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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
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this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
Ω118æSEC. 315. The Forest Service and Bureau of
Land Management may offer for sale salvageable timber in
the Pacific Northwest in fiscal year 1994: Provided, That
for public lands known to contain the Northern spotted owl,
such salvage sales may be offered as long as the offering
of such sale will not render the area unsuitable as habitat
for the Northern spotted owl: Provided further, That timber
salvage activity in spotted owl habitat is to be done in full
compliance with all existing environmental and forest man-
agement laws.
Ω119æSEC. 316. None of the funds provided in this
Act may be used to initiate any new construction or land
acquisition project, or any new operating program which
is estimated to have a total cost in excess of $500,000, unless
such project or program is described in the budget justifica-
tion material submitted to the Congress or is expressly pro-
vided for in this Act or its accompanying reports or is re-
quested through established reprogramming procedures:
Provided further, That this provision shall not apply to
emergency acquisitions or transfers made pursuant to emer-
gency transfer authority.
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Ω120æSEC. 317. None of the funds in this Act may
be used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees
classified as giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum)
which are located on National Forest System or Bureau of
Land Management lands until an environmental assess-
ment has been completed and the giant sequoia management
implementation plan is approved. In any event, timber har-
vest within the identified groves will be done only to en-
hance and perpetuate giant sequoia. There will be no har-
vesting of giant sequoia specimen trees. Removal of hazard,
insect, disease and fire killed giant sequoia other than speci-
men trees is permitted.
Ω121æSEC. 318. None of the funds appropriated in
this Act may be used to implement any increase in govern-
ment housing rental rates in excess of 10 per centum more
than the rental rates which were in effect on September 1,
1993, for such housing.
Ω122æSEC. 319. (a) Section 2374(2) of the Food, Agri-
culture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C.
6612) is amended by inserting ‘‘, forage production’’ after
‘‘recreation’’.
(b) Section 2374(3) of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-
tion, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6612) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(3) The term ‘rural community’ means—
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‘‘(A) any town, township, municipality, or
other similar unit of general purpose local gov-
ernment, or any area represented by a not-for-
profit corporation organized under state law for
any purpose of promoting broad based economic
development, that has a population of not more
than 10,000 individuals (according to the latest
decennial census), that is located within a coun-
ty in which at least 15 percent of the total pri-
mary and secondary labor and proprietor in-
come is derived from forestry, wood products,
and forest-related industries such as recreation,
forage production, and tourism, and that is lo-
cated within the boundary, or within 100 miles
of the boundary, of a national forest; or
‘‘(B) any county that is not contained with-
in a Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by
the United States Office of Management and
Budget, in which at least 15 percent of the total
primary and secondary labor and proprietor in-
come is derived from forestry, wood products,
and forest-related industries such as recreation,
forage production, and tourism, and that is lo-
cated within the boundary, or within 100 miles
of the boundary, of a national forest.
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‘‘(C) any unincorporated area of a county
having a population larger than 22,550 individ-
uals (according to the latest decennial census) in
which at least 15 percent of the total primary
and secondary labor and proprietor income is
derived from forestry, wood products, and forest-
related industries such as recreation, forage pro-
duction, and tourism, and that is located more
than 10 miles from an incorporated municipal-
ity.’’.
(c) Section 2374 of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-
tion, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 6612) is amended
by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
‘‘(5) The term ‘National Forests’ means National
Forest System lands.’’.
Ω123æSEC. 320. None of the funds made available by
this or any other law may be used to revise part 4, 1780,
or 4100 of title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations in
accordance with Part VI, Department of the Interior, Bu-
reau of Land Management or part 222 of title 36 of the
Code of Federal Regulations in accordance with Part V, De-
partment of Agriculture, Forest Service, of volume 58, num-
ber 155, of the Federal Register, dated August 13, 1993,
or to continue any action involving the proposed rule-
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making contained in such Federal Register prior to October
1, 1994.
Ω124æSEC. 321. FOREST
SERVICE
SEPARATION
PAY.—(a) In order to avoid or minimize the need for invol-
untary separations, effective for the period beginning upon
the date of enactment of this Act through and including
September 30, 1994, the Secretary of Agriculture, under
such regulations and subject to such conditions as the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may prescribe, shall have authority
to offer separation pay to employees of the Forest Service
to the same extent the Secretary of Defense is authorized
to offer separation pay to employees of a defense agency
in section 5597 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) In the event that an authority is enacted to offer
separation pay or a voluntary separation incentive similar
to such section 5597 of title 5, United States Code, but ap-
plicable to employees in the executive branch generally, the
authority under subsection (a) shall terminate.
(c) Such payments may be made to employees who
agree, during a continuous 90 day period designated by the
agency head, beginning no earlier than the date of enact-
ment of this Act and ending no later than September 30,
1994, to separate from service with the agency, whether by
retirement or resignation.