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"(b) Unless the necessity for a permanent road 

 is set forth in the forest development road system 

 plan, any road constructed on land of the National 

 Forest System in connection with a timber contract 

 or other permit or lease shall be designed with the 

 goal of reestablishing vegetative cover on the road- 

 way and areas where the vegetative cover has been 

 disturbed by the construction of the road, within 

 ten years after the termination of the contract, 

 permit, or lease either through artificial or natural 

 means. Such action shall be taken unless it is later 

 determined that the road is needed for use as a 

 part of the National Forest Transportation System. 



"(c) Roads constructed on National Forest Sys- 

 tem lands shall be designed to standards appro- 

 priate for the intended uses, considering safety, cost 

 of transportation, and impacts on land and re- 

 sources.". 



NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 



Sec 9. Section 11(a) of the Forest and Range- 

 land Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, 

 as redesignated by section 2 of this Act, is amended 

 by adding at the end thereof the following new 

 sentence: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the 

 Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 34; 16 U.S.C. 473) , no 

 land now or hereafter reserved or withdrawn from 

 the public domain as national forests pursuant to 

 the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1103; 16 U.S.C. 

 471) , or any act supplementary to and amendatory 

 thereof, shall be returned to the public domain ex- 

 cept by an act of Congress.". 



RENEWABLE RESOURCES 



Sec 10. Section 12 of the Forest and Rangeland 

 Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as re- 

 designated by section 2 of this Act, is amended by 

 striking out the period at the end of that section 

 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "and 

 on the date of enactment of any legislation amend- 

 atory or supplemetary thereto.". 



LIMITATIONS ON TIMBER REMOVAL; PUBLIC PARTICIPA- 

 TION AND ADVISORY BOARDS; REGULATIONS; SEVERA- 

 BILITY 



Sec. 11. The Forest and Rangeland Renewable 

 Resources Planning Act of 1974 is amended by add- 

 ing at the end thereof new sections 13 through 16 

 as follows: 



"Sec 13. Limitations on Timber Removal. — (a) 

 The Secretary of Agriculture shall limit the sale 

 of timber from each national forest to a quantity 

 equal to or less than a quantity which can be re- 

 moved from such forest annually in perpetuity on 

 a sustained-yield basis: Provided, That in order to 

 meet overall multiple-use objectives, the Secretary 

 may establish an allowable sale quantity for any 

 decade which departs from the projected long-term 

 average sale quantity that would otherwise be es- 

 tablished : Provided further. That any such planned 

 departure must be consistent with the multiple-use 

 management objectives of the land management 

 plan. Plans for variations in the allowable sale 

 quantity must be made with public participation 



as required by section 6(d) of this Act. In addition, 

 within any decade, the Secretary may sell a quan- 

 tity in excess of the annual allowable sale quantity 

 established pursuant to this section in the case of 

 any national forest so long as the average sale 

 quantities of timber from such national forest over 

 the decade covered by the plan do not exceed such 

 quantity limitation. In those cases where a forest 

 has less than two hundred thousand acres of com- 

 mercial forest land, the Secretary may use two or 

 more forests for purposes of determining the sus- 

 tained yield. 



"(b) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section 

 shall prohibit the Secretary from salvage or sanita- 

 tion harvesting of timber stands which are sub- 

 stantially damaged by fire, windthrow, or other 

 catastrophe, or which are in imminent danger from 

 insect or disease attack. The Secretary may either 

 substitute such timber for timber that would other- 

 wise be sold under the plan or, if not feasible, sell 

 such timber over and above the plan volume. 



"Sec. 14. Public Participation and Advisory 

 Boards. — (a) In exercising his authorities under 

 this Act and other laws applicable to the Forest 

 Service, the Secretary, by regulation, shall estabUsh 

 procedures, including public hearings where appro- 

 priate, to give the Federal, State, and local govern- 

 ments and the pubUc adequate notice and an op- 

 portunity to comment upon the formulation of 

 standards, criteria, and guidelines applicable to 

 Forest Service programs. 



"(b) In providing for public participation in the 

 planning for and management of the National 

 Forest System, the Secretary, pursuant to the Fed- 

 eral Advisory Committee Act (86 Stat. 770) and 

 other applicable law, shall establish and consult 

 such advisory boards as he deems necessary to se- 

 cure full information and advice on the execution 

 of his responsibilities. The membership of such 

 boards shall be representative of a cross section of 

 groups interested in the planning for and manage- 

 ment of the National Forest System and the vari- 

 ous types of use and enjoyment of the lands there- 

 of.". 



"Sec 15. Regulations. — The Secretary of Agri- 

 culture shall prescribe such regulations as he de- 

 termines necessary and desirable to carry out the 

 provisions of this Act. 



"Sec 16. Severability. — If any provision of this 

 Act or the application thereof to any person or 

 circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the 

 remainder of the Act and of the application of 

 such provision to other persons and circumstances 

 shall not be affected thereby.". 



CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE FOREST AND RANGE- 

 LAND renewable resources PLANNING ACT OF 1974 



Sec 12. The Forest and Rangeland Renewable 

 Resources Planning Act of 1974 is amended as 

 follows: 



(a) Section 6(a) , as redesignated by section 2 of 

 this Act, is amended by striking out "section 3" and 

 inserting in lieu thereof "section 4". 



(b) Section 8, as redesignated by section 2 of 



