H.R. 2733 would authorize the following land conveyances between the federal government and various tribes in Nevada:
19,094 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to be held in trust for the benefit of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe;
82 acres of land managed by the United States Forest Service to be held in trust for the benefit of the Shoshone Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation;
941 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Summit Lake Paiute Tribe;
13,434 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony;
6,357 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe; and
31,229 acres of land managed by BLM to be held in trust for the benefit of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe.
Based on information from the affected agencies, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would not have a significant effect on the federal budget. Under current law, CBO expects that programs to develop federally owned natural resources on some of the lands to be conveyed will generate receipts, particularly from grazing permits. The federal budget does not recognize any such receipts from land that is held in trust. Thus, CBO estimates that conveying those lands would reduce offsetting receipts (which are treated as increases in direct spending); however, we estimate that such losses would be insignificant.
Because enacting H.R. 2733 would increase direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Enacting H.R. 2733 would not affect revenues. CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 2733 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits by more than $5 billion in any of the next four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.
H.R. 2733 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
On November 5, 2015, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 1436, the Nevada Native Nations Land Act, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on October 21, 2015. H.R. 2733 and S. 1436 are similar, and the CBO cost estimates are the same.
