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[CITE: 16USC476]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 476. Repealed. Pub. L. 94-588, Sec. 13, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 
        Stat. 2958
        
    Section, acts June 4, 1897, ch. 2, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 35; June 9, 
1900, ch. 804, 31 Stat. 661; Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 
628; June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, 34 Stat. 684; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 457, 
Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 1132; May 27, 1952, ch. 337, 66 Stat. 95, authorized 
the Secretary of Agriculture to sell timber from national forests. See 
section 472a of this title.


                  Validation of Timber Sales Contracts

    Section 15 of Pub. L. 94-588 provided that:
    ``(a) Timber sales made pursuant to the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 
Stat. 35, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 476), prior to the date of enactment of 
this section [Oct. 22, 1976] shall not be invalid if the timber was sold 
in accord with Forest Service silvicultural practices and sales 
procedures in effect at the time of the sale, subject to the provisions 
of subsection (b) of this section.
    ``(b) The Secretary of Agriculture is directed, in developing five-
year operating plans under the provisions of existing fifty-year timber 
sales contracts in Alaska, to revise such contracts to make them 
consistent with the guidelines and standards provided for in the Forest 
and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended [16 
U.S.C. 1600 et seq.], and to reflect such revisions in the contract 
price of timber. Any such action shall not be inconsistent with valid 
contract rights approved by the final judgment of a court of competent 
jurisdiction.''
