33 STATES RECEIVE RECORD $1 BILLION IN 2001 AS SHARE OF MINERAL REVENUES LOCATED ON FEDERAL LANDS

33 States Receive Record $1 Billion in 2001
as Share of Mineral Revenues Located on Federal Lands

The Minerals Management Service distributed a record $1,064,332,777 to 33 states as their 2001 share of revenues from mineral leases. The money represents the states’ share of collected bonuses, rents and royalties on federal public lands located within their borders and adjacent to their shores.

A state is entitled to a share of the mineral revenues collected from federal lands located within that state’s boundaries. For the majority of federal lands, states and the federal government share the revenues: 50 percent to the state, 40 percent to the Reclamation Fund for water projects, and 10 percent to the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury. One exception, Alaska, gets a 90-percent share, as prescribed by the Alaska Statehood Act.

Certain coastal states with federal offshore 8(g) tracts adjacent to their seaward boundaries receive 27 percent of those mineral royalties as well. The remaining 73 percent, as well as revenues from other offshore leases, go to the General Fund, the Historic Preservation Fund and the Land and Water Conservation Fund of the U.S. Treasury.

Annual distributions vary according to production and market prices. $800 million was distributed in 2000, $541 million in 1999 and $559 million in 1998.

Alabama	$17,684,729.11	Louisiana	$31,149,291.23	Ohio	$220,029.26
Alaska	$6,696,967.03	Michigan	$472,993.79	Oklahoma	$2,697,696.27
Arizona	$96,786.58	Minnesota	$12,820.62	Oregon	$27,758.50
Arkansas	$1,778,270.75	Mississippi	$1,423,557.22	Pennsylvania	$24,884.77
California	$27,961,529.91	Missouri	$599,411.75	South Dakota	$517,035.47
Colorado	$64,006,287.64	Montana	$31,217,392.55	Texas	$16,877,810.90
Florida	$1,604.58	Nebraska	$12,878.84	Utah	$47,505,917.91
Idaho	$4,325,993.32	Nevada	$3,400,515.18	Virginia	$140,875.98
Illinois	$105,378.08	New Mexico	$364,834,301.46	Washington	$2,253,501.50
Kansas	$2,176,334.63	North Carolina	$118.52	West Virginia	$290,352.84
Kentucky	$78,287.19	North Dakota	$6,176,620.60	Wyoming	$429,564,843.06
				2001 total	$1,064,332,777.00

Alabama	$14,935,610.13	Louisiana	$19,002,684.40	Oklahoma	$2,524,092.05
Alaska	$5,407,073.73	Michigan	$479,530.02	Oregon	$45,109.07
Arizona	$62,836.48	Minnesota	$12,536.11	Pennsylvania	$20,191.04
Arkansas	$1,430,018.03	Mississippi	$1,162,688.16	South Dakota	$536,605.57
California	$24,882,585.36	Missouri	$877,602.56	Tennessee	$6,582.31
Colorado	$47,123,514.85	Montana	$21,965,850.59	Texas	$16,867,520.93
Florida	$7,972.01	Nebraska	$15,139.06	Utah	$37,184,986.28
Georgia	$54.51	Nevada	$2,905,398.33	Virginia	$155,757.47
Idaho	$2,188,283.72	New Mexico	$258,585,797.99	Washington	$1,677,029.22
Illinois	$139,593.58	North Carolina	$118.51	West Virginia	$259,214.44
Kansas	$1,474,974.03	North Dakota	$4,639,925.36	Wyoming	$333,553,356.79
Kentucky	$47,470.66	Ohio	$137,721.51
				2000 total	$800,315,424.86

Through its Minerals Revenue Management, MMS is responsible for collecting, accounting for, auditing and disbursing revenues associated with mineral leases on federal onshore and offshore lands. It has similar responsibilities for mineral leases on Indian lands.

MMS is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation’s oil, natural gas and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf in federal offshore waters. The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses mineral revenues from federal and Indian leases. These revenues totaled nearly $10 billion last year and more than $120 billion since the agency was created in 1982. Annually, nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the acquisition and development of state and federal park and recreation lands.

FOR RELEASE:	February 4, 2002	Barney Congdon
		(504) 736-2595
		Caryl Fagot
		(504) 736-2590
		Debra Winbush
		(504) 736-2597