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Eliminating the exemption for the Tongass from Section 6(k) 

 of NFMA, which requires the identification of lands not 

 suitable for timber production. 



Expanding the required review of Tongass management to 

 address the impacts of timber management on wildlife and 

 fisheries habitat. 



Requiring the termination of the two 50-year contracts and 

 replacing them with short-term sales that are competitively 

 bid. 



Providing a temporary moratorium on logging and reading in 

 23 areas with high wildlife, recreation, svibsistence, and 

 scientific values. 



Directing the Forest Service to revise the Tongass Land 

 Management Plan to reflect proposed changes in ANILCA 

 strengthening protection of non-timber resources. 



Repealing Sections 705(a) and 705(d) of ANILCA would allow 

 management of the Tongass National Forest to proceed under the 

 same funding mechanisms, harvest level determinations, and land 

 suitability requirements as every other National Forest. These 

 changes will allow Tongass managers to make forest management 

 decisions that adequately reflect both market conditions and 

 environmental safeguards. Following the passage of S. 346, the 

 Forest Service would be able to develop resource management 

 policies for the Tongass National Forest that reflect the 

 forest's unique lUsility to provide both commodity and non- 

 commodity resources to southeast Alaska and the nation. 



Elimination of the two long-term contracts would also 

 provide both economic and environmental benefits for the region. 



