the project can be paid for by a special assessment not to 

 exceed 3 mills on all taxable real property within the 

 designated project area. 



Conservation districts have authority to charge fees 

 for services they provide, but this has been done only in 

 special cases. 



Historically districts operated equipment from which 

 revenues were derived, but since private contractors now 

 provide many of these services, revenues from this source 

 are limited. 



State Sources: 



The state legislature in recent years has appropriated 

 $100,000 a year, of which by law 75 percent is distributed 

 according to acreage and 25 percent according to need. 

 However, in place of the $100,000 the 1981 Legislature 

 has allocated 0.5 of 1 percent of the coal tax to be made 

 available to districts for projects based on need. (The 

 Resource Conservation Advisory Council will develop 

 guidelines to allocate the money.) This will amount to ap- 

 proximately $240,600 for 1982 and $275,000 annually for 

 1983-1985. 



The state Renewable Resource Development (RRD) 

 fund is available for district-sponsored projects. Table 1 

 shows project proposals funded by the 1981 Legislature 

 and table 2 shows reallocation of RRD funds. 



TABLE 1, 



Recipient 



Ruby Valley CD 



Cascade and Teton CDs 



Triangle CD 

 CDD 



CDD 



Water Resources 

 Division, DNRC 



DHLS 



PRO)ECT PROPOSALS FUNDED 

 BY 1981 LEGISLATURE 



Amount of Funding Purpose 



$490,000 



300,000 



275,000 

 350,000 



30,000 



350,000 

 41,000 



East Bench gravity 

 sprinkler project 



Muddy Creek water-quality 

 project 



Saline seep control 



Continuation of Rangeland 

 Improvement loan program 



Leafy spurge control 



Small water-development loans 



CDs water-quality project 

 feasibility; project proposals 

 studies 



Total 



37,266,642 



91,164,000 



TABLE 2. REALLOCATION OF RENEWABLE RESOURCE 



DEVELOPMENT FUNDS BY 1981 LEGISLATURE 



EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1983 



Type of Project 



Water 



Agriculture 



Forestry 



Water reservations (CDs) 



Miscellaneous 



Percent of funding 



40 

 20 

 20 

 10 

 10 



Amount of Funding 



$500,000 

 250,000 

 250,000 

 125,000 

 125,000 



