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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL                                       Vto



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES





Alternatives for Achieving Greater

Equities in Federal Land Payment

Programs

A variety of land payment programs have
evolved over the years to compensate States
and counties for tax exemptions on Federal
  land within their jurisdiction GAO reviewed
  programs in eight western States where 80
  percent of the Federal land payments are
  made and found many inequities and incon
  sistencies
4ublic Law 94-565, pssed-w49. 6, contrib
utes to these inequities by

     - allowing States to influence the size of
     Federal payments to local governments,
     --requiring the administering agency to
     use State data which has been unrelia
     ble for computing payments, and
     -providing payments to counties that
     were already being compensated with-
     out them
            /
 This report evaluates several alternatives to
 the current payment system and recommends
 that the Congress change the laws to require
 computation of payments on a tax equiva-
 lency basis--i e , amounts equal to taxes if
 the land were privately owned



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                                      0ISEPTEMBE PAD 7964
                 IC~rnT T41 rSEPTEMBER 25, 1979

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