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PAD-79-64 1 (1979-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazye0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 110906 0ISEPTEMBE PAD 7964 IC~rnT T41 rSEPTEMBER 25, 1979