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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1439
To amend the National Forest Management Act of 1976 to require the
timber sale program conducted by the Forest Service on National Forest
System lands to be financed only by receipts from the sale of timber
under the program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 6, 1995
Mr. METCALF introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Commit-
tee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To amend the National Forest Management Act of 1976
to require the timber sale program conducted by the
Forest Service on National Forest System lands to be
financed only by receipts from the sale of timber under
the program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Timber Sale Financial
Accountability Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. RELIANCE ON FOREST SERVICE TIMBER SALE RE-
CEIPTS TO FUND TIMBER SALES.
(a) TIMBER RECEIPTS TO COVER COSTS.—Section
14 of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16
U.S.C. 472a) is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(j) USE OF TIMBER RECEIPTS TO COVER SALE
COSTS.—
‘‘(1) TIMBER RECEIPTS FUND.—There is here-
by established in the Treasury of the United States
a fund to be known as the ‘National Forest System
Timber Receipts Fund’ and consisting of receipts
from the sale of trees, portions of trees, and forest
products located on National Forest System lands.
The Fund shall consist of two accounts, one account
for units of the National Forest System located east
of the Mississippi River and the other account for
units located west of the Mississippi River and in
Alaska. Amounts in the two accounts may not be
commingled. Amounts in the Fund are to be avail-
able until expended.
‘‘(2) USE OF FUND.—Amounts in an account of
the Fund shall be available, in such amounts as are
provided in advance in appropriation Acts, to the
Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose of covering
the cost to the United States—
‘‘(A) for design, engineering, and super-
vision of the construction of roads needed in
connection with timber sales conducted under
this section in units of the National Forest Sys-
tem covered by the account; and
‘‘(B) for Forest Service preparation, adver-
tisement, offering, awarding, and supervision of
the operation of such timber sales.
‘‘(3) RELIANCE ON FUND.—The Fund shall be
the sole source of amounts for the activities specified
in paragraph (2), and amounts otherwise appro-
priated or made available to the Secretary or the
Forest Service in appropriation Acts may not be ob-
ligated or expended for such activities.
‘‘(4) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.—Except as pro-
vided in paragraph (5), the following provisions of
law shall not apply to receipts from the sale of trees,
portions of trees, and forest products located on Na-
tional Forest System lands:
‘‘(A) The fifth paragraph under the head-
ing ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ in the Act of March
4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1270; 16 U.S.C. 499).
‘‘(B) The fourth sentence in section 9 of
the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 655; 16
EST SERVICE’’ in the Act of May 23, 1908 (35
Stat. 260; 16 U.S.C. 500), section 13 of the Act of
March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 963; 16 U.S.C. 500; com-
monly known as the Weeks Act), and the fourteenth
paragraph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERV-
ICE’’ of the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843;
16 U.S.C. 501).’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Such section is
further amended—
(1) in subsection (h)—
(A) by striking ‘‘in a designated fund’’ in
the third sentence and inserting ‘‘in the Na-
tional Forest System Timber Receipts Fund es-
tablished under subsection (j),’’; and
(B) by striking the last sentence, including
the provisos; and
(2) in subsection (i)(2), by striking ‘‘, and such
additional sums as may be appropriated for the con-
struction of roads’’.
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