The federal government will pay back mineral royalties that it withheld from states under the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration.
When sequestration went into effect earlier this year, the Department of the Interior started withholding 5 percent of states' share of the royalties, which are paid on resources like coal and oil extracted from federal lands. For Wyoming, that's amounted to more than $40 million.
On Monday, DOI announced that after a legal review, it's giving the money back.
