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yearly sale offering upward or downward in any one year 

 to adjust for annual sale fluctuations to assure the 

 maintenance of 450 million average annual harvest. 



126 Cong. Rec. S. 11192 (Daily Ed. August 19, 1980). 



Congressman Udall agreed with the general thrust of Section 705: 



It is clear that any and all sums transferred to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture under Section 705 are to be 

 employed by the recipient Secretary for the purpose of 

 implementing the provisions of the Tongass Land 

 Management Plan in the Tongass National Forest. 

 Neither Section 705 nor any other section of the 

 senate bill requires or authorizes any revisions in 

 the Tongass Land Management Plan, which will continue 

 in effect unless and until it is revised at the end of 

 the initial planning period in accordance with the 

 National Forest Management Act and other applicable 

 law. 



126 Cong. Rec. H. 10544 (Daily Ed. November 12, 1980). 



Notwithstanding the clear understanding of the parties to the 

 compromise, the Wirth bill would repeal it. 



The Committee needs to think through what repeal of Section 705 

 would really mean. Since Section 705 consists of previously appropriated 

 timber sale layout and sale management monies, as well as incremental 

 monies to provide for intensive management; repeal could well mean that 

 there is no timber management money for Southeast Alaska and thus, no 

 timber program. If this is the case, the holders of the long term timber 

 sale contract will have a cause of action for failure to provide the 

 volume required by their contract. Small operators will have contract 

 action for those contracts which they are then operating and which are 

 abrogated by the lack of timber sale management money. Workers would 

 simply be laid off and dependent communities left without this important 

 taxing and indirect economic benefit source of funds. In short, repeal 

 could mean that an economic disaster for Southeast Alaska would occur. 



As the McDowell study shows, which I have attached to my 

 testimony, the loss of the pulp mill would cause a major economic disaster 



Written Testimony 

 April 25, 1988 



