Pete Domenici: “This reserve fund will accommodate legislation recently reported by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that will…”

“This reserve fund will accommodate legislation recently reported by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that will correct a very large problem for counties across the country which have historically shared receipts taken in by the Forest Service and BLM. The decline in those receipts over the last ten years has had devastating effects on many rural school districts, especially in the rural West, and the Budget Committee has provided $1.1 billion over the next five years to stabilize the flow of resources to these counties.”