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TO THE BOARD
OCT 0 1 199$
Constance Harbert, Chair
Weld County Commission
Weld County Courthouse
P.O. Box 758
Greeley, Colorado 80623-0758
Dear Ms. Harbert:
We have received notification that the 1998 Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT)
for Weld County is $79,185; a decrease from the 1997 payment of $90,875 or a
difference of $11,690. Weld County's payment was reduced to account for
non-PILT payments the county had received from the United States,
principally from mineral leasing. This non-PILT source of revenue to the
county increased in 1998, resulting in a decreased PILT payment.
The PILT program is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
which has responsibility to calculate the payments according to the formulas
established by law and to distribute the funds appropriated annually by
Congress. PILT is intended to offset losses in property taxes because of federal
ownership of certain lands within a county's boundaries. Of the 57 Colorado
counties entitled to PILT in 1998, Weld was one of fourteen counties (also El
Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa, Eagle, Las Animas, Mineral, Morgan, Otero,
Pitkin, Routt, Summit, and La Plata) that received less PILT payment than in
1997.
Payments are computed based on the number of entitlement acres within
each county, including lands within National Forest and National Park
Systems, BLM, lands affected by federal water resources development projects,
and other federal entitlement lands. Calculations are made by using the
higher of the following two alternatives. Payment under either alternative is
subject to population payment limitations.
- Number of acres of qualified federal land, reduced by the amount of funds
received by the county in the prior fiscal year under certain other federal
programs, or
- Number of acres of qualified federal land in the county, with no deduction
for prior-year payments.
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Additionally, the formula computes federal land acquisitions.
- One percent of the fair market value of any purchased land, comparing the
result to the amount of property taxes paid on the land in the year prior to
federal acquisition. The county payment is the lesser of the two.
- Payments are made for a period of five years only from the date the land was
purchased unless mandated otherwise by law. Some payments are made each
year from the date the land was purchased by the federal government until
five percent of the fair market value is fully paid. However, the yearly
payment may not exceed the lesser of one percent of the fair market value or
the property taxes that were assessed prior to federal acquisition.
The law sets up a sliding scale of maximum PILT payments that may be made
to each county based on population. For 1998, this started at $42.51 per capita
for counties with populations of 50,000 or more; rising to $106.13 per capita for
counties with populations of 5,000 or less. This works to balance payments to
heavily populated counties (that may have little federal land).
The following data were used in determining your 1998 payment:
Entitlement Acres 198,852
1998 entitlement land provision ($1..47/acre) X$1.59/acre
as adjusted to yearly inflation = $316,174 entitlement
percentage (from Consumer Price Index)
Less prior year payments $142,569
(Federal land receipt sharing
payments (non-PILT) received by
Weld County in 1997 $173,605
Proration of Congressional X 0.45612
appropriation for PILT among all $ 79,185
eligible units of local government
If you have questions, please contact Cindy McKee, External Affairs, 303/239-3670.
' cerely,
7O;.>rt. - Ann . Morgan
State Director
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BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT•COLORADO STATE OFFICE Fes`}ri
2850 YOUNGFIELD STREET• LAKEWOOD,COLORADO 80215
For Immediate Release: Friday, September 25, 1998
Contact: Patrice Junius (202) 452-5137
Barb Perkins (303) 239-3670
BLM Distributes Almost $119 Million in TILT' Checks to Local
Governments for Tax-Exempt Lands
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt today announced that the Interior Department has
sent payments for 1998 totaling almost$119 million to 2,327 local government units across the
United States in accordance with the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Act. This year's PILT
payment is nearly $6 million more than last year's total,which was$113 million.
The Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the Interior Department, distributes the
PILT payments to eligible units of local governments each year. The payments are intended to
offset the loss of tax revenue to States and localities caused by the presence of tax-exempt Federal
land within their jurisdictions.
"PILT payments help local governments carry out such vital services as firefighting and
police protection; construction of public schools and roads; and search-and-rescue operations,"
said BLM Director Pat Shea. "These payments are one of the ways that the Federal Government
can fulfill its role of being a good neighbor to local communities. This is an especially important
role for the BLM, which manages more land than any other Federal agency."
The annual PILT payments are made for tax-exempt Federal lands administered by the
BLM, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (all agencies of the Interior
Department), the U.S. Forest Service (part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture), and for Federal
water projects and some military installations.
Congress appropriates PILT payments each year. The BLM allocates according to a
formula in the PILT Act that includes population and the amount of Federal land within an affected
county. These payments are in addition to other Federal revenues (such as, oil and gas leasing,
livestock grazing, and timber harvesting) that the Federal Government transfers to the States. The
BLM has distributed more than two billion dollars in PILT payments to local governments since
these payments began in 1977.
All States (except Rhode Island) -- plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and
the Virgin Islands -- are receiving PILT funds for Fiscal Year 1998, which ends September 30.
The States with counties that collectively receive the largest amounts are: New Mexico,
$11,375,334; California, $12,001,299; Arizona, $10,033,602; Utah, $9,477,033; Montana,
$9,345,804; Colorado, $8,464,227; Idaho, $8,024,068; and Alaska, $8,067,394.
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The following is a county-by-county breakdown of Colorado's 1998 PILT payments.
1998
Entitlement 1998 1997
County Acres Payment Payment
Adams 0 0 0
Alamosa 86,004 58,504 54,871
Arapahoe 4,632 3,323 3,287
Archuleta 443,388 271,896 265,101
Baca 205,560 99,202 98,346
Bent 20,542 12,567 12,482
Boulder 170,428 117,243 110,832
Chaffee 508,978 344,659 341,274
Cheyenne 0 0 0
Clear Creek 170,180 28,413 28,199
Conejos 495,172 ' 292,653 245,618
Costilla 565 379 375
Crowley 4,427 3,211 3,211
Custer 175,135 118,034 116,749
Delta 399,548 154,300 136,622
Denver 0 0 0
Dolores 422,941 42,450 40,544
Douglas 146,764 101,193 100,505
Eagle 848,933 367,346 402,634
Elbert 0 0 0
El Paso 104,879 68,166 71,860
Fremont 447,316 316,781 317,568
Garfield 1,188,948 533,257 526,678
Gilpin 42,525 21,893 20,025
Grand 802,797 81,006 77,285
Gunnison 1,629,871 164,723 156,938
Hinsdale 676,883 33,789 32,318
Huerfano 211,054 138,470 143,644
Jackson 518,027 51,982 49,652
Jefferson 108,609 73,729 70,270
Kit Carson 0 0 0
Kiowa 8,201 3,579 3,965
La Plata 428,956 158,683 195,908
Lake 186,602 126,421 125,425
Latimer 822,357 579,460 550,829
Las Animas 317,595 211,428 212,374
Lincoln 1,872 1,260 1,358
Logan 801 209 77
Mesa 1,544,623 792,205 755,343
Mineral 526,615 32,821 33,046
Moffat 1,671,738 187,759 163,164
Montezuma 490,429 295,139 133,133
Montrose 973,161 674,688 666,461
Morgan 3,221 1,545 1,646
Otero 180,955 91,973 93,375
Ouray 155,063 104,350 98,874
Park 725,206 375,897 353,885
Phillips 0 0 0
Pitkin 561,202 199,481 223,956
Prowers 712 0 72
Pueblo 63,594 44,316 44,119
Rio Blanco 1,498,791 150,433 143,878
Rio Grande 334,725 218,709 172,820
Routt 668,159 99,879 119,400
Saguache 1,332,298 185,598 127,752
San Juan 215,448 21,620 20,565
San Miguel 486,536 175,210 172,304
Sedgwick 273 0 26
Summit 314,036 39,301 39,500
Teller 162,425 113,160 112,022
Washington 795 0 76
Weld 198,852 79,185 90,875
Yuma 7,470 749 717
Totals 23,716,817 $8,464,227 $8,083,833
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