Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§695m Annual Percentage Payments of Net Revenues From Leases of Klamath Project Lands on Pro Rata Basis; Limitation on Payments; Priority of Use of Net Revenues

Title 16 › CHAPTER 6 — GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION › § 695m

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must pay 25% of the net income each year from leasing federal lands inside the Lower Klamath and Tule Lake wildlife refuges to the counties where those refuges lie. Payments start for each full fiscal year after September 2, 1964 and are split among the counties based on how many refuge acres are in each county. A county’s payment per acre cannot be more than 50% of that county’s average per-acre property tax on similar private land, as set by the Secretary. County payments must not reduce amounts already promised to the Tulelake Irrigation District or to the Klamath Drainage District. The money is used in this order: first to satisfy amounts already committed to Tulelake Irrigation District, second to pay $197,315 to the Klamath Drainage District, and third to pay the counties.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §695m

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Subject to conditions hereafter prescribed, and pursuant to such regulations as may be issued by the Secretary, 25 per centum of the net revenues collected during each fiscal year from the leasing of Klamath project reserved Federal lands within the Executive order boundaries of the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge shall be paid annually by the Secretary, without further authorization, for each full fiscal year after September 2, 1964 to the counties in which such refuges are located, such payments to be made on a pro rata basis to each county based upon the refuge acreage in each county: Provided, That the total annual payment per acre to each county shall not exceed 50 per centum of the average per acre tax levied on similar lands in private ownership in each county, as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That no such payments shall be made which will reduce the credits or the payments to be made pursuant to contractual obligations of the United States with the Tulelake Irrigation District or the payments to the Klamath Drainage District as full reimbursement for the construction of irrigation facilities within said district, and that the priority of use of the total net revenues collected from the leasing of the lands described in this section shall be (1) to credit or pay from each revenues to the Tulelake Irrigation District the amounts already committed to such payment or credit; (2) to pay from such revenues to the Klamath Drainage District the sum of $197,315; and (3) to pay from such revenues to the counties the amounts prescribed by this section.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 695m

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102