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I will let Tom address that, and then, if you like, I think Jack can 

 talk about what the forest plan called for overall. 



Mr. TUCHMANN. We are getting into this arcane business of num- 

 bers and differences between volume offered, sold, and harvested. 

 What the forest plan committed to in our probable sale quantity 

 calculation was 953 million board feet offered. That offer is cal- 

 culated on what they call chargeable volume, which historically 

 was primarily saw logs but did not have to include saw logs specifi- 

 cally. 



What I just reported to you, the 77 percent and 14 percent, that 

 is 91 percent, was commercial volume that was offered last year 

 under the 600 million board foot target between the Forest Service 

 and the Bureau of Land Management, so we feel that we have met 

 that probable sale quantity commitment in 1995, and we also feel 

 that we are on track for 1996. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. What is the difference between the sales that 

 were offered and the sales that were actually harvested, according 

 to that chart? 



Mr. TuCHMANN. Those are offered volumes, not harvested. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. Right. 



Mr. TuCHMANN. A purchaser has up to three years to harvest 

 that volume after it has been sold and awarded. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. My problem is that with Secretary Glickman's 

 latest rules and regulations, it has brought it to a screeching halt. 

 I know it has across Idaho, and that is a serious disappointment. 

 I hope that there is some way we can work out of that, not only 

 for jobs and communities but for forest health, too, and because we 

 really would like to believe in the President's promise. 



President Clinton said July 1, 1993, by preserving the forests 

 and setting predictable and sustainable levels of timber sales, it 

 protects jobs, not just in the short term but for years to come, and 

 I think the President was talking about timber sales and protecting 

 jobs. 



Although I appreciated the Secretary's testimony, actually, what 

 I am hearing is that we are putting a lot of processes in place but 

 yet we are frustrated about getting the logs out of the forest. 



Secretary Lyons, you also mentioned about the fact that the 

 President's plan requires a watershed analysis, and you are en- 

 gaged in that, to be completed for every watershed before timber 

 sales can proceed. What percent of the analyses have been com- 

 pleted as of today? 



Mr. Lyons. Let me just check my numbers on that for a second, 

 Congresswoman. I would point out, if I could respond to the earlier 

 point that you made, that neither the — I assume you were referring 

 to the Secretary's directive with regard to salvage timber sales in 

 your earlier comment? 



Mrs. Chenoweth. Yes. 



Mr. Lyons, [continuing] — nor the activities that we have been in- 

 volved in have brought anything to a screeching halt. Quite to the 

 contrary, I think they have facilitated moving forward both with an 

 aggressive salvage sale program and, of course, we have continued 

 to operate aggressively to implement the 



Mrs. Chenoweth. If the Secretary will yield for just a moment, 

 most of the sales in my district have stopped because of the Sec- 



