HEADWATERS FOREST ACT 



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1993 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee on Specialty Crops 



AND Natural Resources, 

 Committee on Agriculture, 



Washington, DC. 



The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:25 a.m., in room 

 1302, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Charlie Rose (chair- 

 man of the subcommittee) presiding. 



Present: Representatives Baesler, Bishop, Condit, Minge, 

 Pomeroy, English, Farr, Volkmer, Doolittle, Kingston, Goodlatte, 

 and Pombo. 



Also present: Representative Dooley, member of the committee, 

 and Representative Hamburg. 



Staff present: Jan Rovecamp, clerk; Keith Pitts, Alexandra Buell, 

 James A. Davis, and Stacy Carey. 



Mr. Baesler [assuming chair]. The subcommittee will come to 

 order. If we can, we will get started. The chairman is on his way, 

 so we will start in anticipation of his arrival. 



This morning to consider H.R. 2866, the Headwaters Forest Act, 

 the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Natural Resources has. 

 Congressman Pete Stark and Congressman Dan Hamburg, the cur- 

 rent chief sponsors of H.R. 2866 and the newly represented district 

 blessed with the redwood. 



I will turn it over to Congressman Hamburg. 



[H.R. 2866 follows:] 



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