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1 H.R. 3397, Free Veterans from Fees Act [1] (April 26, 2018)

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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

C                             COST   ESTIMATE
                                                                   April 26, 2018


                                   H.R.   3997
                          Free Veterans   from  Fees Act

   As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 11, 2018


 H.R. 3997 would waive application fees for permits to hold certain veterans' events at
 war memorials on federal land.

 CBO  is aware of two agencies that operate such war memorials: the National Park
 Service (NPS) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Current law authorizes the NPS to
 recover the costs of providing necessary services at events held on NPS lands. Permit
 application fees, which average $75 each, may be applied toward that cost recovery.
 Those fees and any other cost recovery payments are recorded as discretionary offsetting
 collections. According to the NPS, however, the agency already waives permit
 application fees for most veterans' events that would be covered under the bill.
 According to DoD, veterans typically have access to war memorials on military bases,
 and it does not collect application fees for the type of permits that would be covered
 under the bill. As a result, CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 3997 would affect a
 small number of permit applications and would increase net discretionary spending by an
 insignificant amount.

 Enacting H.R. 3997 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-
 go procedures do not apply.

 CBO  estimates that enacting H.R. 3997 would not increase net direct spending or on-
 budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2029.

 H.R. 3997 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
 Unfunded Mandates Reform  Act.

 The CBO  staff contacts for this estimate are Janani Shankaran (for the NPS) and David
 Newman  (for DoD). The estimate was reviewed by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy
 Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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