ATTORNEY GENERAL SUTHERS DEMANDS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT END SEQUESTRATION OF FUNDS FOR RURAL AREAS

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    By Colorado RealEstateRama -

    DENVER – September 25, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has written to U.S. Secretary of the Department Agriculture and all members of the Colorado Congressional delegation demanding that the federal government end the sequestration of payments made to western states that are available to rural counties with national forest lands. The funds are owed to the states in lieu of revenue from timber sales on federal lands and help finance rural school programs, roads and wildfire-related education or wildland fire mitigation assistance to homeowners.

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