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 Scheduled Timber Base — Amount of timber that could be cut each 

 year based on a 100 year rotation cutting cycle used by the 

 Forest Service in TLMP to achieve a 450 million board foot per 

 year cutting target. Data taken from Forest Service Value 

 Comparison Unit Summary dated 7-27-87. 



Sealaska Corporation — Alaska Native regional corporation es- 

 tablished under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. 

 Sealaska has 16,000 Alaska Native shareholders and is the 

 region's largest corporation. 



Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP) — The basic guide to forest 

 management on the Tongass completed in 1979. Currently being 

 revised by the Forest Service. Revision scheduled to be final in 

 April 1991 at the earliest. 



Value Comparison Dnit (VCU) — One of 867 geographic units drawn 

 up on the Tongass by the Forest Service. 



50-Year Contract Areas — Portion of the Tongass obligated to the 

 Alaska Pulp Corporation (APC) or Ketchikan Pulp Company (KPC) 

 under the terms of their 50-year contracts. Two-thirds of the 

 commercial forest land on the Tongass is in a 50-year contract 

 area. 



SO-Year Contract Area Operating Plans — Five year operating 

 plans in which the Forest Service offers the two pulp mills 

 timber. Three Operating Plans, programming over two billion 

 board feet of timber sales and hundreds of miles of new road 

 construction, will be finalized before the revision of TLMP in 

 1991 including the KPC 1989-94 Operating Plan, the APC 1981- 

 86/1986-90 Supplemental EIS, and the APC 1991-95 Operating Plan. 

 The planning of two additional five year plans will be well 

 underway before 1991. 



