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of the state of West Virginia and which includes as much 

 timberland as found in the entire state of Louisiana. 

 Additional massive Congressionally-mandated withdrawals is a 

 clear repudiation of the ANILCA compromise which occurred only- 

 nine years ago and would fly in the face of the Tongass Land 

 Management Plan (TLMP) , instituted by Congress to deal with 

 such forest planning questions. The TLMP process is currently 

 underway and, after full public participation in the process, 

 should be completed next year. Current legislative proposals 

 to withdraw massive acreage from multiple use management is, in 

 reality, merely an attempt to circumvent rational management of 

 the Tongass National Forest by professionals after full public 

 comment and discussion as called for by the process Congress 

 ordered to be followed. Simply stated, the TLMP process should 

 be allowed to work as formulated. 



Additional massive permanent land withdrawals from 

 multiple-use management, will have a disastrous affect on KPC, 

 as current legislative proposals would remove from harvesting 

 several large areas within the purview of our contract with the 

 United States. The same disastrous result would occur from a 

 prohibition against multiple-use management (including sale and 

 harvest of timber, plus associated development such as timber 

 sale preparation and road construction) until the TLMP process 

 is concluded, since such a prohibition is for all practical 

 purposes until at least after the year 2000 because of the 

 effect of such a prohibition on the planning process. 



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