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Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Slide Show
Background Papers on Public Revenue from Mineral Production in Colorado

The list below gives links to detailed information on public revenue from mineral production in Colorado. All files are in the Adobe Acrobat pdf format. It may be easier for you to download the file once to your computer and view it off line.

  1. Mineral Revenues to the Public Sector in Colorado
    This contains a series of 38 graphic slides describing the history of mineral production in Colorado, the public revenues generated, and the distribution of these revenues to state and local governments. A text and table version of this information is available at Mineral Tables.

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  2. Severance Tax Revenue Projections Methods
    This paper describing the economic dynamics of the state severance tax and methods to project state severance tax revenues into the future.

  3. Federal Mineral Lease Distributions in Colorado
    This paper describing the statutory distribution of these funds to Colorado state and local governments with a table of figures and flow chart.

  4. Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program descriptions
    Three programs with tax exempt lands make payments to local governments to off set lost local tax revenue.

  5. Why is Severance Tax so variable?
    A two page brief with charts to explain the structural reasons why severance tax revenue to the state is so variable.

  6. Trend Charts on the Colorado Economy

  7. Websites on Energy and Mineral Development Projects in Western Colorado and Associated Socio-economic Impact Analysis

  8. Department of Local Affairs presentations to the Interim Committee on Severance and Federal Mineral Lease Allocations