Separating bow repairs from a cruiser's refit bill

How expensive were repairs to USS New Orleans and a sister ship after they lost their bows?

The bow work is characterised as mainly steel fabrication, but no exact price is offered because New Orleans's repair bill was incorporated into a larger refit and modernisation.

Replacing New Orleans's damaged bow is assessed as largely a steelwork job. Straightening a distorted keel would have been a different undertaking, but that is said to have been unnecessary here. Battle-damage repairs coincided with a major refit. The bow replacement's cost is therefore buried within the wider modernisation bill. Its character as steel fabrication supports a qualitative judgment that the work was relatively inexpensive, without establishing a separate price.