Wrangell Sentinel -

The U.S. Department of the Interior is distributing more than $26 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes funding to Alaskan communities in compensation for taxes that could not be levied on federal lands in their jurisdictions during fiscal year 2013. Out of that total, the City and Borough of Wrangell will receive $389,845.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced reauthorization last week of the PILT program which provides monetary compensation to local governments that contain national forests, Bureau of Land Management public lands, national parks and other lands dedicated to water r...