koshergrl
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Compensation money the feds agreed to pay when they unconstitutionally shut down resource access in rural areas, including Teton County, CO, is not sufficient according to the law. More than 800 counties have filed a class action suit against them because of it.
"Kane County, Utah — home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and parts of Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks — filed a lawsuit in 2015 claiming that the Department of the Interior appropriated less PILT funding than was required by law.
"The law dictates that PILT payments must be calculated using a strict formula based on each county’s population and acreage of federal land.
"Ultimately, Kane County prevailed in the lawsuit: The court found that the federal government owed counties extra PILT funds for 2015 through 2017, according to Deputy County Attorney Keith Gingery.
"A judge issued an order certifying the case as a class-action, opening it up for any counties that receive PILT funds to join by Sept. 14 for a chance at receiving money."
This is just another instance of these out of control agencies either blatantly ignoring the law, or *changing* it (unconstitutionally and administratively) in ways that benefit them and them alone.
County joins lawsuit seeking federal funds
A list of the counties...pretty much every US county that has public lands:
Case Counties Archive - Smith Currie
"Kane County, Utah — home to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and parts of Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks — filed a lawsuit in 2015 claiming that the Department of the Interior appropriated less PILT funding than was required by law.
"The law dictates that PILT payments must be calculated using a strict formula based on each county’s population and acreage of federal land.
"Ultimately, Kane County prevailed in the lawsuit: The court found that the federal government owed counties extra PILT funds for 2015 through 2017, according to Deputy County Attorney Keith Gingery.
"A judge issued an order certifying the case as a class-action, opening it up for any counties that receive PILT funds to join by Sept. 14 for a chance at receiving money."
This is just another instance of these out of control agencies either blatantly ignoring the law, or *changing* it (unconstitutionally and administratively) in ways that benefit them and them alone.
County joins lawsuit seeking federal funds
A list of the counties...pretty much every US county that has public lands:
Case Counties Archive - Smith Currie