Economic impacts on Oregon counties of the termination of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (P.L. 106-393)

Abstract

Our analysis in this paper estimates what the impact on Oregon counties would have been if Secure Rural Schools funding had not been continued. We show the SRS payments to counties for 2006-07 and thus the expected annual net loss of revenues if SRS payments had ended. This estimate is net of the harvest-based payments that the counties would continue to receive under the original revenue sharing formulas, assuming that harvest receipts from Federal lands remain at the average of the last eight years.