order to prevent potentially damaging and deadly 
floods. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON TIMBER SALES TO PROTECT FED-
ERAL PUBLIC LANDS. 
(a) PROHIBITION ON NEW TIMBER SALES.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, effective as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act, no timber sales shall 
be prepared, advertised, offered, or awarded on Federal 
public lands and, except as provided in section 5, no com-
mercial logging shall occur on Federal public lands. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The use of forest materials for 
noncommercial use, including personal-use permits under 
the personal use component of the forest management pro-
gram of the Forest Service or an equivalent program of 
the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Serv-
ice, or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to the 
extent allowed under existing law, is not prohibited by sub-
section (a), but any such use of forest materials for non-
commercial use must be consistent with section 7, includ-
ing subsection (k) of such section. 
(c) NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES.—Nothing contained 
in this Act shall be construed to modify, amend, or breach 
any treaty in existence on the date of enactment of this 
Act with any Native American tribe.
SEC. 5. EFFECT OF PROHIBITION ON EXISTING TIMBER 
SALE CONTRACTS. 
(a) REMAINING SALVAGE RIDER SALES.—Notwith-
standing any outstanding judicial order or administrative 
proceeding interpreting section 2001 of Public Law 104– 
19 (109 Stat. 240; 16 U.S.C. 1611 note), the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall im-
mediately suspend each timber sale or activity that was 
being undertaken in whole or in part under the authority 
provided in such section. 
(b) ROADLESS AREAS
AND LATE-SUCCESSIONAL/ 
OLD GROWTH FORESTS.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall immediately suspend each tim-
ber sale in any roadless area or late-successional/old 
growth forest on Federal public lands. 
(c) PHASE-OUT PERIOD AUTHORIZED.—There shall 
be a 2-year period to phase out those timber sale contracts 
in existence as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
The phase-out period shall begin on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. Any remaining timber sales on Federal 
public lands shall be automatically suspended upon the ex-
piration of the phase-out period. Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no commercial logging shall occur 
anywhere on Federal public lands after the end of the 
phase-out period.
(d) EARLY TERMINATION.—For all timber sales sus-
pended under subsection (a), subsection (b), and sub-
section (c) of this subsection, the Secretary concerned 
shall— 
(1) exercise any provision of the original con-
tract that authorizes termination and payment of 
specified damages; or 
(2) terminate the contract to avoid adverse ef-
fects on the environment or natural resources. 
(e) PAYMENT FOR TIMBER SALE CONTRACTS RELIN-
QUISHED.—Any claim, whether as a result of a judgment 
or an agreement against the Federal Government, arising 
from termination of any timber sale contract under sub-
section (d) of this subsection, may be— 
(1) paid from funds made available under sec-
tion 1304 of title 31, United States Code, and shall 
not require reimbursement under section 13(c) of 
the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 
612(c)); 
(2) offset by forgiveness of a Federal Govern-
ment loan or loan guarantee; 
(3) paid through funds appropriated for the 
purpose; or 
(4) paid through the transfer of funds from 
Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management ac-
counts for forest management, road construction, or 
general administration for such purposes. 
(f) DISPUTES.—Any claim by a purchaser against the 
Federal Government relating to a contract terminated 
under this section shall be subject to the Contract Dis-
putes Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) CALCULATION OF TAXPAYER LOSSES FROM LOG-
GING.—The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with 
the Secretary of the Interior, shall determine the average 
amount of Federal funds appropriated annually from the 
General Fund of the Treasury over the five fiscal years 
immediately preceding the date of the enactment of this 
Act for commercial logging and commercial logging-re-
lated activities on Federal public lands. In making this 
determination, the Secretary shall include amounts ex-
pended for the following, using estimates when necessary: 
(1) Timber sales management. 
(2) Forest-land vegetation management. 
(3) Land management planning, inventory, and 
monitoring related to commercial logging. 
(4) Research related to commercial logging. 
(5) The portion of the forest roads and road 
maintenance program related to commercial logging.
(6) General administration expenses related to 
commercial logging. 
(7) Landline location related to commercial log-
ging. 
(8) Law enforcement related to commercial log-
ging. 
(9) The portion of the forest fire fighting and 
prevention program related to commercial logging. 
(10) The portion of any other activities related 
to commercial logging. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
this Act in the fiscal years beginning after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, but not to exceed for any fiscal 
year two-thirds of the amount calculated in subsection (a) 
as the taxpayer losses from logging. 
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Not more than 
ten percent of the funds appropriated or allocated to carry 
out sections 7 and 8 may be reserved for the administra-
tion of activities authorized under those sections. 
SEC. 7. NATURAL HERITAGE RESTORATION. 
(a) GENERAL REQUIREMENT.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, agency projects or programs to re-
store biological diversity and ecological processes on Fed-
eral public lands shall be carried out in a manner con-