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federal “in lieu of taxes” payment program, intended to reimburse localities for tax revenues lost from federally owned land.
Rappahannock County received its S6.000 as payment on about 9,000 acres, interjected Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Executive Director John Capelle.
The county had expected to get a lot more but a ruling by the Bureau of Land Management limited payments to land that was acquired by the federal government from private owners, according to Luke. Currently, land transferred from the state to federal ownership is ineligible for payments in lieu of taxes. This unfairly affects a number of Virginia counties since state authorities purchased land from private citizens in an attempt to facilitate eventual transfer to federal ownership, maintained Luke.
He told the Board that Capelle’s Planning District office had volunteered to help Rappahannock and the other counties in the District with land inside Shenandoah Park boundaries in pursuing efforts to have the Bureau of Land Management’s ruling changed.
Rappahannock was supposed to get $24,047.25 instead of just $6,000, according to Capelle. “There is a mechanism to protest this ruling...You may not get it
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