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produced in the 1980s. The agreed upon one billion board feet goal 

 was already a compormised number; compromised to only 25% of 

 previous production. How would you like to live upon only 25% of 

 your previous year's salary? 



Today, even with President Clinton's one billion board feet 

 promise, the actual production numbers are so low (less than 20% of 

 FY94's promise) that they are killing Pacific Northwest rural timber 

 communities. Between 1993 and 1995, 66 mills shut their doors. 



The one billion board feet, Mr. Chairman, is a promise by 

 President Clinton made to the families of the Pacific Northwest who 

 make their living from timber ~ a promise that was broken. 



As if this weren't enough evidence of the Clinton 

 Administration's true intentions, Mr. Chairman, Secretary of 

 Agriculture Dan Glickman earlier this month issued a new directive 

 that clearly violates the intent of Timber Salvage Act (P.L. 104-19). 

 We passed the Salvage Act to streamline some of the bureaucracy that 

 does nothing but keep salvageable timber from being harvested ~ 

 often times resulting in the timber just rotting away or being 

 consumed by massive forest fires. This is literally burning money; 

 money that should be food on the table of timber families. 



Yet, Secretary Glickman's own staff has stated that some of the 

 salvage sales that would have qualified under the Congressional 

 directive are now pulled and not allowed under the new Glickman 



