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Sequoia Sierra 



Acres 1. HI, 73-1 1.309,013 



Per Acre Dollars Per Acre Dollars 



1991 S 0.77 $ 880,804 $ 2,34 83,057.610 



1992 s 1.59 $1,817,900 S 2.37 §3,106,462 



1993 s 1.93 $2,200,635 S 2,68 $3,503,131 



Under 16 U.S.C. 500 State Legislatures decides the funds assigned to 

 education vs. roads. All National Forest acres are used to determine the per 

 acre, payment . Payments are based on authorized receipts, timber being roughly 

 90X '. Under the peculiar way Federal funding is handled, the balance left in 

 the unencumbered account, "National Forest Fund, Timber" need not be 

 sufficient to defray the 25% payments. Thus despite that fact that there was 

 only $1,378,089 deposited in the "National Forest Fund, Timber" in 1993, the 

 standard calculation would have the Sequoia pay out 52,157,648 generated by 

 t imber . 



My 11 year table outlining the National Forest Fund Balance Left After 

 Earmarking shows timber related county payments greater than the actual 

 payments from all receipts for the Sequoia for 1989-1993. This occurs because 

 an unnoticed law (58 Stat 227 1 permitted the Service to skim $1,047,530 off 

 the top of receipts to use for land acquisition. This had the effect of 

 reducing 25X payments by a total of $261,837 for these 4 years. 



Attached is Table 3 which depicts the calculated and actual 25% payments 

 for the two Forests for 1984-1993. permitting seeing the Sequoia and Sierra 

 situations . 



As the basic tables show and this table reinforces, the Forest Service 

 is able to earmark receipts for Purchaser Road Credit. K,V. and Salvage, as 

 well as take funds "off the top" for land acquisition, and make 25% pavments, 

 even though this eats up over 100% of the Sequoia receipts. Yet it can 

 pretend that this presents no case for fiscal restraint. 



The 1993 actual payments from the Sequoia on a per acre basis were 2.5 

 times those in 1991. For these years the Sierra payments rose only 15%. 1990 

 was the peak year for Sierra payments. They were 3.3 times greater, than 

 1984 's. On a per acre basis ($4,35 1 they were 5.5 times those from the 

 Sequoia ($0.79). There is no logic or equity to the payments. Fresno county 



Timber Accounts are 3 earmarked accounts, [1] K,V,, 12 1 

 Salvage, 131 Tbr. Purch. Road Credit (a nonmoney trade of timber 

 for roads), and a nonearmarked account (4! "National Forest Fund, 

 Timber". There are 6 Nontimber accounts are Grazing, Land Use, 

 Special Use, User Fees, Power and Minerals (excluding the bulk of 

 mineral receipts which are collected by USDI under the Mineral 

 leasing Act of 1920). 14J "National Forest Fund, Timber", and the 

 5 of the nontimber accounts are not earmarked. In theory these are 

 available to finance the 25% payments. 



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