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provides enough timber for the Tongass dependent timber industry Lo 

 continue at current levels and even to expand ." Id. at 23 (statement of 

 Larry Edwards. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council). 



" H.R. 987 IS JOB NEUTRAL . Passage of H. R. 987 will have no effect on 

 the number of jobs in the Tongass dependent timber industry of 

 Southeast Alaska." Id. at 56 (statement of Larry Edwards, Southeast 

 Alaska Conservation Council). 



Rep. Young: "What happens if the Sitka mill shuts down?" 



Larry Edwards, "It's not going to. I mean, we're not going to affect the 

 timber base ." Id. at 77. 



• Acts to Reform the Tongass Timber Supply Fund, and to Am.end 



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.l), 101st 

 Cong., IstSess. (1989). 



" S. 346 IS JOB NEUTRAL . Passage of S. 346 will have no effect on the 

 number of jobs in the Tongass dependent timber industry in Southeast 



