An Act to provide for the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, to protect, develop, and enhance the productivity and other values of certain of the Nation's lands and resources, and for other purposes.
PL 93-378 (S.2296), enacted 08/17/1974

476 
PUBLIC LAW 93-378-AUG. 17, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
Public Law 93-378 
August 17, 1974 
AN ACT 
[S.2296] 
To provide for the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, to protect, develop, 
and enhance the productivity and other values of certain of the Nation's lands 
and resources, and for other purposes. 
Forest and 
Rangeland Re-
newable Re-
sources Planning 
Act of 1974. 
16 u s e 1601 
note. 
16 u s e 1601. 
Survey and 
analysis. 
Cooperation 
with State and 
U.S. territorial 
officials. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re-presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
Act of 1974". 
SEC. 2. RENEWABLE RESOURCE ASSESSMENT.—(a) In recognition of 
the vital importance of America's renewable resources of the forest, 
range, and other associated lands to the Nation's social and economic 
well-being, and of the necessity for a long term perspective in plan-
ning and undertaking related national renewable resource programs 
administered by the Forest Service, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
prepare a Renewable Resource Assessment (hereinafter called the 
"Assessment"). The Assessment shall be prepared not later than 
December 31, 1975, and shall be updated during 1979 and each tenth 
year thereafter, and shall include but not be limited to— 
(1) an analysis of present and anticipated uses, demand for, 
and supply of the renewable resources, with consideration of the 
international resource situation, and an emphasis of pertinent 
supply and demand and price relationship trends; 
(2) an inventory, based on information developed by the Forest 
Service and other F'ederal agencies, of present and potential 
renewable resources, and an evaluation of opportunities for 
improving their yield of tangible and intangible goods and 
services, together with estimates of investment costs and direct 
and indirect returns to the Federal Government; 
(3) a description of Forest Service programs and responsibili-
ties in research, cooperative programs and management of the 
National Forest System, their interrelationships, and the relation-
ship of these programs and responsibilities to public and piivate 
activities; and 
(4) a discussion of important policy considerations, laws, regu-
lations, and other factors expected to influence and ail'ect signifi-
cantly the use, ownership, and management of forest, range, and 
other associated lands. 
(b) To assure the availability of adequate data and scientific infor-
mation needed for development of the Assessment, section 9 of the 
McSweeney-McNary Act of May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 702, as amended, 
16 U.S.C. 581h), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to 
make and keep current a comprehensive survey and analysis of the 
present and prospective conditions of and requirements for the renew-
able resources of the forest and range lands of the United States, its 
territories and possessions, and of the supplies of such renewable 
resources, including a determination of the present and potential pro-
ductivity of the land, and of such other facts as may be necessary and 
useful in the determination of ways and means needed to balance the 
demand for and supply of these renewable resources, benefits and uses 
in meeting the needs of the people of the United States. The Secretary 
shall carry out the survey and analysis under such plans as he may 
determine to be fair and equitable, and cooperate with appropriate 
officials of each State, territory, or possession of the United States, and 
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477 
either through them or directly with private or other agencies. There 
Appropriation. 
is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $20,000,000 in any fiscal 
year to carry out the purposes of this section." 
SEC. 3. RENEWABLE RESOURCE PROGRAM.—In order to provide for 
^^ use 1602. 
periodic review of programs for management and administration of 
the National Forest System, for research, for cooperative State and 
private Forest Service programs, and for conduct of other Forest Serv-
ice activities in relation to the findings of the Assessment, the Secretary 
of Agriculture, utilizing information available to the Forest Service 
and other agencies within the Department of Agriculture, including 
data prepared pursuant to section 302 of the Rural Development Act 
of 1972, shall prepare and transmit to the President a recommended 
^ use loioa. 
Renewable Resource Program (hereinafter called the "Program"). 
The Program transmitted to the President may include alternatives, 
and shall provide in appropriate detail for protection, management, 
and development of the National Forest System, including forest 
development roads and trails; for cooperative Forest Service pro-
grams ; and for research. The Program shall be developed in accord-
ance with principles set forth in the Multiple-L^se Sustained-Yield 
Act of June 12, 1960 (74 Stat. 215; 16 U.S.C. 528-531), and the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (83 Stat. 852; 42 U.S.C. 
4321-4347). The Program shall be prepared not later than December 31, 
1975, to cover the four-year period beginning October 1, 1976, and at 
least each of the four fiscal decades next following such period, and 
shall be updated no later than during the first half of the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1980, and the first half of each fifth fiscal year 
thereafter to cover at least each of the four fiscal decades beginning 
next after such updating. The Program shall include, but not be 
contents. 
limited to— 
(1) an inventory of specific needs and opportunities for both 
public and private program investments. The inventory shall 
differentiate between activities which are of a capital nature and 
those which are of an operational nature; 
(2) specific identification of Program outputs, results antici-
pated, and benefits associated with investments in such a manner 
that the anticipated costs can be directly compared with the total 
related benefits and direct and indirect returns to the Federal 
Government; 
(3) a discussion of priorities for accomplishment of inventoried 
Program opportunities, with specified costs, outputs, results, and 
benefits; and 
(4) a detailed study of personnel requirements as needed to 
satisfy existing and ongoing programs. 
SEC. 4. NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM RESOURCE INVENTORIES.—As a part 
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of the Assessment, the Secretary of Agriculture shall develop and 
maintain on a continuing basis a comprehensive and appropriately 
detailed inventory of all National Forest System lands and renewable 
resources. This inventory shall be kept current so as to reflect changes 
in conditions and identify new and emerging resources and values. 
SEC. 5. NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM RESOURCE PLANNING.—(a) As a 
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part of the Program provided for by section 3 of this Act, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall develop, maintain, and, as appropriate, revise land 
and resource management plans for units of the National Forest 
System, coordinated with the land and resource management planning 
processes of State and local governments and other Federal agencies. 
(b) In the development and maintenance of land management plans 
for use on units of the National Forest System, the Secretary shall use 
a systematic interdisciplinary approach to achieve integrated con-
sideration of physical, biological, economic, and other sciences. 
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[88 STAT. 
16 u s e 1605. 
Assessment, 
Program, and 
Statement of 
Policy, transmit-
tal to Speaker of 
the House and 
President of the 
Senate. 
16 u s e 1606. 
eongressional 
session, continu-
ity. 
Ante, p. 297. 
Annual report 
to Congress. 
SEC. 
6. COOPERATION IN RESOURCE PLANNING.—The Secretary of 
Agriculture may utilize the Assessment, resource surveys, and Program 
prepared pursuant to this Act to assist States and other organizations 
in proposing the planning for the protection, use, and management of 
renewable resources on non-Federal land. 
SEC. 7. NATIONAL PARTICIPATION.— (a) On the date Congress first 
convenes in 1976 and thereafter following each updating of the Assess-
ment and the Program, the President shall transmit to the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, when 
Congress convenes, the Assessment as set forth in section 2 of this Act 
and the Program as set forth in section 3 of this Act, together with a 
detailed Statement of Policy intended to be used in framing budget 
requests by that Administration for Forest Service activities for the 
five- or ten-year program period beginning during the term of such 
Congress for such further action deemed appropriate by the Congress. 
Following the transmission of such Assessment, Program, and State-
ment of Policy, the President shall, subject to other actions of the 
Congress, carry out programs already established by law in accordance 
with such Statement of Policy or any subsequent amendment or modifi-
cation thereof approved by the Congress, unless, before the end of the 
first period of sixty calendar days of continuous session of Congress 
after the date on which the President of the Senate and the Speaker of 
the House are recipients of the transmission of such Assessment, Pro-
gram, and Statement of Policy, either House adopts a resolution 
reported by the appropriate committee of jurisdiction disapproving 
the Statement of Policy. For the purpose of this subsection, the conti-
nuity of a session shall be deemed to be broken only by an adjournment 
sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because 
of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain shall be 
excluded in the computation of the sixty-day period. Notwithstanding 
any other provision of this Act, Congress may revise or modify the 
Statement of Policy transmitted by the President, and the revised or 
modified Statement of Policy shall be used in framing budget requests. 
(b) Commencing with the fiscal budget for the year ending Septem-
ber 30, 1977, requests presented by the President to the Congress 
governing Forest Service activities shall express in qualitative and 
quantitative terms the extent to which the programs and policies pro-
jected under the budget meet the policies approved by the Congress 
in accordance with subsection (a) of this section. In any case in which 
such budget so presented recommends a course which fails to meet the 
policies so established, the President shall specifically set forth the 
reason or reasons for requesting the Congress to approve the lesser 
programs or policies presented. Amounts appropriated to carry out the 
policies approved in accordance with subsection (a) of this section shall 
be expended in accordance with the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Public Law 93-344. 
(c) For the purpose of providing information that will aid Con-
gress in its oversight responsibilities and improve the accountability 
of agency expenditures and activities, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall prepare an annual report which evaluates the component elements 
of the Program required to be prepared by section 3 of this Act which 
shall be furnished to the Congress at the time of submission of the 
annual fiscal budget commencing with the third fiscal year after the 
enactment of this Act. 
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(d) These annual evaluation reports shall set forth progress in 
implementing the Program required to be prepared by section 3 of this 
Act, together with accomplishments of the Program as they relate to 
the objectives of the Assessment. Objectives should be set forth in 
qualitative and quantitative terms and accomplishments should be 
reported accordingly. The report shall contain appropriate measure-
ments of pertinent costs and benefits. The evaluation shall assess the 
balance between economic factors and environmental quality factors. 
Program benefits shall include, but not be limited to, environmental 
quality factors such as esthetics, public access, wildlife habitat, rec-
reational and wilderness use, and economic factors such as the excess 
of cost savings over the value of foregone benefits and the rate of 
return on renewable resources. 
(e) The reports shall indicate plans for implementing corrective 
action and recommendations for new legislation where warranted. 
(f) The reports shall be structured for Congress in concise summary 
form with necessary detailed data in appendices. 
SEC. 8. NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM PROGRAM ELEMENTS.—The Secre- gndYdmlnl^^tri-
tary of Agriculture shall take such action as will assure that the devel- tion. 
opment and administration of the renewable resources of the National 
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Forest System are in full accord with the concepts for multiple use 
and sustained yield of products and services as set forth in the Multiple-
Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960. To further these concepts, the Con- ^^^^ "^^ ^^s 
gress hereby sets the year 2000 as the target year when the renewable 
resources of the National Forest System shall be in an operating pos-
ture whereby all backlogs of needed treatment for their restoration 
shall be reduced to a current basis and the major portion of planned 
intensive multiple-use sustained-yield management procedures shall be 
installed and operating on an environmentally-sound basis. The annual 
budget shall contain requests for funds for an orderly program to 
eliminate such backlogs: Provided., That when the Secretary finds that 
(1) the backlog of areas that will benefit by such treatment has been 
eliminated, (2) the cost of treating the remainder of such area exceeds 
the economic and environmental benefits to be secured from their treat-
ment, or (3) the total supplies of the i-enewable resources of the United 
States are adequate to meet the future needs of the American people, 
the budget request for these elements of restoration may be adjusted 
accordingly. 
SEC. 9. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.—The Congress declares that the 
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installation of a proper system of transportation to service the 
National Forest System, as is provided for in Public Law 88-657, the 
Act of October 13, 1964 (16 U.S.C. 532-538), shall be carried forward 
in time to meet anticipated needs on an economical and environ-
mentally sound basis, and the method chosen for financing the con-
struction and maintenance of the transportation system should be such 
as to enhance local, regional, and national benefits, except that the 
financing of forest development roads as authorized by clause (2) 
of section 4 of the Act of October 13, 1964, shall be deemed "budget 
authority" and "budget outlays" as those terms are defined in section 
3(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 and shall be effective for an^ fiscal year only in the manner 
required for new spending authority as specified by section 401(a) 
o f t h a t A c t . 
' 
^nfe, p. 317. 
Ante, 
p. 299. 
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PUBLIC LAW 93-379^AUG. 21, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
16 u s e 1609. 
Forest Service 
field offices. 
42 u s e 3122. 
Information and 
data, utilization. 
16 u s e 1610. 
SEC. 10. (a) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM DEFINED.—Congress declares 
that the National Forest System consists of units of federally owned 
forest, range, and related lands throughout the United States and its 
territories, united into a nationally significant sj^stem dedicated to the 
long-term benefit for present and future generations, and that it is the 
purpose of this section to include all such areas into one integral 
system. The "National Forest System" shall include all national 
forest lands reserved or withdrawn from the public domain of the 
United States, all national forest lands acquired through purchase, 
exchange, donation, or other means, the national grasslands and land 
utilization projects administered under title I I I of the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act (50 Stat. 525, 7 U.S.C. 1010-1012), and other 
lands, waters, or interests therein which are administered by the 
Forest Service or are designated for administration through the For-
est Service as a part of the system. 
(b) The on-the-ground field offices, field supervisory offices, and 
legional offices of the Forest Service shall be so situated as to provide 
the optimum level of convenient, useful services to the public, giving 
priority to the maintenance and location of facilities in rural areas and 
towns near the national forest and Forest Service program locations 
in accordance with the standards in section 901(b) of the Act of 
November 30,1970 (84 Stat. 1383), as amended. 
SEC. 11. RENEWABLE RESOURCES.—In carrying out this Act, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall utilize information and data available 
from other Fe^ral, State, and private organizations and shall avoid 
duplication and overlap of resource assessment and program planning 
efforts of other Federal agencies. The term "renewable resources" 
shall be construed to involve those matters within the scope of respon-
sibilities and authorities of the Forest Service on the date of this Act. 
Approved August 17, 1974. 
August 21. 1974 
[H.R. 12832] 
Public Law 93-379 
AN ACT 
To create a Law Revision Commission for the District of Columbia, and to 
establish a municipal code for the District of Columbia. 
The District of 
eolumbia Law 
Revision eom-
mission Act. 
D . e . Code 49-
401 note. 
District,of 
Columbia Law 
Revision Com-
mission. 
Establishment. 
D . e . Code 49-
401. 
Membership. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representati'ves of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as "the District of Columbia Law Revision Commission Act". 
SEC 2. (a) There is established in the District of Columbia a 
District of Columbia Law Revision Commission (hereafter in this 
Act referred to as the "Commission") which shall consist of fifteen 
members appointed as follows: 
(1) Two members shall be appointed by the President of the 
United States. 
(2) One member shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives. 
(3) One member shall be appointed by the President pro 
tempore of the Senate. 
(4) One member shall be appointed by the minority leader of 
the House of Representatives.