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.
