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timber. County payments, which have traditionally been taken 

 from federal timber receipts, are now governed by the special 

 revenue sharing provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation 

 Act, 1993 (P.L. 104-19) . 



Each State (Oregon, Washington and California) has a group called 

 the State Community Economic Revitalization Team (SCERT) to 

 coordinate the implementation of the (NEAI) . Members of federal, 

 state, local and tribal governments and the private sector work 

 cooperatively on these teams to make effective use of the funds 

 availedDle to help businesses and communities. For instance. 

 Forest Service NEAI efforts include providing technical and 

 financial assistance to displaced timber workers, and businesses 

 and communities through the Jobs In The Woods, Old Growth 

 Diversification, and Rural Community Assistance programs. 



Communities, tribes, businesses and individuals submit project 

 proposals to the State Community Economic Revitalization Teams. 

 The tecun makes an initial effort to determine the most 

 appropriate source of funding for a project and assigns each 

 project to a lead federal agency based on that determination. 

 The SCERTs send forward projects to the lead federal agency and 

 that agency decides how much each project can be funded. In 

 addition the lead federal agency also tries to find partnership 

 opportunities to supplement federal funding. Federal officials 

 on the team make the final decision about which projects will be 

 funded based on local community priorities. 



