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knowledge, never before has the White House been involved in the daily decisions on individual 

 timber sales or timber sale units, which is now common place under the Clinton Administration. 



Administration's Perfor mance Under the President's Northwest Forest Plan 

 The President's Northwest Forest Plan establishes a goal to produce a "Probable Sale Quantity 

 (PSQ)" of 1 .053 billion board feet each year, from Forest Service and BLM lands in the range of 

 the northern spotted owl. Ten percent of the PSQ is to be non-sawlog material referred to as 

 "other wood" in the Plan. Therefore, the Plan should produce 0.948 billion board feet per year of 

 sawlog material that mills need to operate. 



For a variet>- of excuses, the Administration has told Congress that it would take a few years to 

 ramp up to the fiill PSQ level. Most of the excuses relate to new bureaucracy and procedures 

 implemented with no basis in law or regulation. All that being said, the Administration promised 

 to sell 60 percent of the PSQ in Fiscal Year 95, 80 percent in FY96 and 100 percent in FY97. 



They have stated that their FY95 promise was met, but a closer look shows that they were short 

 on the sawlog portion. Timber Data Company of Eugene, Oregon is a private consulting firm 

 that tracks every federal timber sale sold by purchaser, volume, price, bid & termination dates, 

 harvest activity etc.... They are in the business of providing this information to companies, 

 agencies. Congress and the media. A review by Timber Data of the Administration's 

 accomplishments in FY94, FY95 and FY96 through June 30, shows a less than satisfactory level 

 of accomplishment. See Exhibit #6. 



The first difference is that the Administration takes credit for volume "offered" which is different 

 than "sold and awarded." Some sales are offered (advertised) but withdrawn and/or never 

 awarded after bids. Other sales may not receive any bids because the minimum advertised rates 

 were too high. All these sales are coimted by the Administration but do not provide any logs to 

 mills or meet the President's promises to communitie s — — 



The second difference is because the Administration takes credit for as much as 30 percent of 



