The Department of the Interior on Wednesday announced that 57 local governments in California will receive a total of $64.3 million in payments in lieu of taxes, or PILT, funding for 2024.
Because local governments cannot tax federal lands, annual PILT payments help to defray the costs associated with maintaining important community services.
PILT payments are made for tax-exempt federal lands administered by the Department’s bureaus including the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
In addition, PILT payments cover federal lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission.
Payments are calculated based on the number of acres of federal land within each county or jurisdiction and the population of that county or jurisdiction.
Lake County will receive $1,063,125 for 386,108 acres, the agency said.
“The Biden-Harris administration is committed to boosting local communities,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget Joan Mooney. “PILT payments help local governments carry out vital services, such as firefighting and police protection, construction of public schools and roads, and search-and-rescue operations. We are grateful for our ongoing partnerships with local jurisdictions across the country who help the Interior Department fulfill our mission on behalf of the American public.”
Since PILT payments began in 1977, the Department has distributed nearly $12 billion to states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The department collects more than $22.2 billion in revenue annually from commercial activities on public lands.
A portion of those revenues is shared with states and counties. The balance is deposited into the U.S. Treasury, which in turn pays for a broad array of federal activities, including PILT funding.
Individual payments may vary from year to year as a result of changes in acreage data, which are updated annually by the federal agency administering the land; prior-year federal revenue-sharing payments reported annually by the governor of each state; and inflationary adjustments using the Consumer Price Index and population data, which are updated using information from the U.S. Census Bureau.
A full list of funding by state and county is below.
COUNTY PAYMENT TOTAL ACRES
ALAMEDA COUNTY $2,772 828
ALPINE COUNTY $206,377 430,224
AMADOR COUNTY $130,357 90,043
BUTTE COUNTY $324,076 155,478
CALAVERAS COUNTY $371,829 138,421
COLUSA COUNTY $292,192 107,513
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY $7,801 2,330
DEL NORTE COUNTY $910,205 447,575
EL DORADO COUNTY $928,457 545,224
FRESNO COUNTY $3,862,295 1,528,892
GLENN COUNTY $572,162 228,518
HUMBOLDT COUNTY $1,175,005 496,288
IMPERIAL COUNTY $3,808,098 1,137,466
INYO COUNTY $2,411,949 5,523,634
KERN COUNTY $3,525,809 1,085,139
KINGS COUNTY $29,389 9,047
LAKE COUNTY $1,063,125 386,108
LASSEN COUNTY $2,474,703 1,670,374
LOS ANGELES COUNTY $1,653,049 693,047
MADERA COUNTY $1,430,611 504,326
MARIN COUNTY $264,068 78,876
MARIPOSA COUNTY $1,546,043 514,779
MENDOCINO COUNTY $883,960 311,048
MERCED COUNTY $118,925 35,536
MODOC COUNTY $837,067 1,744,996
MONO COUNTY $1,501,009 1,749,662
MONTEREY COUNTY $1,143,504 344,113
NAPA COUNTY $202,369 60,471
NEVADA COUNTY $536,373 222,020
ORANGE COUNTY $157,550 55,813
PLACER COUNTY $1,006,946 406,277
PLUMAS COUNTY $733,808 1,179,249
RIVERSIDE COUNTY $4,289,443 2,348,603
SACRAMENTO COUNTY $32,217 9,623
SAN BENITO COUNTY $342,451 103,336
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY $4,140,532 8,470,157
SAN DIEGO COUNTY $1,449,345 479,172
SAN FRANCISCO $7,891 2,357
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY $7,489 2,237
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY $1,458,930 440,946
SAN MATEO COUNTY $20,780 6,207
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY $2,351,593 716,652
SANTA CLARA COUNTY $6,009 1,795
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY $19,562 5,843
SHASTA COUNTY $2,381,961 988,681
SIERRA COUNTY $297,216 435,461
SISKIYOU COUNTY $2,089,464 2,502,827
SOLANO COUNTY $19,277 5,758
SONOMA COUNTY $81,380 24,308
STANISLAUS COUNTY $10,996 3,287
SUTTER COUNTY $0 2
TEHAMA COUNTY $940,924 446,637
TRINITY COUNTY $750,951 1,565,472
TULARE COUNTY $4,251,368 1,530,762
TUOLUMNE COUNTY $3,129,191 1,093,922
VENTURA COUNTY $1,907,537 582,758
YOLO COUNTY $104,373 31,180
YUBA COUNTY $98,645 48,627
TOTAL: $64,301,408 43,729,925
Interior Department to pay $64.3 million to California to support vital services in communities
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