The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act)
provided $2.4 billion in contract authority (a mandatory form of budget authority) for
programs authorized by S. 1776 over the 2016-2020 period. S. 1776 bill would increase the
contract authority available for those programs by $150 million over the 2016-2021 period.

CBO extends contract authority at the level specified in the last year of the authorization.
Thus, we estimate that enacting the bill would increase contract authority relative to CBO's
baseline by $340 million over the 2016-2026 period. Use of those amounts has
traditionally been controlled by provisions in appropriation acts that limit the amount of
contract authority that may be obligated. Because enacting the bill would not affect direct
spending outlays or revenues, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

For this estimate, CBO assumes that most spending for tribal highway programs funded
from the Highway Trust Fund will continue to be controlled by obligation limitations set in
appropriations acts. CBO estimates that the bill would authorize an increase in obligation
limitations equal to the increase in budget authority over the 2016-2021 period. Under that
assumption, CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost $150 million over the
2016-2026 period.

CBO estimates that enacting the legislation would not increase net direct spending or
on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.

S. 1776 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA).

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