Feds to compensate county $1 million for nontaxable land

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Thursday, Sept. 23, 1999 | 10:42 a.m.

Clark County will receive nearly $1 million of $7 million the federal government is paying to compensate Nevada counties for the nontaxable federal land within their boundaries.

The money, paid through the Bureau of Land Management, will be split among 17 counties. Clark is to receive $991,677 and Nye will get $685,535. Washoe and Elko counties also will receive nearly $1 million each.

The federal government paid $125 million in such compensation this year. U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, is leading the call to raise that amount to $135 million in 2000.

Reid, noting that 87 percent of Nevada's land is controlled by the federal government, said that without the compensation small communities would have to cut local services or raise taxes.