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16 U.S.C. § 539d — National forest timber utilization program
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**(a) Tongass National Forest timber supply; satisfaction of certain market demands** Subject to appropriations, other applicable law, and the requirements of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–588), except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the Secretary shall, to the extent consistent with providing for the multiple use and sustained yield of all renewable forest resources, seek to provide a supply of timber from the Tongass National Forest which (1) meets the annual market demand for timber from such forest and (2) meets the market demand from such forest for each planning cycle.
**(b) Insured and guaranteed loan program for purchasers of national forests materials in Alaska; authorization of appropriations**
(1) The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish a special program of insured or guaranteed loans to purchasers of national forest materials in Alaska to assist such purchasers in the acquisition of equipment and the implementation of new technologies which lead to the utilization of wood products which might otherwise not be utilized. The Secretary is authorized to promulgate such regulations as he deems appropriate to define eligibility requirements for the participation in the loan program and the terms and conditions applicable to loans made under the program. Except as otherwise provided in this section or regulations promulgated specifically for this loan program, such program shall be carried out in a manner which is consistent with other authorities available to the Secretary.
(2) To carry out the special loan program established by this section, there are hereby authorized beginning after the fiscal year 1980 to be appropriated $5,000,000 from National Forest Fund receipts, to be deposited in a special fund
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**(a) Tongass National Forest timber supply; satisfaction of certain market demands** Subject to appropriations, other applicable law, and the requirements of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–588), except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the Secretary shall, to the extent consistent with providing for the multiple use and sustained yield of all renewable forest resources, seek to provide a supply of timber from the Tongass National Forest which (1) meets the annual market demand for timber from such forest and (2) meets the market demand from such forest for each planning cycle.
**(b) Insured and guaranteed loan program for purchasers of national forests materials in Alaska; authorization of appropriations**
(1) The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish a special program of insured or guaranteed loans to purchasers of national forest materials in Alaska to assist such purchasers in the acquisition of equipment and the implementation of new technologies which lead to the utilization of wood products which might otherwise not be utilized. The Secretary is authorized to promulgate such regulations as he deems appropriate to define eligibility requirements for the participation in the loan program and the terms and conditions applicable to loans made under the program. Except as otherwise provided in this section or regulations promulgated specifically for this loan program, such program shall be carried out in a manner which is consistent with other authorities available to the Secretary.
(2) To carry out the special loan program established by this section, there are hereby authorized beginning after the fiscal year 1980 to be appropriated $5,000,000 from National Forest Fund receipts, to be deposited in a special fund in the Treasury of the United States to remain available until expended. Repayments of principal and interest and other recoveries on loans authorized by this section shall be credited to this fund and shall remain available until expended in order to carry out the purposes of this section.
**(c) Study on increase of timber yields on national forest lands in Alaska; transmittal to Congress** Within three years after December 2, 1980, the Secretary shall prepare and transmit to the Senate and House of Representatives a study of opportunities (consistent with the laws and regulations applicable to the management of the National Forest System) to increase timber yields on national forest lands in Alaska.
**(d) Identification of lands not suited for timber production; consideration of economic factors unnecessary** All provisions of section 6(k) of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 ([16 U.S.C. 1604(k)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1604/k&num=0&edition=prelim)) shall apply to the Tongass National Forest except that the Secretary need not consider economic factors in the identification of lands not suited for timber production.
**(e) Protection of riparian habitat; maintenance of buffer zones in Tongass National Forest; relocation of prior independent sale or released volume** In order to assure protection of riparian habitat, the Secretary shall maintain a buffer zone of no less than one hundred feet in width on each side of all Class I streams in the Tongass National Forest, and on those Class II streams which flow directly into a Class I stream, within which commercial timber harvesting shall be prohibited, except where independent national forest timber sales have already been sold prior to March 1, 1990, or where volume has been released prior to March 1, 1990, to either the Alaska Pulp Corporation or the Ketchikan Pulp Company pursuant to the long-term timber sale contracts numbered 12–11–010–1545 and A10fs–1042 respectively. If such an independent timber sale or released volume is within the buffer zone, the Secretary shall make every effort to relocate such independent sale or released volume to an area outside of the buffer zone. The Secretary shall use best management practices, as defined in the Region 10 Soil and Water Conservation handbook 11 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. (FSH 2509.22), January 1990, to assure the protection of riparian habitat on streams or portions of streams not protected by such buffer zones. For the purposes of this subsection, the terms “Class I streams” and “Class II streams” mean the same as they do in the Region 10 Aquatic Habitat Management Handbook (FSH 2609.24), June 1986.
**(f) Timber supply from Tongass National Forest for purchasers qualifying as “small business concerns”** Subject to appropriations, the provisions of this Act and other applicable law (including but not limited to the requirements of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–588)) and in order to assure the continuation of the Small Business Administration timber sale program, the Secretary shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and to the extent consistent with providing for the multiple use and sustained yield of all renewable forest resources, seek to provide a supply of timber from the Tongass National Forest to those purchasers qualifying as “small business concerns” under the Small Business Act as amended ([15 U.S.C. 631](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section631&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
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**(a) Authorization; rules and regulations; appraised value as minimum sale price** For the purpose of achieving the policies set forth in the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 215; [16 U.S.C. 528–531](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section528–531&num=0&edition=prelim)) and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 476) [[16 U.S.C. 1600](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1600&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may sell, at not less than appraised value, trees, portions of trees, or forest products located on National Forest System lands.
**(b) Designation on map; prospectus** All advertised timber sales shall be designated on maps, and a prospectus shall be available to the public and interested potential bidders.
**(c) Terms and conditions of contract** The length and other terms of the contract shall be designed to promote orderly harvesting consistent with the principles set out in section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 1604](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1604&num=0&edition=prelim)]. Unless there is a finding by the Secretary of Agriculture that better utilization of the various forest resources (consistent with the provisions of the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 [[16 U.S.C. 528–531](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section528–531&num=0&edition=prelim)]) will result, sales contracts shall be for a period not to exceed ten years: Provided, That such period may be adjusted at the discretion of the Secreta
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**(a) Establishment of units** In order to preserve for the benefit, use, education, and inspiration of present and future generations certain lands and waters in the State of Alaska that contain nationally significant natural, scenic, historic, archeological, geological, scientific, wilderness, cultural, recreational, and wildlife values, the units described in the following titles are hereby established.
**(b) Preservation and protection of scenic, geological, etc., values** It is the intent of Congress in this Act to preserve unrivaled scenic and geological values associated with natural landscapes; to provide for the maintenance of sound populations of, and habitat for, wildlife species of inestimable value to the citizens of Alaska and the Nation, including those species dependent on vast relatively undeveloped areas; to preserve in their natural state extensive unaltered arctic tundra, boreal forest, and coastal rainforest ecosystems; to protect the resources related to subsistence needs; to protect and preserve historic and archeological sites, rivers, and lands, and to preserve wilderness resource values and related recreational opportunities including but not limited to hiking, canoeing, fishing, and sport hunting, within large arctic and subarctic wildlands and on freeflowing rivers; and to maintain opportunities for scientific research and undisturbed ecosystems.
**(c) Subsistence way of life for rural residents** It is further the intent and purpose of this Act consistent with management of fish and wildlife in accordance with recognized scientific principles and the purposes for which each conservation system unit is established, designated, or expanded by or pursuant to this Act, to provide the opportunity for rural residents engaged in a subsistence way
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**(a) Timber supply and demand in southeastern Alaska** The Secretary is directed to monitor timber supply and demand in southeastern Alaska and report annually thereon to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
**(b) Status of Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska; contents** Within five years from December 2, 1980, and every two years thereafter the Secretary shall review and report to Congress on the status of the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska. This report shall include, but not be limited to, (1) the timber harvest levels in the forest since December 2, 1980; (2) the impact of wilderness designation on the timber, fishing, and tourism industry in southeast Alaska; (3) measures instituted by the Forest Service to protect fish and wildlife in the forest; (4) the status of the small business set aside program in the Tongass Forest,11 So in original. The comma probably should be a semicolon. and (5) the impact of timber management on subsistence resources, wildlife, and fisheries habitats.
**(c) Cooperation and consultation** The study required by this section shall be conducted in cooperation and consultation with the State, affected Native Corporations, the southeast Alaska timber industry, the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, the southeast Alaska commercial fishing industry, and the Alaska Land Use Council..22 So in original.
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**(a) Designation of wilderness areas; filing of maps and descriptions with Congressional committees; correction of errors; public records; availability of records in regional offices** All areas within the national forests classified at least 30 days before September 3, 1964 by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Chief of the Forest Service as “wilderness”, “wild”, or “canoe” are hereby designated as wilderness areas. The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
(1) Within one year after September 3, 1964, file a map and legal description of each wilderness area with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this chapter: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made.
(2) Maintain, available to the public, records pertaining to said wilderness areas, including maps and legal descriptions, copies of regulations governing them, copies of public notices of, and reports submitted to Congress regarding pending additions, eliminations, or modifications. Maps, legal descriptions, and regulations pertaining to wilderness areas within their respective jurisdictions also shall be available to the public in the offices of regional foresters, national forest supervisors, and forest rangers.
**(b) Review by Secretary of Agriculture of classifications as primitive areas; Presidential recommendations to Congress; approval of Congress; size of primitive areas; Gore Range-Eagles Nest Primitive Area, Colorado** The Secretary of Agriculture shall, within ten years after September 3, 1964, review, as to its suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness, each area in th
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**(a) Aid, counsel, assistance, etc., to small business concerns** The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small business is encouraged and developed. It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government (including but not limited to contracts or subcontracts for maintenance, repair, and construction) be placed with small-business enterprises, to insure that a fair proportion of the total sales of Government property be made to such enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
**(b) Assistance to compete in international markets**
(1) It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Federal Government, through the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, acting through the Associate Administrator for International Trade, and in cooperation with the Department of Commerce and other relevant State and Federal agencies, should aid and assist small businesses, as defined under this chapter, to increase their ability to compete in international markets by—
(A) enhancing their abil
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The Congress finds that—
(1) the management of the Nation’s renewable 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 cooperation with other agencies, assessing the Nation’s renewable resources, and developing and preparing a national renewable resource program, which is periodically reviewed and updated;
(3) to serve the national interest, the renewable resource program must be based on a comprehensive assessment of present and anticipated uses, demand for, and supply of renewable resources from the Nation’s public and private forests and rangelands, through analysis of environmental and economic impacts, coordination of multiple use and sustained yield opportunities as provided in the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 215; [16 U.S.C. 528–531](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section528–531&num=0&edition=prelim)), and public participation in the development of the program;
(4) the new knowledge derived from coordinated 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 nonfederally managed renewable resources, the Federal Government should be a catalyst to encourage and assist these owners in the efficient long-term use and improvement of these lands and their renewable resources consistent with the principles of sustained yield and
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Page 748
TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 631
Section 618, act June 30, 1947, ch. 166, title II, § 208, 61
Stat. 209, related to purchase and sale of surplus prop-
erty, and was repealed by act of May 25, 1948, ch. 334,
§ 7, 62 Stat. 265.
Section 619, act July 29, 1947, ch. 346, title II, § 201, 61
Stat. 515, related to limitations on use of funds of the
Corporation, which Corporation was abolished by sec-
tion 6 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1957, eff. June 30, 1957, 22
FR 4633, 71 Stat. 647. Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1957 is set out
preceding section 601 of this title.
CHAPTER 14A—AID TO SMALL BUSINESS
Sec.
631.
Declaration of policy.
631a.
Congressional declaration of small business
economic policy.
631b.
Reports to Congress; state of small business.
631c.
Small Business Manufacturing Task Force.
632.
Definitions.
633.
Small Business Administration.
633a.
Detailed justification for proposed changes in
budget requests.
634.
General powers.
634a.
Office of Advocacy within Small Business Ad-
ministration; Chief Counsel for Advocacy.
634b.
Primary functions of Office of Advocacy.
634c.
Additional duties of Office of Advocacy.
634d.
Staff and powers of Office of Advocacy.
634e.
Assistance of Government agencies.
634f.
Reports.
634g.
Budgetary line item and authorization of ap-
propriations.
635.
Deposit of moneys; depositaries, custodians,
and fiscal agents; contributions to employ-
ees’ compensation funds.
636.
Additional powers.
636a.
Repealed.
636b.
Disaster loan interest rates.
636c.
Age of applicant for disaster loans.
636d.
Disaster aid to major sources of employment.
636e.
Definitions.
636f.
Coordination of efforts between the Adminis-
trator and the Internal Revenue Service to
expedite loan processing.
636g.
Developmen
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**(a) Development, maintenance, and revision by Secretary as part of program; coordination** As a part of the Program provided for by [section 1602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1602&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall develop, maintain, and, as appropriate, revise land and resource management plans for units of the National Forest System, coordinated with the land and resource management planning processes of State and local governments and other Federal agencies.
**(b) Criteria** In the development and maintenance of land management plans for use on units of the National Forest System, the Secretary shall use a systematic interdisciplinary approach to achieve integrated consideration of physical, biological, economic, and other sciences.
**(c) Incorporation of standards and guidelines by Secretary; time of completion; progress reports; existing management plans** The Secretary shall begin to incorporate the standards and guidelines required by this section in plans for units of the National Forest System as soon as practicable after October 22, 1976, and shall attempt to complete such incorporation for all such units by no later than September 30, 1985. The Secretary shall report to the Congress on the progress of such incorporation in the annual report required by [section 1606(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1606/c&num=0&edition=prelim). Until such time as a unit of the National Forest System is managed under plans developed in accordance with this subchapter, the management of such unit may continue under existing land and resource management plans.
**(d) Public participation and consultation**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shal
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Page 1952
TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 1603
(D) state national goals that recognize the
interrelationships between and interdepend-
ence within the renewable resources;
(E) evaluate the impact of the export and
import of raw logs upon domestic timber
supplies and prices; and
(F) account for the effects of global cli-
mate change on forest and rangeland condi-
tions, including potential effects on the geo-
graphic ranges of species, and on forest and
rangeland products.
(Pub. L. 93–378, § 4, formerly § 3, Aug. 17, 1974, 88
Stat. 477, renumbered § 4 and amended Pub. L.
94–588, §§ 2, 5, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2949, 2951;
Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIV, § 2408(b), Nov. 28,
1990, 104 Stat. 4061; Pub. L. 115–141, div. O, title
II, § 208(b)(2), Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 1066.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, re-
ferred to in text, is Pub. L. 86–517, June 12, 1960, 74 Stat.
215, which is classified generally to sections 528 to 531
of this title. For complete classification of this Act to
the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 528
of this title and Tables.
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, re-
ferred to in text, is Pub. L. 91–190, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat.
852, which is classified generally to chapter 55 (§ 4321 et
seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title note set out under section 4321 of Title 42
and Tables.
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–141 substituted ‘‘Secretary’’ for
‘‘Secretary of Agriculture’’ in introductory provisions.
1990—Par. (5)(F). Pub. L. 101–624 added subpar. (F).
1976—Par. (4). Pub. L. 94–588 substituted ‘‘implement
and monitor’’ for ‘‘satisfy’’.
Par. (5). Pub. L. 94–588 added par. (5).
Execu
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 539c
cluding but not limited to water quality and
water quantity) or other fishery values; and
(B) maintaining present and continued
productivity of the habitat of anadromous
fish and other foodfish which might be af-
fected by the mining and other activities
proposed to be conducted in accordance with
such plan or such stages of the plan of oper-
ations;
(4)(A) the Secretary shall ensure, to the
maximum extent feasible, that the cumulative
effects of activities carried out under the oper-
ating plan will not interfere with the ability
to collect baseline information needed by the
Secretary to evaluate the effects of various
stages of the operating plan on the fishery
habitat and productivity of such habitats;
(B) the Secretary shall review such plan and
mining activities on at least an annual basis.
With respect to any mining or associated ac-
tivities, the Secretary, if he determines upon
notice and hearing, that the activities are
harmful to the continued productivity of
anadromous fish, or other foodfish populations
or fishery habitat, shall require a modification
of the plan to eliminate or mitigate, if nec-
essary, the harmful effects of such activities;
and
(5) upon a finding by the Secretary that a
mining activity conducted as a part of a min-
ing operation exists which constitutes a threat
of irreparable harm to anadromous fish, or
other foodfish populations or their habitat,
and that immediate correction is required to
prevent such harm, he may require such activ-
ity to be suspended for not to exceed seven
days, provided the activity may be resumed at
the end of said seven-day period unless other-
wise required by a United States district
court.
(c) Authority of State of Alaska to manage fish
a
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