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currently receives $30 million annually from this tariff fund. Representative 

 Ron Wyden has proposed in the Timber Management Improvement Act that 

 the KV legislation be amended to include the BLM. The Board of Directors of 

 our association has endorsed both legislative proposals. 



Congress is apparently moving an emergency $14 to $15 million 

 reforestation funding package for FY 93. This legislation should be passed. 



Economic efficiency: The BLM spends an excessive amount of funds on 

 administrative and other non-related items that is charged to the 

 reforestation/forest development budget. The agency needs to learn to 

 operate in a more economically efficient manner, particularly since the 

 agency is falling further behind on its intensive management needs. 



Audit and performance committee: As discussed in the Forest Service 

 recommendations, this committee would monitor and review BLM budgets to 

 make sure that the agency was efficiently spending its money. 



Funding for non-industrial forestlands 



Although outside of the scope of this particular committee, our association 

 requests that the US Congress provide a matching appropriation of $5 million 

 to help fund a Reforestation Trust Fund proposal developed by Oregon's 

 Secretary of State Phil Keisling to properly re-stock the 600,000 acres of 

 under-stocked non-industrial forestlands in western Oregon. The proper 

 reforesting and management of non-industrial forestlands in Oregon and 

 Washington can lessen the pressure to cut old growth forests on public 

 lands. 



SUMMARY 



There are a number of opportunities to create intensive management forestry 

 jobs on both public and private forestlands in the Pacific Northwest that are 

 environmentally and economically sound. The investment will provide jobs 

 in the short-term. More importantly, the investment will generate more 

 timber yield from existing cut-over lands in the future. 



Our association wishes to thank Chairman Vento for the opportunity to 

 provide testimony. 



