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We are concerned with the anti-job arguments being made by you 

 and the groups which are advocating your bill and the termination of the 

 long term sales and the set aside of 23 new non-logging areas which your 

 bill proposes. Some people cite concern about fish and game. This 

 concern needs to be balanced. For example, the fish processors in my 

 community have told me that if the Alaska Pulp Corporation (APC) were not 

 in Sitka to help defray community utility and bonding costs, they could 

 not afford to operate. The record fish runs in Southeast Alaska also show 

 that logging and fish are compatible industries. There also appears to be 

 an increase in geune activity in Southeast Alaska in past years, resulting 

 in adjusted bag limits with regard to game. 



In addition, all of these arguments in favor of the Act were made 

 during the four years of debate on TLMP, which was the basis of Section 

 703-Section 705 compromise and thus, were considered by Congress. As 

 Senator Tsongas pointed out: 



Fortunately, the Tongass plan is done. And it shows 

 that it will work. It shows that the goals of timber 

 production, fisheries, and wildlife protection and 

 wilderness preservations can be put together in a 

 package like the Tongass law package and there will be 

 no job loss. 



126 Cong. Rec. S. 9428 (Daily Ed. July, 1980). 



Other people cite economic reasons for passage of your bill. 

 They argue that the money being spent on the Tongass results in below cost 

 sales in which the federal treasury gets considerably less in timber 

 receipts than the money it spends. This is not a valid argument for 

 amending Section 705 of ANILCA by passage of the Tongass Timber Reform Act 

 for two reasons: 



The first reason is that stumpage rates have gone up as a result 

 of improved markets in the Orient. I believe there has been a fundamental 

 permanent change in the market structure caused by the change in the 

 yen-dollar relationship. This will result in increased stumpage share 



Written Testimony 

 April 25, 1988 



