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pxirchase, exchange, donation, or other means, the 

 national grasslands and land utilization projects ad- 

 ministered under title ni of the Bankhead-Jones 

 Farm Tenant Act, and other lands, waters, or In- 

 terests therein which are administered by the For- 

 est Service or are designated for administration 

 through the Forest Service as a part of the system, 

 (b) The on-the-ground field ofBces, field sujjervl- 

 sory offices, and regional ofQces of the Forest Serv- 

 ice shall be so situated as to provide the optimum 

 level of convenient, useful services to the public, 

 giving priority to the maintenance and location of 

 facilities in rural areas and towns near the national 

 forest and Forest Service program locations in efi- 

 cordance with the standards in section 3122(b) of 

 Title 42. (Pub. L. 93-378, 5 10. Aug. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 

 480.) 



§ 1610. Implementation of provisions by Secretary of 

 Agriculture; utilization of information and data 

 of other organizations; avoidance of duplication 

 of planning, etc, definition of "renewable re- 

 source". 



In carrying out this chapter, the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture shall utilize information and data avail- 

 able from other Federal, State, and private organi- 

 zations and shall avoid duplication and overlap of 

 resource assessment and program planning efforts of 

 other Federal agencies. The term "renewable re- 

 sources" shall be construed to involve those matters 

 within the scope of responsibilities and authorities of 

 the Forest Service on August 17. 1974. (Pub. L. 93- 

 378, i 11, Aug. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 480.) 



12. Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Amendments 



P.L. 94-588 (90 Stat. 2949) 



AN ACT 



To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Re- 

 sources Planning Act of 1974, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the United States of America in Con- 

 gress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the 

 "National Forest Management Act of 1976". 



FIIfDINGS 



Sec. 2. The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Re- 

 sources Planning Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 476; 16 

 U.S.C. 1601-1610) is amended by redesignating 

 section 2 through 11 as sections 3 through 12, re- 

 spectively; and by adding a new section 2 as 

 follows: 

 "Sec. 2. Findings. — ^The Congress finds that — 



"(1) the management of the Nation's renew- 

 able resources is highly complex and the uses, 

 demand for, and supply of the various resources 

 are subject to change over time; 



"(2) the public interest is served by the Forest 

 Service, Department of Agriculture, in coopera- 

 tion with other agencies, assessing the Nation's 

 renewable resources, and developing and pre- 

 paring a national renewable resource program, 

 which is periodically reviewed and updated; 



"(3) to serve the national interest, the renew- 

 able resource program must be based on a com- 

 prehensive assessment of present and anticipated 

 uses, demand for, and supply of renewable re- 

 sources from the Nation's public and private 

 forests and rangelands, through analysis of en- 

 vironmental and economic impacts, coordination 

 of multiple use and sustained yield opportuni- 

 ties as provided in the Multiple-Use Sustained- 

 Yield Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 215; 16 U.S.C. 528- 

 531) , and public participation in the development 

 of the program; 



"(4) the new knowledge derived from coor- 

 dinated public and private research programs will 

 promote a sound technical and ecological base 

 for effective management, use, and protection 

 of the Nation's renewable resources; 



"(5) inasmuch as the majority of the Nation's 

 forests and rangeland is under private. State, 

 and local governmental management and the 

 Nation's major capacity to produce goods and 

 services is based on these nonfederaUy managed 

 renewable resources, the Federal CJovemment 

 should be a catalyst to encourage and assist 

 these owners in the efificient long-term use and 

 improvement of these lands and their renew- 

 able resources consistent with the principles of 

 sustained yield and multiple tise; 



"(6) the Forest Service, by virtue of its stat- 

 utory authority for management of the Na- 

 tional Forest System, research and cooperative 

 programs, and its role as an agency in the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, has both a respon- 

 sibility and an opportunity to be a leader in 

 assuring that the Nation maintains a natural re- 

 source conservation posture that will meet the 

 requirements of our people in perpetuity; and 



"(7) recycled timber product materials are as 

 much a part of our renewable forest resources 

 as are the trees from which they originally 

 came, and in order to extend our timber and 

 timber fiber resources and reduce pressures for 

 timber production from Federal lands, the For- 

 est Service should expand its research in the 

 use of recycled and waste timber product ma- 

 terials, develop techniques for the substitution 

 of these secondary materials for primary ma- 

 terials, and promote and encourage the use of 

 recycled timber product materials.". 



