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social disruption to communities throughout 

 Southeast Alaska. 



When people are put out of work in Southeast Alaska, it 

 is not like losing a job in the Lower 48. There are no roads 

 connecting communities. There are few alternative jobs. Usually, 

 losing one's job means leaving Southeast Alaska with major atten- 

 dant family dislocations and impacts. The impacts on people 

 deserve some consideration. 



Finally, making land allocations in advance of TLMP makes 

 a mockery of the planning process. Congress put the Resources 

 Planning Act into operation and amended it with the National Forest 

 Management Act of 1976. The idea of the planning process is to 

 determine, among other things, which lands should be set aside in 

 an administrative category. To have Congress designate those lands 

 a few months in advance of the planning process because the 

 environmentalists do not trust the Forest Service is a bad prece- 

 dent. At least this Committee should see what the proposals of the 

 Forest Service are without trying to influence those proposals by 

 legislation before they are made. 



If this Committee makes the mistake of allowing environ- 

 mental groups to dictate the results of the process in advance of 

 the forest planning process, you can be assured that each of the 

 forest plans on other National Forests will be brought before you 

 to be tailored in a way most advantageous to the environmental 

 community. This would be a mistake. 



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