PILT payments released to Montana

Montana counties will receive a total of $31.8 million in Payment in Lieu of Taxes or PILT payments from the U.S. Department of the Interior for 2017, including more than a million for Blaine County, a press release from the Department of the Interior said Monday.

“As a kid who grew up in northwest Montana and whose sons graduated from the same high school as I did, I know how important PILT payments are to local communities that have federal lands,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a Whitefish native, said in a press release. “These investments are one of the ways the federal government is fulf...