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"The timber will still be available." Id- at 42 (statement of Rep. Miller). 



"I am very much aware it is very easy to roll over the Representative from-Alaska, because 

 it is a throwaway vote for everybody else in the lower 48. This i'sn't at^out clositig the mills. This 

 isn't about loQking up the timber so- they qan't have it. This is simply saying we ought To^ngag3 in 

 modem practices." M-at 50(statei|ientoYRep./vliller). ■ ' ' 



"The timber will be there. It will be there in almost double the amounts they have ever cut. 

 They will have to compete for it on the open market like everybody else and take into consideration 

 other economic things." Id- at 50 (statement of Rep. Miller). 



• Senate Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources, Tongass Timber Reform Act, S. Rep. No. 



261, 101st Cong., 2d Sess. (1990), reprinted in 1990 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6232. 



". . . the Committee has adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 987, 

 which seeks to improve management of the Tongass by balancing the commodity and 

 noncommodity resources of the forest in a manner which will not harm nor destabilize the local 

 economy." S. Rep. No. 261, at 9. 



"The designation of 23 additional areas would have a minimal impact on the local timber 

 industry." S. Rep. No. 261, at 31 (additional views of Senators Metzenbaum and Bradley). 



• Acts to Reform the Tongass Timber Supply Fund, and to Amend the Alaska National Interest 



Lands Conservation Act and for Other Purposes: Hearings on S.237 and S. 346 Before the 

 Subcomm. on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Senate Comm. on Energy and 

 Natural Resources (pt. 2), 101st Cong. 1st Sess. (1989). 



"It is not my intent to stop timber harvest on the Tongass National Forest, or to close the 

 mills in Ketchikan and Sitka, nor do I think that will happen." Id. at 3 (statement of Sen. Wirth). 



"I was struck by a number of panelists saying that if the Wirth bill passes the mills are going 

 to close down. Is there a position in the legislation that says that the mills are going to be closed 

 down? The answer to that is no." Id- at 66 (statement of Sen. Wirth). 



"1 think also it is imfortunate that some people in the timber industry said they were going 

 to have 30 percent unemployment or 40 or 50 percent unemployment if this legislation passes." 

 Id- at 66 (statement of Sen. Wirth). 



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