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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1502
To direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to conduct a yield
and cost study of timber management investment opportunities on Fed-
eral timberlands in California, Oregon, and Washington, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 29, 1993
Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. KOPETSKI, and Mr. HERGER) introduced the
following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Agriculture
and Natural Resources
A BILL
To direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior
to conduct a yield and cost study of timber management
investment opportunities on Federal timberlands in Cali-
fornia, Oregon, and Washington, and for other purposes.
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 Management
Improvement Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Under the timber management policy of
nondeclining even flow, articulated in section 13(a)
of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
Planning Act of 1974, the allowable sale quantity
for a national forest is a function of total timber
growth, which depends on available timberland area
and the rate of timber growth.
(2) Protecting the northern spotted owl and
other factors will lead to reductions in the Federal
land available for timber harvesting, leading to de-
clines in harvests and to undesirable declines in tim-
ber industry employment.
(3) Increases in timber management invest-
ments on Federal and other lands not protected as
spotted owl habitat could offset some of the declines
in allowable sale quantities resulting from spotted
owl protection.
(4) No separate studies of timber management
investment opportunities on Federal timberlands
have been conducted for more than a decade.
(5) The fund established by section 3 of the Act
of June 9, 1930 (16 U.S.C. 576b; commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘K–V fund’’), was originally estab-
lished to assure adequate funding for timber man-
agement investments for the national forests, but
since 1976, substantial and increasing portions of
this fund have been used for wildlife habitat im-
provement, watershed improvement, and other
nontimber resource projects.
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are to—
(1) identify and examine timber management
investment opportunities on Federal timberlands in
the States of California, Oregon, and Washington;
(2) expand financial assistance programs for
timber investments on non-Federal timberlands in
the States of California, Oregon, and Washington;
and
(3) assure that amounts from the fund estab-
lished by section 3 of the Act of June 9, 1930, are
available for timber management investments on
Federal timberlands, consistent with the original in-
tent of that Act.
SEC. 3. TIMBER MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT STUDY.
(a) YIELDS AND COSTS REPORT.—The Secretary of
Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, and the
Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of
Land Management, shall each prepare a report displaying
the yields and costs, both financial and environmental, of
timber management investment opportunities for lands
under their respective jurisdictions in the States of Cali-