Dombeck said receipts are collected from land-use fees and sale of resources on 191 million acres of national forests and grasslands.
States use their share of the receipts for public schools and roads.
Providing advance estimates of the state payments helps local budgetplanners complete their work, said Dombeck. 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 will be made in October. The balance will be paid in December, when final revenue figures for fiscal year 1998 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 1998 revenues.