It is a very important source of funding frequently utilized by eligible entities in Utah to construct capital improvements projects. It is officially called the "Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund Board" but is more commonly just referred to as the "CIB".  Projects, in order to be eligible to apply for funding, must be on the current, county-level-prioritized, Capital Improvements List (please see the one-year and 2-5 year CIL's below) unless the project is necessary because of a bonafide emergency.

The Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund Board provides loans and/or grants to state agencies and subdivisions of the state which have or may be socially or economically impacted by mineral resource development on federal lands.  Under the Federal Mineral Lease Act of 1920, lease holders on public land make royalty payments to the federal government for the development and production of non-metalliferous minerals. 

In Utah, the primary source of these royalties is the commercial production of fossil fuels on federal land held by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.  Since the enactment of the Mineral Lease Act of 1920, a portion of these royalty payments, called mineral lease payments, has been returned to the state in an effort to help mitigate the local impact of energy and mineral developments on federal lands. The state of Utah then allocates 32.5% of the royalties as Permanent Community Impact Funds. The PCIFB will only fund those applications which are submitted by an eligible applicant for an eligible project.

The Utah statute creating the Board specifically defines eligible applicants as any of the following: counties, special service districts, cities, special improvement districts, towns, water conservancy districts, school districts, water or sewer improvement districts, building authorities, and housing authorities. 

WHAT PROJECTS WERE FUNDED LAST YEAR?
Please click on this LINK to download a PDF file which provides a list of projects funded by the CIB Utah in FY2011 (and also from 2007-2010).

As mentioned earlier, in order to be threshold eligible for PCIFB funding, a project must have been included in the region's county prioritized CIB capital improvements lists.   The following are the current prioritized Capital Improvement Lists, for each of the five southwestern Utah counties, for PCIFB funding.   A meeting was held in each of the five counties in mid-November 2010 wherein the participants, by concensus of the attendees, prioritized the 2011 (1 Year) Capital Improvement List for that respective county. 

The following links will display the 1 year (2011) Prioritized Capital Improvement Lists for southwestern Utah counties that were submitted to the Permanent Community Impact Fund Board on December 1, 2010:

BEAVER COUNTY 1yr PRIORITIZED LIST

GARFIELD COUNTY 1yr PRIORITIZED LIST

IRON COUNTY 1yr PRIORITIZED LIST

KANE COUNTY 1 yr PRIORITIZED LIST

WASHINGTON COUNTY 1yr PRIORITIZED LIST