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SEC. 101. IMTEM8IVB MAMAGEMENT PROGRAM 



Section 705(a) of ANILCA (16 U.S.C. 

 539d(a)), is aaandad by striking all that appears 

 and inserting in lieu thereof the following two 

 stibsections: 



"(a) The Congress authorizes and directs that 

 the Secretary of the Treasury shall make availeUsle 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture [the sum of at 

 least $40,000,000 annually or as much as] funds in 

 an eunoimt which the Secretary of Agriculture finds 

 is necessary to carry out a program of intensive 

 management of the commercial forest land of the 

 Tongass National Forest in order to assure the 

 availability of a sufficient supply of timber to 

 achieve an allowable sale guantity that is 

 responsive to market demand. For each fiscal 

 year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare 

 and offer for sale or release timber volximes on 

 the Tongass National Forest based upon his 

 estimate of the annual demand and the sustained 

 yield capacity of the forest. The Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall base his annual estimate upon 

 projections of future timber demand . 



"(b) Such sums as are made available to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture under subsection (a) . but 

 not to exceed $18.000,000 annually, will be drawn 

 from receipts from oil, gas timber, coal, and 

 other natural resources collected by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture and the secretary of the Interior 

 notwithstanding zmy other law providing for the 

 distribution of such receipts: PROVIDED, That 

 such funds shall not be subject to deferral or 

 rescission under the Budget Impoundment and 



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