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Extension of payments for rural counties approved by the Senate
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008The U.S. Senate has approved provisions allowing $3.8 billion worth of rural county timber payments within an energy tax bill. Lawmakers had earlier this year discontinued the payments to more than 700 counties nationwide. The payment extension is a federal safety net designed to prop up communities that had relied on logging revenue. The measure now heads over to the House.
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