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Don Bremner, President of the Yakutat Alaska Native Brother- 

 hood; Ernestine Hanlon from Hoonah; Charles Poulson from the 

 Sealaska Corporation; James Senna, Chief Executive Officer, Shee 

 Atika, Inc.; Ron Sparks, Klukwan, Inc.; Carlton Smith, Landless 

 Urban Indians; and Austin Hammond, Chilkoot, Haines. 



We thank you all very much for being here, being with us, and 

 Mr. Bremner, why do you not begin? 



STATEMENT OF DON BREMNER, CHAIRMAN, YAKUTAT ALASKA 

 NATIVE BROTHERHOOD CAMP 13 



Mr. Bremner. Thank you, Senator Wirth. My name is Don 

 Bremner. I am Chairman of the Yakutat A.N.B. Camp 13. I am 

 also Chairman of the Yakutat Fishermen's Association and a 

 member of the Board of Directors of the Yak-Tat Kwaan, Inc., Cor- 

 poration, our native corporation formed under ANCSA of 197 L 



As Chairman of the Yakutat ANB. I am here to say that our 

 camp supports your Bill S. 346 and that we oppose Senator Mur- 

 kowski's Bill S. 237. 



After reviewing both S. 346 and S. 237, including all material 

 available to our ANB. Camp, it is obvious that S. 346 comes closer 

 to our camp goals, needs, and community desires of protecting the 

 Yakutat Forelands from run-away logging. We view S. 346 as bal- 

 ancing all uses and resources within the Tongass National Forest 

 with important accountability measures attached and bringing 

 overdue cost benefit factors into a more realistic focus. However, to 

 add strength to S. 346, our A.N.B. Camp recommends that you 

 clearly add: 



One, in S. 346, Title III, sections 301 and 302, that a 20-year mor- 

 atorium be placed on the 232,962 acres of the Yakutat Forelands. 



Two, that there be established Regional Tongass Regulatory 

 Boards. 



Three, that there be an additional economic plan established, 

 based upon market supply and demand and a tax plan for all 

 direct Tongass user groups of all TNF resources. 



Four, that there be a section establishing Regional Research and 

 Development Branches within the USES. 



In other areas, our ANB. Camp supports the positions of the City 

 of Yakutat and Sealaska position paper on the TNF, dated 1/26/89. 

 We further support the position that: 



One, that ANILCA Section 705 be repealed and, long-term con- 

 tracts 12-11-010-1545 and AlOfs-1042 between U.S. and APC and 

 U.S. & KPC, respectively, be terminated. These amount to unfair 

 trade practices and do not allow for proper land management prin- 

 ciples. 



Three, that an ASQ be an average of 285 million board feet per 

 year and no higher than 300 million board feet per year, unless the 

 market demand is present. 



Four, that the automatic $40 million TSF appropriation be re- 

 pealed and replaced with an as needed, as cost/benefit dollar 

 amount equivalent to the timber volume sales. 



Five, there be no pre-roading programs in any Tongass sale area 

 prior to a proper timber sale, based upon market supply and 

 demand. Obviously, since the inception of ANILCA 705, the oper- 



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