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H.R. 5384, Federal Register Printing Savings Act of 2016 1 (November 29, 2016)

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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                             COST ESTIMATE

                                                             November 29, 2016


                                 H.R. 5384
               Federal Register Printing Savings Act of 2016

  As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
                             on November 16, 2016


H.R. 5384 would amend federal law to prohibit the Government Printing Office (GPO)
from furnishing a printed copy of the Federal Register without charge to a Member of
Congress or any employee of the U.S. government unless specifically requested. The
Federal Register compiles and organizes thousands of rules, regulations, executive orders,
presidential documents, and notices generated by federal departments and agencies.

Using information from the National Archives and Records Administration and GPO,
CBO expects that implementing the bill would end the distribution of about 1,000 copies of
the Federal Register that are distributed daily for free. The average Federal Register has
300 pages and costs $4.50 to produce and distribute. CBO estimates that eliminating those
free copies of the Federal Register would reduce spending that is subject to appropriation
by $1 million annually. Enacting the bill would not affect direct spending or revenues;
therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 5384 would not increase direct spending or on-budget
deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.

H.R. 5384 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal
governments.

The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Matthew Pickford. The estimate was approved
by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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