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S. 432, Cerros del Norte Conservation Act 1 (April 6, 2017)

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                    CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                                COST ESTIMATE

                                                                    April 6, 2017



                                    S.  432
                     Cerros  del Norte  Conservation Act

    As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
                                on March 30, 2017


S. 432 would designate two parcels of land within the Rio Grande del Norte National
Monument  as wilderness areas. Based on information provided by the Bureau of Land
Management  (BLM),  CBO  estimates that implementing the legislation would have no
significant effect on the federal budget.

Under S. 432, roughly 22,000 acres of federal land would be designated as part of the
National Wilderness Preservation System. BLM, which manages the affected acreage,
would be required to create new maps for the area. In addition, under the bill, the affected
lands would not be available for developing natural resources but would still be available
for grazing under existing agreements.

Because the affected lands are already protected for conservation and wilderness values,
CBO  estimates that implementing the bill would have no significant effect on the cost of
administering the area. We also expect that any costs to modify existing maps and other
materials would be minimal. Finally, because the affected lands currently produce no
income (and are not expected to do so in the future), we estimate that enacting the bill
would not affect offsetting receipts, which are treated as reductions in direct spending.

Enacting S. 432 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go
procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting the bill would not increase net
direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods
beginning in 2028.

S. 432 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded  Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.

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

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