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the Class I's. Otherwise it would be best management practices. 

 And Class III would use best management practices. 



Mr. Finney. I guess, and I would like to be able to give you this 

 in more detail, the answer to this question in more detail. But just 

 off the top of my head right now, we have kind of said that if the 

 worst case happened under that legislation, we would probably 

 have a reduction of over 50 percent of our industry. 



So it would be somewhere around 225, 230 million. Whereas the 

 best case interpretation of that would probably leave us somewhere 

 around 300 million. 



The Chairman. All right. Under Southeast Alaska 1, can you 

 give me a judgment on how much could be harvested? 



Mr. Finney. Again, there are a lot of varying answers to that, 

 and I would very much like to give you that in writing when we 

 have a better chance to look at it. 



The Chairman. By the way, I would solicit each witness who 

 would like to make an estimate to make an estimate of these 

 things: How many board-feet can be harvested under the various 

 scenarios. 



Mr. Finney. I might add, Mr. Chairman, under the Southeast 

 Conference position, too, that it anticipates an expenditure of $15 

 million a year for intensive forest management, both number 1 and 

 number 2. That in itself has a large bearing on how much timber 

 would be produced, if that money would be available. 



So no matter how you state it, there is going to be a "what if" 

 involved with it. 



The Chairman. Mr. Lindh. 



Mr. Lindh. Yes. Regarding the original Southeast Conference 

 proposal, the conference estimated about a 23 million board-foot 

 per year impact on the 450. I recalculated the numbers using the 

 Forest Service data base and came up with about 28 million of the 

 450. That would be the effect of that version that the State is sup- 

 porting. 



Mr. Finney. If they have the $15 million? 



Mr. Lindh. That is correct, that the intensive management fund, 

 which would be an annual appropriation, would in the future 

 produce increased growth on young timber stands that would be 

 thinned when they are young. 



The Chairman. Well, that is a little less than what is being pro- 

 duced now? I mean, a little more than what is being produced now. 

 You are saying the Southeast Alaska 1 would impact about 28 mil- 

 lion board-feet, would decrease it 28 million from the 450 base. 



Mr. Lindh. That is our calculation. 



The Chairman. That would be about what is being produced 

 now. 



Mr. Lindh. That is pretty close. 



The Chairman. Is that right? 



Mr. Finney. Yes, that is true. You have to take into consider- 

 ation that what is being produced now is also a large amount of 

 Native logging that is providing a pulp component to what is being 

 used on the forest. They have reached the peak. 



I think totally the industry in southeast Alaska produced some- 

 where around a billion board-feet of timber this year, the largest 

 amount they ever have. That is going to start down because the 



