Calendar No. 257
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 858
[Report No. 105–138]
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a
pilot project on designated lands within Plumas,
Lassen, and Tahoe National Forests in the State
of California to demonstrate the effectiveness of
the resource management activities proposed by
the Quincy Library Group and to amend current
land and resource management plans for these
national forests to consider the incorporation of
these resource management activities.
NOVEMBER 4, 1997
Reported with an amendment
II
Calendar No. 257
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 858
[Report No. 105–138]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 10, 1997
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
NOVEMBER 4, 1997
Reported by Mr. MURKOWSKI, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enactng clause and insert the part printed in italic]
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot
project on designated lands within Plumas, Lassen, and
Tahoe National Forests in the State of California to
demonstrate the effectiveness of the resource manage-
ment activities proposed by the Quincy Library Group
and to amend current land and resource management
plans for these national forests to consider the incorpora-
tion of these resource management activities.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Quincy Library Group
Forest Recovery and Economic Stability Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. PILOT PROJECT FOR PLUMAS, LASSEN, AND TAHOE
NATIONAL FORESTS TO IMPLEMENT QUINCY
LIBRARY GROUP PROPOSAL.
(a) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘Quincy Library Group-Community Stability Pro-
posal’’ means the agreement by a coalition of representa-
tives of fisheries, timber, environmental, county govern-
ment, citizen groups, and local communities that formed
in northern California to develop a resource management
program that promotes ecologic and economic health for
certain Federal lands and communities in the Sierra Ne-
vada area. Such proposal includes the map entitled
‘‘QUINCY LIBRARY GROUP Community Stability Pro-
posal’’, dated June 1993, and prepared by VESTRA Re-
sources of Redding, California.
(b) PILOT PROJECT REQUIRED.—
(1) PILOT PROJECT AND PURPOSE.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture (in this section referred to as
the ‘‘Secretary’’), acting through the Forest Service
and after completion of an environmental impact
statement (a record of decision for which shall be
adopted within 200 days), shall conduct a pilot
project on the Federal lands described in paragraph
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(2) to implement and demonstrate the effectiveness
of the resource management activities described in
subsection (d) and the other requirements of this
section, as recommended in the Quincy Library
Group-Community Stability Proposal.
(2) PILOT PROJECT AREA.—The Secretary shall
conduct the pilot project on the Federal lands within
Plumas National Forest, Lassen National Forest,
and the Sierraville Ranger District of Tahoe Na-
tional Forest in the State of California designated as
‘‘Available for Group Selection’’ on the map entitled
‘‘QUINCY LIBRARY GROUP Community Stability
Proposal’’, dated June 1993 (in this section referred
to as the ‘‘pilot project area’’). Such map shall be
on file and available for inspection in the appro-
priate offices of the Forest Service.
(c) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN LANDS, RIPARIAN PRO-
TECTION AND COMPLIANCE.—
(1) EXCLUSION.—All spotted owl habitat areas
and protected activity centers located within the
pilot project area designated under subsection (b)(2)
will be deferred from resource management activities
required under subsection (d) and timber harvesting
during the term of the pilot project.
(2) RIPARIAN PROTECTION.—
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The Scientific Analysis
Team guidelines for riparian system protection
described in subparagraph (B) shall apply to all
resource
management
activities
conducted
under subsection (d) and all timber harvesting
activities that occur in the pilot project area
during the term of the pilot project.
(B) GUIDELINES DESCRIBED.—The guide-
lines referred to in subparagraph (A) are those
in the document entitled ‘‘Viability Assessments
and Management Considerations for Species
Associated
with
Late-Successional
and
Old-
Growth Forests of the Pacific Northwest’’, a
Forest Service research document dated March
1993 and co-authored by the Scientific Analysis
Team, including Dr. Jack Ward Thomas.
(3) COMPLIANCE.—All resource management
activities required by subsection (d) shall be imple-
mented to the extent consistent with applicable Fed-
eral law and the standards and guidelines for the
conservation of the California spotted owl as set
forth in the California Spotted Owl Sierran Provence
Interim Guidelines, or the subsequently issued final
guidelines whichever is in effect.
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(d) RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—During
the term of the pilot project, the Secretary shall implement
and carry out the following resource management activi-
ties on an acreage basis on the Federal lands included
within the pilot project area designated under subsection
(b)(2):
(1) FUELBREAK CONSTRUCTION.—Construction
of a strategic system of defensible fuel profile zones,
including shaded fuelbreaks, utilizing thinning, indi-
vidual tree selection, and other methods of vegeta-
tion management consistent with the Quincy Library
Group-Community Stability Proposal, on not less
than 40,000, but not more than 60,000, acres per
year.
(2) GROUP SELECTION AND INDIVIDUAL TREE
SELECTION.—Utilization of group selection and indi-
vidual tree selection uneven-aged forest management
prescriptions
described
in
the
Quincy
Library
Group-Community Stability Proposal to achieve a
desired future condition of all-age, multistory, fire
resilient forests as follows:
(A) GROUP SELECTION.—Group selection
on an average acreage of .57 percent of the
pilot project area land each year of the pilot
project.
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(B) INDIVIDUAL TREE SELECTION.—Indi-
vidual tree selection may also be utilized within
the pilot project area.
(3) TOTAL
ACREAGE.—The total acreage on
which resource management activities are imple-
mented
under
this
subsection
shall
not
exceed
70,000 acres each year.
(4) RIPARIAN MANAGEMENT.—A program of ri-
parian management, including wide protection zones
and riparian restoration projects, consistent with ri-
parian protection guidelines in subsection (c)(2)(B).
(e) COST-EFFECTIVENESS.—In conducting the pilot
project, Secretary shall use the most cost-effective means
available, as determined by the Secretary, to implement
resource management activities described in subsection
(d).
(f) FUNDING.—
(1) SOURCE
OF
FUNDS.—In conducting the
pilot project, the Secretary shall use, subject to the
relevant reprogramming guidelines of the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations—
(A) those funds specifically provided to the
Forest Service by the Secretary to implement
resource management activities according to the
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Quincy
Library
Group-Community
Stability
Proposal; and
(B) excess funds that are allocated for the
administration and management of Plumas Na-
tional Forest, Lassen National Forest, and the
Sierraville Ranger District of Tahoe National
Forest.
(2)
PROHIBITION
ON
USE
OF
CERTAIN
FUNDS.—The Secretary may not conduct the pilot
project using funds appropriated for any other unit
of the National Forest System.
(3)
FLEXIBILITY.—Subject
to
normal
re-
programming guidelines, during the term of the pilot
project, the forest supervisors of Plumas National
Forest, Lassen National Forest, and Tahoe National
Forest may allocate and use all accounts that con-
tain excess funds and all available excess funds for
the administration and management of Plumas Na-
tional Forest, Lassen National Forest, and the
Sierraville Ranger District of Tahoe National Forest
to perform the resource management activities de-
scribed in subsection (d).
(4) RESTRICTION.—The Secretary or the forest
supervisors, as the case may be, shall not utilize au-
thority provided under paragraphs (1)(B) and (3) if,
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in their judgment, doing so will limit other nontim-
ber related multiple use activities for which such
funds were available.
(5) OVERHEAD.—Of amounts available to carry
out this section—
(A) not more than 12 percent may be used
or allocated for general administration or other
overhead; and
(B) at least 88 percent shall be used to im-
plement and carry out activities required by
this section.
(6)
AUTHORIZED
SUPPLEMENTAL
FUNDS.—
There are authorized to be appropriated to imple-
ment and carry out the pilot project such sums as
are necessary.
(7) BASELINE FUNDS.—Amounts available for
resource management activities authorized under
subsection (d) shall at a minimum include existing
baseline funding levels.
(g) TERM OF PILOT PROJECT.—The Secretary shall
conduct the pilot project during the period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on the
later of the following:
(1) The date on which the Secretary completes
amendment or revision of the land and resource
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management plans for Plumas National Forest,
Lassen National Forest, and Tahoe National Forest
pursuant to subsection (i).
(2) The date that is five years after the date of
the commencement of the pilot project.
(h) CONSULTATION.—(1) Each statement required
by subsection (b)(1) shall be prepared in consultation with
the Quincy Library Group.
(2) CONTRACTING.—The Forest Service, subject to
the availability of appropriations, may carry out any (or
all) of the requirements of this section using private con-
tracts.
(i) CORRESPONDING FOREST PLAN AMENDMENTS.—
Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Regional Forester for Region 5 shall initiate the
process to amend or revise the land and resource manage-
ment plans for Plumas National Forest, Lassen National
Forest, and Tahoe National Forest. The process shall in-
clude preparation of at least one alternative that—
(1) incorporates the pilot project and area des-
ignations made by subsection (b), the resource man-
agement activities described in subsection (d), and
other aspects of the Quincy Library Group Commu-
nity Stability Proposal; and
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(2) makes other changes warranted by the anal-
yses conducted in compliance with section 102(2) of
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4332(2)), section 6 of the Forest and Range-
land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16
U.S.C. 1604), and other applicable laws.
(j) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than February 28
of each year during the term of the pilot project, the
Secretary after consultation with the Quincy Library
Group, shall submit to Congress a report on the sta-
tus of the pilot project. The report shall include at
least the following:
(A) A complete accounting of the use of
funds made available under subsection (f)(1)(A)
until such funds are fully expended.
(B) A complete accounting of the use of
funds and accounts made available under sub-
section (f)(1) for the previous fiscal year, in-
cluding a schedule of the amounts drawn from
each account used to perform resource manage-
ment activities described in subsection (d).
(C) A description of total acres treated for
each of the resource management activities re-
quired under subsection (d), forest health im-
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provements, fire risk reductions, water yield in-
creases,
and
other
natural
resources-related
benefits achieved by the implementation of the
resource management activities described in
subsection (d).
(D) A description of the economic benefits
to local communities achieved by the implemen-
tation of the pilot project.
(E) A comparison of the revenues gen-
erated by, and costs incurred in, the implemen-
tation of the resource management activities de-
scribed in subsection (d) on the Federal lands
included in the pilot project area with the reve-
nues and costs during each of the fiscal years
1992 through 1997 for timber management of
such lands before their inclusion in the pilot
project.
(F) A schedule for the resource manage-
ment activities to be undertaken in the pilot
project area during the calendar year.
(2)
LIMITATION
ON
EXPENDITURES.—The
amount of Federal funds expended on each annual
report
under
this
subsection
shall
not
exceed
$50,000.
(k) FINAL REPORT.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning after completion
of 6 months of the second year of the pilot project,
the Secretary shall compile a science-based assess-
ment of, and report on, the effectiveness of the pilot
project in meeting the stated goals of this pilot
project. Such assessment and report—
(A) shall include watershed monitoring of
lands treated under this section, that should ad-
dress the following issues on a priority basis:
timing of water releases, water quality changes,
and water yield changes over the short and long
term in the pilot project area;
(B) shall be compiled in consultation with
the Quincy Library Group; and
(C) shall be submitted to the Congress by
July 1, 2002.
(2)
LIMITATIONS
ON
EXPENDITURES.—The
amount of Federal funds expended for the assess-
ment and report under this subsection, other than
for watershed monitoring under paragraph (1)(A),
shall not exceed $150,000. The amount of Federal
funds expended for watershed monitoring under
paragraph (1)(A) shall not exceed $75,000 for each
of fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002.
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(l) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.—Nothing in
this section exempts the pilot project from any Federal
environmental law.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Quincy Library Group
Forest Recovery and Economic Stability Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. PILOT PROJECT FOR PLUMAS, LASSEN, AND TAHOE
NATIONAL FORESTS TO IMPLEMENT QUINCY
LIBRARY GROUP PROPOSAL.
(a) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘Quincy Library Group-Community Stability Pro-
posal’’ means the agreement by a coalition of representa-
tives of fisheries, timber, environmental, county govern-
ment, citizen groups, and local communities that formed
in northern California to develop a resource management
program that promotes ecologic and economic health for cer-
tain Federal lands and communities in the Sierra Nevada
area. Such proposal includes the map entitled ‘‘QUINCY
LIBRARY GROUP Community Stability Proposal’’, dated
October 12, 1993, and prepared by VESTRA Resources of
Redding, California.
(b) PILOT PROJECT REQUIRED.—
(1) PILOT
PROJECT
AND
PURPOSE.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture (in this section referred to as the
‘‘Secretary’’), acting through the Forest Service and
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after completion of an environmental impact state-
ment (a record of decision for which shall be adopted
within 300 days), shall conduct a pilot project on the
Federal lands described in paragraph (2) to imple-
ment and demonstrate the effectiveness of the resource
management activities described in subsection (d) and
the other requirements of this section, as recommended
in the Quincy Library Group-Community Stability
Proposal.
(2) PILOT PROJECT AREA.—The Secretary shall
conduct the pilot project on the Federal lands within
Plumas National Forest, Lassen National Forest, and
the Sierraville Ranger District of Tahoe National
Forest in the State of California designated as
‘‘Available for Group Selection’’ on the map entitled
‘‘QUINCY LIBRARY GROUP Community Stability
Proposal’’, dated October 12, 1993 (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘pilot project area’’). Such map shall
be on file and available for inspection in the appro-
priate offices of the Forest Service.
(c) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN LANDS, RIPARIAN PRO-
TECTION AND COMPLIANCE.—
(1) EXCLUSION.—All spotted owl habitat areas
and protected activity centers located within the pilot
project area designated under subsection (b)(2) will be
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grazing is being conducted in the specific loca-
tion at which the Scientific Analysis Team
guidelines are being applied to an activity under
subsection (d).
(3) COMPLIANCE.—All resource management ac-
tivities required by subsection (d) shall be imple-
mented to the extent consistent with applicable Fed-
eral law and the standards and guidelines for the
conservation of the California spotted owl as set forth
in the California Spotted Owl Sierran Provence In-
terim Guidelines or the subsequently issued guide-
lines, whichever are in effect.
(4) ROADLESS
AREA
PROTECTION.—The Re-
gional Forester for Region 5 shall direct that any re-
source management activity required by subsection
(d)(1) and (2), all road building, all timber harvest-
ing activities, and any riparian management under
subsection (d)(4) that utilizes road construction or
timber harvesting shall not be conducted on Federal
lands within the Plumas National Forest, Lassen Na-
tional Forest, and the Sierraville Ranger District of
the Tahoe National Forest that are designated as ei-
ther ‘‘Off Base’’ or ‘‘Deferred’’ on the map referred to
in subsection (a). Such direction shall be effective
during the term of the pilot project.
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(d) RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—During
the term of the pilot project, the Secretary shall implement
and carry out the following resource management activities
on an acreage basis on the Federal lands included within
the pilot project area designated under subsection (b)(2):
(1) FUELBREAK
CONSTRUCTION.—Construction
of a strategic system of defensible fuel profile zones,
including shaded fuelbreaks, utilizing thinning, indi-
vidual tree selection, and other methods of vegetation
management consistent with the Quincy Library
Group-Community Stability Proposal, on not less
than 40,000, but not more than 60,000, acres per
year.
(2) GROUP
SELECTION
AND
INDIVIDUAL
TREE
SELECTION.—Utilization of group selection and indi-
vidual tree selection uneven-aged forest management
prescriptions described in the Quincy Library Group-
Community Stability Proposal to achieve a desired
future condition of all-age, multistory, fire resilient
forests as follows:
(A) GROUP SELECTION.—Group selection on
an average acreage of .57 percent of the pilot
project area land each year of the pilot project.
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(B) INDIVIDUAL
TREE
SELECTION.—Indi-
vidual tree selection may also be utilized within
the pilot project area.
(3) TOTAL
ACREAGE.—The total acreage on
which resource management activities are imple-
mented under this subsection shall not exceed 70,000
acres each year.
(4) RIPARIAN MANAGEMENT.—A program of ri-
parian management, including wide protection zones
and riparian restoration projects, consistent with ri-
parian protection guidelines in subsection (c)(2)(B).
(e) COST-EFFECTIVENESS.—In conducting the pilot
project, Secretary shall use the most cost-effective means
available, as determined by the Secretary, to implement re-
source management activities described in subsection (d).
(f) FUNDING.—
(1) SOURCE OF FUNDS.—In conducting the pilot
project, the Secretary shall use, subject to the relevant
reprogramming guidelines of the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations—
(A) those funds specifically provided to the
Forest Service by the Secretary to implement re-
source management activities according to the
Quincy Library Group-Community Stability
Proposal; and
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(B) year-end excess funds that are allocated
for the administration and management of
Plumas National Forest, Lassen National Forest,
and the Sierraville Ranger District of Tahoe Na-
tional Forest.
(2) PROHIBITION ON USE OF CERTAIN FUNDS.—
The Secretary may not conduct the pilot project using
funds appropriated for any other unit of the National
Forest System.
(3) FLEXIBILITY.—Subject to normal reprogram-
ming guidelines, during the term of the pilot project,
the forest supervisors of Plumas National Forest,
Lassen National Forest, and Tahoe National Forest
may allocate and use all accounts that contain year-
end excess funds and all available excess funds for the
administration and management of Plumas National
Forest, Lassen National Forest, and the Sierraville
Ranger District of Tahoe National Forest to perform
the resource management activities described in sub-
section (d).
(4) RESTRICTION.—The Secretary or the forest
supervisors, as the case may be, shall not utilize au-
thority provided under paragraphs (1)(B) and (3) if,
in their judgment, doing so will limit other nontimber
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related multiple use activities for which such funds
were available.
(5) OVERHEAD.—The Secretary shall seek to en-
sure that of amounts available to carry out this sec-
tion—
(A) not more than 12 percent is used or al-
located for general administration or other over-
head; and
(B) at least 88 percent is used to implement
and carry out activities required by this section.
(6) AUTHORIZED SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to implement and
carry out the pilot project such sums as are necessary.
(7) BASELINE
FUNDS.—Amounts available for
resource management activities authorized under sub-
section (d) shall at a minimum include existing base-
line funding levels.
(g) TERM OF PILOT PROJECT.—The Secretary shall
conduct the pilot project until the earlier of: (1) the date
on which the Secretary completes amendment or revision
of the land and resource management plans for the Plumas
National Forest, Lassen National Forest, and Tahoe Na-
tional Forest; or (2) five years after the date of the com-
mencement of the pilot project.
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(h) CONSULTATION.—(1) The statement required by
subsection (b)(1) shall be prepared in consultation with in-
terested members of the public, including the Quincy Li-
brary Group.
(2) CONTRACTING.—The Forest Service, subject to the
availability of appropriations, may carry out any (or all)
of the requirements of this section using private contracts.
(i) CORRESPONDING FOREST PLAN AMENDMENTS.—
Within 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Regional Forester for Region 5 shall initiate the process
to amend or revise the land and resource management plans
for Plumas National Forest, Lassen National Forest, and
Tahoe National Forest. The process shall include prepara-
tion of at least one alternative that—
(1) incorporates the pilot project and area des-
ignations made by subsection (b), the resource man-
agement activities described in subsection (d), and
other aspects of the Quincy Library Group-Commu-
nity Stability Proposal; and
(2) makes other changes warranted by the analy-
ses conducted in compliance with section 102(2) of the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4332(2)), section 6 of the Forest and Range-
land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16
U.S.C. 1604), and other applicable laws.
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(j) STATUS REPORTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than February 28 of
each year during the term of the pilot project, the Sec-
retary shall submit to Congress a report on the status
of the pilot project. The report shall include at least
the following:
(A) A complete accounting of the use of
funds made available under subsection (f)(1)(A)
until such funds are fully expended.
(B) A complete accounting of the use of
funds and accounts made available under sub-
section (f)(1) for the previous fiscal year, includ-
ing a schedule of the amounts drawn from each
account used to perform resource management
activities described in subsection (d).
(C) A description of total acres treated for
each of the resource management activities re-
quired under subsection (d), forest health im-
provements, fire risk reductions, water yield in-
creases, and other natural resources-related bene-
fits achieved by the implementation of the re-
source management activities described in sub-
section (d).
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(D) A description of the economic benefits to
local communities achieved by the implementa-
tion of the pilot project.
(E) A comparison of the revenues generated
by, and costs incurred in, the implementation of
the resource management activities described in
subsection (d) on the Federal lands included in
the pilot project area with the revenues and costs
during each of the fiscal years 1992 through
1997 for timber management of such lands before
their inclusion in the pilot project.
(F) A proposed schedule for the resource
management activities to be undertaken in the
pilot project area during the 1-year period begin-
ning on the date of submittal of the report.
(G) A description of any adverse environ-
mental impacts from the pilot project.
(2) 
LIMITATION
ON
EXPENDITURES.—The
amount of Federal funds expended on each annual re-
port under this subsection shall not exceed $125,000.
(k) FINAL REPORT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish
an independent scientific panel to review and report
on whether, and to what extent, implementation of the
pilot project under this section achieved the goals stat-
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ed in the Quincy Library Group-Community Stabil-
ity Proposal, including improved ecological health
and community stability. The membership of the
panel shall reflect expertise in diverse disciplines in
order to adequately address all of those goals.
(2) PREPARATION.—The panel shall initiate such
review no sooner than 18 months after the first day
of the term of the pilot project under subsection (g).
The panel shall prepare the report in consultation
with interested members of the public, including the
Quincy Library Group. The report shall include, but
not be limited to, the following:
(A) A description of any adverse environ-
mental impacts resulting from implementation
of the pilot project.
(B) An assessment of watershed monitoring
data on lands treated pursuant to this section.
Such assessment shall address the following is-
sues on a priority basis: timing of water releases;
water quality changes; and water yield changes
over the short- and long-term in the pilot project
area.
(3) SUBMISSION TO THE CONGRESS.—The panel
shall submit the final report to the Congress as soon
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as practicable, but in no case later than 18 months
after completion of the pilot project.
(4) 
LIMITATION
ON
EXPENDITURES.—The
amount of Federal funds expended for the report
under this subsection, other than for watershed mon-
itoring, shall not exceed $350,000. The amount of
Federal funds expended for watershed monitoring
under this subsection shall not exceed $175,000 for
each fiscal year in which the report is prepared.
(l) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.—Nothing in this
section exempts the pilot project from any Federal environ-
mental law.
(m) LOANS
FOR DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
FOR
WOOD WASTE OR LOW-QUALITY WOOD BYPRODUCTS.—
(1) EVALUATION OF LOAN ADVISABILITY.—The
Alternative Agricultural Research and Commer-
cialization Corporation established under section
1658 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5902) (in this section re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Corporation’’) shall evaluate the ad-
visability of making commercialization assistance
loans under section 1661 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 5905)
to support a minimum of 2 demonstration projects
for the development and demonstration of commercial
application of technology to convert wood waste or
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low-quality wood byproducts into usable, higher value
products.
(2) LOCATION OF DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.—
If the Corporation determines to make loans under
this subsection to support the development and dem-
onstration of commercial application of technology to
convert wood waste or low-quality wood byproducts
into usable, higher value products, the Corporation
shall consider making one loan with regard to a dem-
onstration project to be conducted in the pilot project
area and one loan with regard to a demonstration
project to be conducted in southeast Alaska.
(3) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.—To be eligible
for a loan under this subsection, a demonstration
project shall be required to satisfy the eligibility re-
quirements imposed by the Corporation under section
1661 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5905).
Passed the House of Representatives July 9, 1997.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.