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rTT. AMTT.rA rOMfi T HFRAT T QMS 



Section 70S(a) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 

 Act (16 U.S.C. 539(a) is hereby repealed and reenacted to read as 

 fol lows; 



(a) Congress finds that the Tongass National Forest possesses rich 

 and diverse natural resources of inestimable value to the citizens of 

 Alaska and the Nation. Many of these resources are vital to the 

 regional economy of Southeast Alaska and. in differing mixes, to its 

 varied communities. To foster and clarify a balanced'raul t iple use 

 mission for management of the Tongass Forest and the importance to 

 the people of Southeast Alaska of clean air and water, timber 

 harvesting and processing, commercial fishing, raining, subsistence, 

 tourism (including sport fishing, hunting and other outdoor 

 recreation), and associated support services, and to provide for 

 broader distribution of the economic benefits of the Tongass Forest 

 to the residents of Southeast Alaska, it is hereby enacted - 



(1) The Congress authorizes and directs the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to utilize federal funds of up to 15 million dollars, 

 adiusted annually for inflation and appropriated on an annual basis, 

 to ensure a multiple use mission and carry out an intensive 

 management program. The fund is to be utilized so as to make 

 available up to 4 billion five hundred million board feet per decade 

 to maintain a timber supply to a dynamic and dependent industry 

 necessary to meet annual market demand and subject to protecting and 

 enhancing other resource industries and uses. The Secretary is 

 authorized to adiust the allowable harvest, through the Land 

 Management Planning Process, based on market conditions for timber, 

 sustained yield principles of management of maintaining fish and 

 wildlife, and recognition of other considerations of the multiple use 

 mission . 



(2) On the first day of each fiscal year, the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall transfer funds into the intensive management account 

 equal to the amount expended from the account during the prior fiscal 

 year. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to use 

 funds from the account exclusively for: 



(A) Construction of the facilities needed to access new and 

 existing timber sale areas which have been awarded or released and 

 which meet the criteria for added investments contained in the 1986 

 Forest Service Region X's Timber Sale Preparation Handbook; and 



(B) Timber stand improvement : and 



(C) The Secretary is authorized and directed to use up to 20* 

 of the intensive management funds to promote, protect and enhance 

 subsistence sport and commercial fisheries, the wildlife, and 

 recreation resources. The Secretary shall provide a report to 

 Congress annually regarding the use and effectiveness of the fund. 



(3) The Secretary is authorized to adjust the maximum clear cut 

 size to optimize economic harvesting of timber sale areas, and make 

 other adjustments deemed appropriate so long as such clear cut size 

 and other adjustments are not inconsistent with the multiple use 

 mission and objectives of the Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP) . 



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