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1 and may be so modified without further Act of Con- 



2 gress. 



3 "(d) EFP^ECTRTt] Date for Contract Modifica- 



4 TION. — 



5 "(1) Effective date. — The modifications 



6 made by subsection (c) shall take effect 45 days 



7 after the date of the enactment of the Environ- 



8 mental Improvement Timber Contract Extension Act 



9 of 1996. 



10 "(2) Ministerial duty to modify the con- 



11 tract. — Not later than such effective date, the con- 



12 tracting: officer shall revise, as a ministerial function, 



13 the text of the contract to conform with the modi- 



14 fications made by subsection (c) and implement the 



15 modified contract. The contracting officer shall 



16 make conforming changes to provisions of the con- 



17 tract that were not modified by subsection (c) in 



18 order to ensure that the modifications made by such 



19 subsection are implemented. 



20 "(e) Transition Timber Supply. — Timber volume 



21 available or scheduled to be offered to the purchaser under 



22 the contract in effect on the day before the date of the 



23 enactment of the Environmental Improvement Timber 



24 Contract Extension Act of 1996 shall continue to be of- 



25 fered and scheduled under the contract as modified by 



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