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Commencing with the fiscal budget for the year 

 ending September 30, 1977, requests presented by 

 the President to the Congress governing Forest 

 Service activities shall express in qualitative and 

 quantitative terms the extent to which the programs 

 and policies projected under the budget meet the 

 policies approved by he Congress in accordance with 

 subsection (a) of this section. In any case In which 

 such budget so presented recommends a course 

 which fails to meet the policies so established, the 

 President sha'.l specifically set forth the reason or 

 reasons for requesting the Congress to approve the 

 lesser programs or policies presented. Amounts ap- 

 propriated to carry out the policies approved in ac- 

 cordance with subsection (a) of this section shall be 

 expended in accordance with the Congressional 

 Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. 



(c) Annual evaluation report to Congress of Program 

 components; time of submission. 



For the purpose of providing information that will 

 "id Congress in its oversight responsibilities and Im- 

 prove the accountability of agency expenditures and 

 activities, the Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare 

 an annual report which evaluates the component 

 elements of the Program required to be prepared by 

 section 1602 of this title which shall be furnished to 

 the Congress at the time of submission of the annual 

 fscal budget commencing with the third fiscal year 

 after August 17, 1974. 



<"(!') Rpqiiirod conten's of annual ev"liiation report. 



These annual evaluation reports shall set forth 

 progress (n implementing the Program required to 

 be prepared bv section 1602 of this title, together 

 with accomplishments of the Program as they re- 

 late to the objectives of the Assessment, Oblectlves 

 should be set forth in qualitative and quantitative 

 terms and accomplishments should be reported ac- 

 cordingly. The report shall contain appropriate 

 measurements of pertinent costs and benefits. The 

 eval'/atlon shall assess the balance between eco- 

 n'^mic factors and environmental qualltv factors. 

 Program benefits shall include, but not be limited to, 

 fnvlrnnmental onality factors such as esthetics, pub- 

 lic access, wildlife habitat recreatioral and wilder- 

 ness use. and economic factors such as the excess of 

 cost «:avln!?s over the value of foregoing benefits and 

 the rate of return on renewable resources. 



(e) Additional required contents of annual evaluation 

 report. 



The reports shall Indicate plans for implementing 

 corrective actio" and recommendations for new leg- 

 islation where warranted. 



(f) Form of annual evaluation report. 



The reports shall be structured for Congress in 

 concise summarv form with necessarv detailed data 

 in appendices. (Pub. L. 93-378, 5 7, Aug. 17, 1974, 88 

 Stat. 478.) 



§16(17. National Forest S"stpm renewaWe resources: 

 develooment and .''dnin'str-'tion hy Secretary of 

 AET'citltiirp in "ccordnnce wi*h multiple use and 

 siisfaiTiPd vield concepts for products and services; 

 tarn-pt year for operational posture of resources; 

 hudfret requests. 



The Secretarv of Agriculture shall take such ac- 



tion as will assure that the development and admin- 

 istration of the renewable resources of the National 

 Fore<;t S"^tem are in full accord with the concepts 

 for multiple use and sustained vleld of products and 

 services a,s set forth In the Multiple-Use Sustalned- 

 Yleld Act of 1960. To further these concepts, the 

 Congress herebv sets the vear 2000 as the target year 

 when the renewable resources of the National Forest 

 System shall be In an operating posture whereby all 

 backlogs of needed treatment for their restoratloij 

 shall be reduced to a current basis and the major 

 portion of planned intensive multiple-use sustained- 

 yield management procedures shall be Installed and 

 operating on an environmentally-sound basis. The 

 annual budget shall contain requests for funds for 

 an orderly program to eliminate such backlogs: Pro- 

 vided, That when the Secretary finds that (1) the 

 backlog of areas that will benefit by such treatment 

 has been eliminated, (2) the cost of treating the re- 

 mainder of such area exceeds the economic and en- 

 vironmental benefits to be secured from their treat- 

 ment, or (3) the total supplies of the renewable re- 

 sources of the United States are adequate to meet 

 the future needs of the American people, the budget 

 request for these elements of restoration may be ad- 

 Justed accordingly. (Pub. L. 93-378, § 8, Aug. 17, 

 1974, 88 Stat. 479.) 



§1608. National Forest Transportation System; Con- 

 gressional declaration of policy; time for develop- 

 ment; method of financing; financing of forest 

 development roads. 



The Congress declares that the Installation of a 

 proper system of transportation to service the Na- 

 tional Forest System, as is provided for in Public Law 

 88-657, shall be carried forward in time to meet an- 

 ticipated needs on an economical and environmen- 

 tally sound basis, and the method chosen for finan- 

 cing the construction and maintenance of the trans- 

 portation system should be such as to enhance local, 

 regional, and national benefits, except that the fi- 

 nancing of forest development roads as authorized 

 by clause (2) of section 535 of this title, shall be 

 deemed "budget authority" and "budget outlays" as 

 those terms are defined in section 1302(a) of Title 31, 

 and shall be eftective for any fiscal year only in the 

 manner required for new spending authority as 

 specified by section 1351(a) of Title 31. (Pub. L. 93- 

 378, § 9, Aug. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 479.) 



§1609. National Forest System; Congressional decla- 

 ration of constituent elements and purposes; 

 lands, etc, included within; location of Forest 

 Service offices. 



(a) Congress declares that the National Forest 

 System consists of units of federally owned forest, 

 range, and related lands throughout the United 

 States and its territories, united into a nationally 

 significant system dedicated to the long-term bene- 

 fit for present and future generations, and that It 

 is the purpose of this section to Include all such areas 

 Into one Integral system. The "National Forest Sys- 

 tem" shall include all national forest lands reserved 

 or withdrawn from the public domain of the United 

 States, all national forest lands acquired through 



