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H.R. 1654, Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act 1 (May 11, 2017)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo3533 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE May 11, 2017 H.R. 1654 Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 27, 2017 H.R. 1654 would direct the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to act as the lead federal agency for coordinating with 17 western states for issuing permits to construct new water storage projects on land managed by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture. The bill also would impose deadlines for carrying out certain activities related to each project. Based on information from BOR and other federal agencies, CBO estimates that implementing those provisions would cost about $1 million a year for staff to coordinate agency reviews, to consolidate project data and documentation, to review projects, and for regional directors to review permits. Such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. The bill also would authorize BOR to receive and spend funds contributed by nonfederal public entities to expedite the evaluation of permit applications for new projects. (With the aim of ensuring impartiality, amounts collected under the bill would not be used to cover the cost of final reviews required by regional directors; such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.) The amount collected each year would depend on the number of participants willing to contribute funds to expedite their permits. Based on an analysis of information from BOR, CBO estimates that in most years BOR would collect and spend less than $500,000 for such purposes and that the net effect on direct spending would be negligible. Because implementing those provisions would affect direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting H.R. 1654 would not affect revenues. 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. H.R. 1654 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. The bill would benefit public entities by expediting permits for federal water supply projects that serve those entities. Any costs incurred by state, local, or tribal governments that participate as cooperating agencies, including cost-sharing contributions, would result from voluntary commitments. The CBO staff contacts for this estimate are Aurora Swanson (for federal costs) and Jon Sperl (for intergovernmental mandates). The estimate was approved by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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