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Show BLM issues Payments in Lieu of Taxes San Juan County received more than$769,099 from the Bureau of Land Management under the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Act. This represents a $100,000 increase over the 2002 payment, in total, counties in Utah received more than $18 million from the federal government as compensation for the decreased tax base caused by a high percentage of federal land in the area. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will send over $218 million this year to local governments under the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Act. The BLM will communities pay for roads, e operations, and other services, she added. Congress appropriates funds for PILT payments to eligible units of local government each year. BLM calculates the payment amount using a formula based on population and the amount of Federal land in a jurisdiction. Federal revenue transferred to local governments under other programs, such as income generated from the use of public land for livestock grazing, timber harvests, and mineral receipts, are deducted from the receiving county's PILT payments. search-and-rescu- distribute PILT funding to compensate almost 1,900 local governments in Fiscal Year 2003 because of the presence of This year, some counties will receive slightly reduced PILT payments to adjust for increased revenue received during the previous fiscal year Federal lands that are not subject to local taxes. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton continued the under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Act. This Act provides payments to compensate certain counties for deSelf-Determinati- practice begun in 2002 of sending the PILT payments three months earlier than in previous years. The accelerated clining timber receipts. This combination of PILT payments and payments under the Secure Rural School Act, however, will result in a higher overall payment to affected counties. Changes in PILT payments can also occur based on the amount that Congress appropriates for the program payment schedule represents the Secretarys continuing effort to coordinate with local governments as they budget for their fiscal years, many of which begin on July 1. PILT payments exemplify the Secretarys commitment to communication, coordination, in a given fiscal year. This years PILT payments and consultation, all in the service of conservation, said of $218,172,589 represent an BLM Director Kathl een increase of more than $8.8 milClarke. This money helps lion over Fiscal Year 2002. THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, June 25. 2005 (PILT) Including this years pay- ments, the BLM has distributed over $3.2 billion to local governments since the program began in 1977. All states except Rhode Island, which has almost no Federal land, are receiving PILT payments in 2003. The District of Columbia. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands also receive PILT payments. The States whose local governments receive the most under the program this year are New Mexico, California, and Utah. The BLM, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages more land 261 million surface acres than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is located in 12 Western States. ineludingAlaska. The Bureau, with a budget of about $1.9 billion anti a workforce of some 10.000 permanent also administers employees, 700 million acres of mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's multimission is to sustain ple-use tht health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on the public lands. full-tim- e, sub-surfac- e Crop Disaster - Page has begun sign-u- p cent of the established price to producers for crops that could have been insured but werent. The Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 requires 2001 and 2002 crop disaster payments for production and quality losses to be calculated by the same formula and loss thresholds used for the 2000 crop disaster program. This means the prices used to calculate disaster payments for crops insured under the Federal Crop Insurance Program will be the The Farm Service Agency has announced that the sign up for USD As new Crop Disas- ter Program of the 2001 or 2002 crop has begun. Producers who suffered a 35 percent loss can call their local FSA County Office to schedule an appointment for submitting an application. The closing date for sign-up will be announced later, but producers will be given ample opportunity to complete the process. Payment will provide $2 billion in aid for producers Actual Production History suffering from natural disasters. Over the past two years, se- (API!) prices. insured, For crops not five-yea- average r market prices will be used. The law also requires the 2001 or 2002 crop disaster payments be reduced if the sum of: 1 the disaster payment; (2) the net crop insurance indemnity; and (3) the value of the crop that was not lost exceeds 95 percent of what tin value of the crop would have been in the absence of a loss. Payments will be made to produc- ven weather conditions in many parts of Utah have brought economic hardships. said Boyd Critchfield, state ( FSA director. We're working to provide benefits to the farm- ers and ranchers as soon as possible. Under GDP. producers will hi reimbursed for qualifying crop production and quality losses to crops for either the 2001 or 2002 crops, but not both. Producers who suffered a 35 percent crop loss of tin expected production will bo paid 50 percent of the established price for crops that wen covered by crop insurance; 50 percent of tin established price for crops for which crop insurance was not available; and 15 per ) ers shortly alter sign-u- p begins. The GDP has no funding limitation but each producer is limited to $80. 000. The US DA Farm Service web at site, Agency disaster.fsa.usda.gov, provides producers with one convenient location for details on now and existing disaster assistance Need $$$ for a i acatlon or for July 4th? VJe ccn hefc - Cd or stop by today Im going to Disneyland! 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Main St Friday, lulv 4 6 am: 5l UT Fun Run & Hiatt Walk Start and end at the Visitor Center (Steve Kim 435-678-202- 9) Flag Raising and Patriotic Speaker 7 am: 10 am: 01 Blanding Visitor Center TOLL Parade on Main Street Blanding (Silvia Stubbs Food Booths at School District Building (David Lacy "No Engine" Car Races Top of Main Street (Super Splash Car Wash - Shelby Seely Children's Cames in front of the High School (CM Concrete Noon: CALL TODAY! 435-678-78- 82 800 - 471 - 2620 TOLL FREE 4fh of July 5K Fun RunlValk 435-678-326- Noon: McDonald 2 FREE LOANS Phone applicants welcome 435-678-786- 11 am: 1 Blanding, Office hours 9 am - 6 pm 435-678-38- Style Station - Sherrie Stanley - lom 435-678-341- Diving for Dollars Blanding Swimming Pool Boxing at the Fdigh School Cymnasium pm: pm: (Don Palmer Craig Swcnscn 435-678-26- 435-678-228- July 4, 2003 630 a.m. Evening Extravaganza w Local Talent and Fdarmony Road San Juan Fdigh School Practice Football Field 5 pm: (Family Dental Clinic - Paul or Lisa Macdonald Begins and ends at the Blanding Visitor Center 435-678-298- Fireworks at the Football Field Dark: Registration Fee: $15 before June 25 guarantees a Saturday, lulv 5 T-sh- irt Motor Cross Competition Bull Fdollow Raceway 7 am: Participants meet at Bull Fdollow (Britt Barton 435-678-379- 0) Competition for general public begins Qymkbana (Fdorse Cames) at Brice Arena on Pinon Ridge Road 10 am: 10 am: Brice - helped by Butch and Wally 435-678-208- 4) Midnight Madness Softball at the Little League Baseball Midnight: (Mike Bowers 435-678-39- or the City Offices Fields 435-678-279- 1) you have any questions please call Lynn Stevens, Blanding 4th of July Committee Chairman, at If 435-678-36- 98 Registration covers entry fee (Mittic and T-s- hirt Applications mat be picked up at the City Office. 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