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FINAL 



STATEMENT OF 

 JAMES R. LYONS, UNDER SECRETARY 

 NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 

 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Before the 



Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Lands 



Committee on Resources 



United States House of Representatives 



Implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan 



July 23, 1996 



MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE: 



Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the Forest Service's 

 implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan. Today, I am 

 accompanied by Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of the Forest Service and 

 Thomas Tuchmann, Special Assistant to the Secretary. 



I am happy to report that the economic assistance program of the 

 forest plan is functioning well . The federal agencies are 

 working well together to meet the economic assistance goals of 

 the Northwest Forest Plan while coordinating and working in 

 partnership with communities, local and tribal governments, 

 business, and the public. We are on track preparing timber sales 

 under the Northwest Forest Plan; however, our ability to offer 

 that volume for sale under the plan while meeting the 

 requirements of Section 2001 of P.L. 104-19 and court ordered 

 activities associated with this Act will be difficult. 



