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AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last week that he would send cities, counties, transit systems, and special-purpose taxing districts $913.3 million in local sales tax allocations for March, 19.8 percent more than in March 2021.

In February, the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, NRI, released its Texas Land Trends program 2022 Landowner Survey to learn more about the needs, preferences, concerns and challenges landowners face regarding everyday management of their land.

AMARILLO—The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is conducting travel surveys in our region. These surveys provide information about local travel patterns. Results of the survey will assist TxDOT and their partners when making decisions about transportation projects.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Texas A&M Forest Service awarded grants to 81 recipients to conduct prescribed burns this year. For the 2022 fiscal year, the agency has approved $522,950 in grant funds to private landowners in Texas with a goal to treat 18,250 acres.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices in Ochiltree and Lipscomb counties will host the annual Northeast Panhandle Crops Conference for area crop producers on March 3. The conference will be held at the Ochiltree County Expo Center, 402 Expo Drive, in Perryton.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks public comment on a draft habitat conservation plan (HCP) and draft environmental assessment covering potential impacts to the lesser prairie-chicken from oil and gas development in the Great Plains.

AUSTIN—The Texas Railroad Commission issued a total of 820 original drilling permits in January 2022 compared to 512 in January 2021. The January 2022 total includes 713 permits to drill new oil or gas wells, nine to reenter plugged wellbores, and 85 for recompletions of existing wellbores.

Canadian Water Well employee Ezequiel Cervantes was elected by his peers to the Texas Ground Water Association board of directors during their annual convention and trade show, which was held Jan. 26-28 in Frisco.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last week that he would send cities, counties, transit systems, and special-purpose taxing districts $1.22 billion in local sales tax allocations for February, 16.4 percent more than in February 2021.