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Show In-liou payments-nni'hoiisniion payments-nni'hoiisniion nnt; that takes' into accovkE ulation and certain otteg ments received undervifi federal land alws. h; Congress approprin: $100 million for these ft m ents . Recipients ma; termine use of the rntft Governors of each :s have been required to1 vide information nece;ai for the computation tai titlement land payment: Governors and ic government organizatit:8 sisted in preparations' proposed rules by tlc ing comments on the a1' ment prior to public;8' Other comments l received until Septen by the Director (410) reau of Land Manage Department of the Bit Washington, D. C. 3 Proposed rulemaking on payments in lieu of taxes to local governments forcer-tain forcer-tain federal lands located within their boundaries has been announced by the Inter -ior Department's Bureau of Land Management. The proposed rules published pub-lished August 8 in the Federal Fed-eral Register, would implement imple-ment the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act of 1976 , according ac-cording to Paul L. Howard, BLM Utah state director. The act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make payments pay-ments to units of local government gov-ernment which do not receive property tax revenues on certain cer-tain tax-exempt federally owned lands within their boundaries. The proposed rules define the units of local government that will be eligible for payments, pay-ments, identify the categories cat-egories of federally owned lands covered by the act, and establish criteria for making payments. They also outline out-line appeal procedures for resolution of any problems. The 1976 act authorizes annual payments of up to 75 cents an acre for designated federal lands called "entitlement "entitle-ment lands." The amount of each payment would be determined de-termined under a formula |