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1 "(3) In fiscal year 2000, the quantity of timber 



2 sold in below-cost timber sales on National Forest 



3 Sj^tem lands shall not exceed 50 percent of the 



4 quantity of timber sold in such sales in the fiscal 



5 year 1999. 



6 "(e) Below-Cost Timber Sale. — For purposes of 



7 this section, the term *below-cost timber sale' means a sale 



8 of timber in which the costs to be incurred by the Federal 



9 Government exceed the cash returns to the United States 



10 Treasury.". 



1 1 (b) Findings. — Section 2 of the Forest and Range- 



12 land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 



13 U.S.C. 1600) is amended— 



14 (1) by striking "and" at the end of paragraph 



15 (6); 



16 (2) by striking the period at the end of para- 



17 graph (7) and inserting "; and"; and 



18 (3) by adding at the end the folloAving new 



19 paragraph: 



20 "(8) the practice of selling timber from Na- 



21 tional Forest System lands for less than the cost to 



22 the Federal Government of gi*ouing the timber and 



23 preparing the timber for sale is not in the best inter- 



24 ests of the United States, and such below-cost sales 



25 should be eliminated in an orderly manner to achieve 



