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• Senate Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources, Tongass Timber 

 Reform Act, S. Rep. No. 261, 101st Cong., 2d Sess. (1990), 

 reprinted in 1990 U.S.C.C.A.N 6232. 



". . . the Committee has adopted an amendment in the nature of a 

 substitute to H. R. 987, which seeks to improve management of the 

 Tongass by balancing the commodity and noncommodity resources of the 

 forest in a manner which will not harm nor destabilize the local 

 economy ." S. Rep. No. 261, at 31 (additional views of Senators 

 Metzenbaum eind Bradley). 



• Acts to Reform the Tongass Timber Supply Fund, and to Amend 

 the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and for 

 Other Purposes: Hearings on S.237 and S. 346 Before the 

 Subcomm. on Public Lands. National Parks and Forests of the 

 Senate Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources (pt.2), 101st 

 Cong. 1st Sess. (1989). 



" It is not mv intent to stop timber harvest on the Tongass National Forest, 

 or to close the mills in Ketchikan and Sitka, nor do I thin k that will 

 happen." Id. at 3 (statement of Sen. Wirth). 



" Senate Bill 346 would not weaken the timber industry , but rather 

 provides the best for all. The legislation provides protection for areas 



