Receipts are collected by USDA's Forest Service from land-use fees and sale of resources on 191 million acres of national forests and grasslands.
Federal law requires states to use their share of the receipts for public schools and roads.
The final payments will be based on actual receipts collected and may vary from the estimates announced today. Interim payments totaling 75 percent of the estimated state shares of national forest receipts are scheduled to be made in October. The balance is scheduled to be paid in December, when final revenue figures for fiscal year 1996 are available. Counties in some of the states also share in the national grassland and land utilization project receipts which are based on calendar year 1996 revenues. These receipts are scheduled to be paid in March 1997.