WASHINGTON –32 counties across New Mexico will receive $41,357,054 through the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. The PILT funding will be used by local governments across New Mexico to provide crucial services to residents, such as public safety, fire protection, emergency response, road maintenance, and more. A full list of funding by county is available below.
PILT provides federal payments to local governments to help offset losses in property taxes because of nontaxable federal land within their jurisdictions, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges, and Bureau of Land Management land. New Mexico counties received payments for over 22 million acres of nontaxable federal land. The $41 million for 2020 New Mexico funding was approved as part of $514.7 million included in the Department of Interior’s portion of the Fiscal Year 2020 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was enacted into law in February with the support of Udall and Heinrich.
The PILT program is administered by the Department of the Interior, which calculates annual payments to local governments based on the number of acres of federal entitlement land within each county and the population of that county. The lands include the National Forest and National Park Systems, lands in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuge System, and areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The full list of New Mexico $41,357,054 in PILT payments for Fiscal Year 2020:
Bernalillo County, $228,158
Catron County, $680,804
Chaves County, $3,375,473
Cibola County, $1,997,440
Colfax County, $178,999
De Baca County, $119,091
Dona Ana County, $3,334,673
Eddy County, $3,735,551
Grant County, $2,225,752
Guadalupe County, $173,489
Harding County, $122,598
Hidalgo County, $741,033
Lea County, $1,183,659
Lincoln County, $1,930,200
Los Alamos County, $95,190
Luna County, $2,094,135
McKinley County, $1,020,531
Mora County, $270,831
Otero County, $3,466,522
Quay County, $5,077
Rio Arriba County, $2,522,415
Roosevelt County, $30,308
San Juan County, $2,422,565
San Miguel County, $912,525
Sandoval County, $2,417,346
Santa Fe County, $805,449
Sierra County, $1,266,753
Socorro County, $1,506,873
Taos County, $1,897,930
Torrance County, $341,746
Union County, $165,390
Valencia County, $88,578
