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1 ber and setting a minimum bid for trees, portions of trees, 



2 or forest products located on National Forest System 



3 lands proposed for sale under section 14 or other provision 



4 of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure that the 



5 estimated cash returns to the United States Treasury 



6 from each sale exceed the estimated costs to be incurred 



7 by the Federal Government in preparation or as a result 



8 of that sale. 



9 "(b) Costs To Be Considered. — For purposes of 



10 estimating under this section the costs to be incurred by 



11 the Federal Government from each timber sale, the Sec- 



12 retary shall assign to the sale the following costs: 



13 "(1) The actual appropriated expenses for sale 



14 preparation and harvest administration incurred or 



15 to be incurred by the Federal Government from the 



16 sale and the payments to counties to be made as a 



17 result of the sale. 



18 "(2) A portion of the annual timber resource 



19 planning costs, silvicultural examination costs, other 



20 resource support costs, road design and construction 



21 costs, road maintenance costs, transportation plan- 



22 ning costs, appropriated reforestation costs, timber 



23 stand improvement costs, forest genetics costs, gen- 



24 eral administrative costs (including administrative 



25 costs of the national and regional offices of the For- 



