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[CITE: 16USC539e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 539e. Reports


(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,\1\ and (5) the impact 
of timber management on subsistence resources, wildlife, and fisheries 
habitats.
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(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..\2\
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(Pub. L. 96-487, title VII, Sec. 706, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2420; Pub. 
L. 101-626, title I, Sec. 104, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4427; Pub. L. 
103-437, Sec. 6(d)(31), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' 
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.
    1990--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-626, Sec. 104(a), struck out at end 
``If, at any time after December 2, 1980, the Secretary finds that the 
available land base in the Tongass National Forest is inadequate to 
maintain the timber supply from the Tongass National Forest to dependent 
industry at the rate of four billion five hundred million foot board 
measure per decade, he shall include such information in his report.''
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-626, Sec. 104(a), added cl. (5).
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-626, Sec. 104(b), substituted ``the 
southeast Alaska commercial fishing industry, and the Alaska Land Use 
Council.'' for ``and the Alaska Land Use Council''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.


                  Termination of Reporting Requirements

    For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. 
(b) of this section relating to reporting to Congress, every two years, 
on the status of the Tongass National Forest, see section 3003 of Pub. 
L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, 
Money and Finance, and page 48 of House Document No. 103-7.


 Study Regarding Feasibility of Acquiring Previously Harvested Private 
                    Lands in Tongass National Forest

    Section 501 of Pub. L. 101-626 directed the Secretary, no later than 
one year after Nov. 28, 1990, to complete a study regarding feasibility 
of acquiring private lands located within boundary of the Tongass 
National Forest, which have been significantly harvested and to transmit 
the study to specific committees of Congress.
