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We recognize that the agency has the authority to adjust timber sale funds to 

 retrieve additional dollars to eliminate the deficit. The region has unofficially 

 informed our association that they are moving rapidly to narrow and eliminate 

 the KV deficit. Individual Forest Service employees have also stated that 

 they will not be eliminating any stand maintenance work to reduce the 

 projected expenses. However, our association must express a certain degree 

 of skepticism that stand maintenance work will not be eliminated to reduce 

 the deficit. 



Region 6 previously had a large KV cash balance due to their large timber 

 sale program. We suspect that when the timber sale program collapsed, the 

 agency continued to maintain its large staff which drained the KV budget. 

 Since the timber sale program has essentially stopped, the agency is not 

 generating as much income. The KV cash balance will likely worsen. 



