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our nation's largest national forest. S.346 is needed to bring order back to 



Tongas s management. 



The Tongass Timber Reform Act would clearly pull the reins in on a 



runaway bureaucracy by taking the following positive steps: 



Returning the funding of the Tongass to the annual 

 appropriations process by repealing Sec. 705(a) of 

 ANILCA. This would remove the Tongass Timber Supply 

 Fund and the inflexible 4.5 billion board foot timber 

 supply goal (known locally as the "450"). 



Repealing the Tongass exemption from Sec. 6(k) of the 

 National Forest Management Act which requires the Forest 

 Service to identify lands not suitable for timber 

 production. 



Broadening the ANILCA Sec. 706(b) review of Tongass 

 management status to include the impacts of timbering on 

 wildlife and fisheries habitat and on subsistence. 



Directing the Forest Service to terminate the 50-year 

 contracts with the two pulp mills and replace them with 

 competitively-bid, short-term timber sales used on all other 

 national forests. 



Establishing a temporary moratorium on logging and road building 

 in 23 areas of high value for fish and wildlife, recreation and 

 tourism, subsistence and scientific research. 



Directing a revision of the Tongass Land Management 

 Plan to reflect changes in the law made by S.346 and 

 to increase protection of fish and wildlife, 

 recreation, subsistence, and biological diversity. 



The Tongass is the only national forest which has a guaranteed 

 entitlement of at least $40 million each year. The Tongass Timber Supply Fund 

 has averaged almost $45 million from full implementation of ANILCA in 1982 to 

 1988. Furthermore, the Tongass is the only national forest with a timber 

 supply goal written into law. The Tongass Timber Supply Fund provides the 

 funding for totally unacceptable environmental impacts at great taxpayer 



