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(a) Clarification of che mission of the National 

 Forest in the Tongass to include an allowable harvest of up to 

 4.5 billion board feet per decade depending on market 

 conditions and subject to multiple use values of the Tongass 

 National Forest. (Maintain existing jobs in the forest while 

 protecting fish and wildlife and their habitat.) 



(b) Establishment of a specific intensive manage- 

 ment fund to ensure that the U.S. Forest Service is able to 

 make marginal timber stands viable sales for the industry and 

 sustain other values. 



(c) Setting aside 12 areas for protection due to 

 the high values of fish and wildlife production in those 

 areas. 



(d) Providing for land trades, exchanges, or 

 purchases of nonwilderness lands to increase the timber base 

 for allowable harvest level (to include potential use of 

 harvested land) . 



(e) Establishment of an economic diversification 

 fund of grants and loans to provide opportunities to 

 strengthen the Southeastern Alaska economy. 



2. The Assembly adds the Mansfield Peninsula portion of 

 Admiralty Island to the list of public lands within the 

 Tongass National Forest that are designated as protected 

 noncommercial timber areas, and urges the Southeast Conference 

 to amend the policy position at page 9 to add the Mansfield 

 Peninsula to Section 709(a)(1) of the Alaska National Interest 

 Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) . 



3. The Assembly amends the final sentence in Section 

 705(b)(2)(A) of ANILCA, at page 8 of the policy position, to 

 read: "The report shall be prepared in consultation with the 

 communities of Southeast Alaska." The Assembly urges the 

 Southeast Conference to so amend the policy position. 



4. The Assembly amends the final sentence in Section 

 709(a)(2) of ANILCA, at page 9 of the policy position, to 

 read: "The report shall be prepared in consultation with the 

 communities of Southeast Alaska." The Assembly urges the 

 Southeast Conference to so amend the policy position. 



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