Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1194

 90 STAT. 2662

PUBLIC LAW 94^565—OCT. 20, 1976

Public Law 94-565 94th Congress An Act Oct. 20. 1976 [H.R. 9719]

To provide for certain payments to be made to local governments by the Secretary of the Interior based upon the amount of certain public lands within the boundaries of such locality.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Local government United States of America in Congress assembled, That effective for units. fiscal years beginning on and after October i, 1976, the Secretary is Public lands, authorized and directed to make payments on a fiscal year basis to each payments. unit of local government in which entitlement lands (as defined in 31 USC 1601. section 6) are located. Such payments may be used by such unit for any governmental purpose. The amount of such payments shall be computed as provided in section 2. Amounts, SEC. 2. (a) The amount of any payment made for any fiscal year to detennination. a unit of local government under section 1 shall be equal to the greater 31 USC 1602. of the following amounts— (1) 75 cents for each acre of entitlement land located within the boundaries of such unit of local government (but not in excess of the population limitation determined under subsection (b)), reduced (but not below 0) by the aggregate amount of payments, if any, received by such unit of local government during the preceding fiscal year under all of the provisions specified m section 4, or (2) 10 cents for each acre of entitlement land located within the boundaries of such unit of local government (but not in excess of the population limitation determined under subsection(b)). In the case of any payment under a provision specified in section 4 which is received by a State, the Governor (or his delegate) shall submit to the Secretary a statement respecting the amount of such payment which is transferred to each unit of local government within the State. (b)(1) In the case of any unit of local government having a population of less than five thousand, the population limitation applicable to such unit of local government shall not exceed an amount equal to $50 multiplied by the population within the jurisdiction of such unit of local government. (2) In the case of any unit of local government having a population of five thousand or more, the population limitation applicable to such unit of local government shall not exceed the amount computed under the following table (using a population figure rounded off to the nearest thousand): Payment shall not exceed the If population amount computed by multiplyequals— ing such population by— 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000. 10,000 11,000 12,000 13,000

$50. 00 47.00 44. 00 41.00 38.00 35.00 34.00 33.00 32.00

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