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A RESOLUTION 



OPPOSING THE 



ENVIRONMENT IMPROVEMENT TIMBER CONTRACT EXTENSION ACT 



S. 1877 AND H.R. 3659 



WHEREAS: The fifty-year timber contract between the U.S. 

 Government and Louisiana Pacific Ketchikan Pulp mill awards 

 unfair market advantages to the consignee. 



WHEREAS: The terms of the contract negotiated in 1954 are forty 

 years past the date and times in which subsistence, tourism, 

 recreation, fisheries and hunting have assumed new and increasing 

 social and economic implications and importance relative to 

 timber cutting. 



WHEREAS: The contract is inconsistent with multiple-use of the 

 forest . 



WHEREAS: The economics of commerical fisheries, sport fisheries, 

 recreation, tourist, hunting and subsistence will be irreparably 

 damaged . 



WHEREAS: LPK in 1995 was convicted of one felony and 13 

 misdemeanors . 



WHEREAS: LPK was convicted in 1983 of conspiring to drive out of 

 business 102 small independent timber operators. 



WHEREAS: Movement of forest cutting practices outside of the 

 southern working circle into northern southeast Alaska will 

 irreparably damage forest resources, including, fisheries, game, 

 subsistence, recreation and tourist. 



WHEREAS; In the sense of the members of the United States Senate 

 and the U. S. House of Representatives bound under oath to 

 support and to up hold the laws of the United States the awarding 

 of a contract extension to LPK is inconsistent with the intent of 

 those laws. 



LET IT BE RESOLVED that the JUNEAU GROUP OF THE SIERRA CLUB 

 opposes any form 15 year contract extension to LPK embodied in S. 

 18J7 and H.R. 3659. 



tich^d^T. Mw^en 

 Chair, Juneari Group of the Sierra Club 

 Representing 153 members in Juneau, Alaska. 



June 20, 1996 

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