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BOOK iOG PAGE � 7 ON MOTION by Commissioner Eggert, SECONDED BY Commissioner Adams, the Board unanimously made the above changes to the agenda. 5. PRESENTATION OF ANNUAL REVENUE SHARING CHECK FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BY PAUL TRITAIK Mr. Paul Tritaik read the following letter dated May 5, 1998 into the record and presented Chairman Tippin with a check in the amount of $17,097: T,.,� United States Department of the "',�9 0r.a :ii ipV.,-8i;3 Ti FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE �'�q M "�s•, 1875 Century Boulevard On. Atlanta. Georgia 30345 ar� IN RMY TO: May 5, 1998 B Deputy C rk LA -Pay== to Counties Dear County/Parish Official: This is in reference to the anatiai Refuge Revenue Sharing Payment you. receive from the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). We regret to inform you that the Service's Finance Center, in Denver, Colorado, was unable to initiate electronic funds transfer of fiscal year 1997 payments, as previously planned, due to computer software restrictions. The Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-134) mandates all Federal payments be converted to electronic funds transfer by January 1, 1999. As a result, the Finance Center is striving to meet the deadline for completion of electronic transfer of fiscal year 1998 payments. Since you completed and forwarded your initial ACE Vendor/Miscellaneous Payment Enrollment form to us, should your bank account number or Taxpayer Identification Number change, please provide a new ACE form (blank enclosed) so the Service can update your file and continue providing uninterrupted payments. The Service is pleased to present MmotArt R%vER County/Parish its refuge revenue sharing bard copy check in the amount of S 17, 09 -7. 00 This payment is for fiscal year 1997 (October 1, 1996 - September 30, 1997) and is authorized by the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act of 1978, Public Law 95-469. Funds credited to the National Wildlife Refuge Fund are derived from income generated nationally on Service lands, such as oil and gas revenues, sale of timber products, gravel. grazing receipts, and other products. The Act authorizes payment to counties in which Service -owned lands are located, based upon the following methods of computation, whichever is gggte . (1) Three-fourths of 1 percent (0.75 percent) of the fair market (appraised) value of fee lands located within the county/parish. (2) Seventy-five cents per acre of the fee lands located within the county/parish. (3) Twenty-five percent of net receipts collected by the Service for certain activities permitted on fee lands located within the county/parish. This year's fund did not contain sufficient receipts to make full payment to counties as computed above. Although Congress, as authorized, did appropriate additional funds, the amount August 25, 1998 2