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 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-298 (d) The Secretary is authorized to operate and utilize the assets of the Center as part of a newly formed "Institute of Hardwood Technology Transfer and Applied Research" (hereinafter the "Institute"). The Institute, in addition to the Center, will consist of a Director, technology transfer specialists from State and Private Forestry, the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Princeton, West Virginia, and any other organizational unit of the Department of Agriculture as the Secretary deems appropriate. The overall management of the Institute will be the responsibility of the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry. (e) The Secretary is authorized to generate revenue using the authorities provided herein. Any revenue received as part of the operation of the Institute shall be deposited into a special fund in the Treasury of the United States, known as the "Hardwood Technology Transfer and Applied Research Fund", which shall be available to the Secretary until expended, without further appropriation, in furtherance of the purposes of this section, including upkeep, management, and operation of the Institute and the pay- ment of salaries and expenses. (f) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. SEC. 344. Notwithstanding the requirements of section 1203(a) of Public Law 99-662 [100 Stat. 4263], the non-Federal share of the cost of correcting the spillway deficiency at Beach City Lake, Muskingum River Basin, Ohio, shall not exceed $141,000. SEC. 345. Notwithstanding section 343 of Public Law 105- 16 USC 497d 83, increases in recreation residence fees on the Sawtooth National note. Forest shall be implemented in fiscal year 1999 only to the extent that such fee increases do not exceed 25 percent. SEC. 346. Section 7 of the Granger-Thye Act of April 24, 1950 is amended by deleting the words "recondition and maintain," l6 USC 580d. substituting in lieu thereof the words "renovate, recondition, improve, and maintain". SEC. 347. STEWARDSHIP END RESULT CONTRACTING DEM- 16 USC 2IO4 ONSTRATION PROJECT, (a) IN GENERAL.—Until September 30, 2002, note, the Forest Service may enter into no more than twenty-eight (28) contracts with private persons and entities, of which Region One of the Forest Service shall have the authority to enter into nine (9) such contracts, to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests that meet local and rural community needs. (b) LAND MANAGEMENT GOALS.— The land management goals of a contract under subsection (a) may include, among other things— (1) road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality; (2) soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries, or other resource values; (3) setting of prescribed fires to improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of stands or to improve wildlife habitat; (4) noncommercial cutting or removing of trees or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce fire hazards, or achieve other non-commercial objectives; (5) watershed restoration and maintensince; (6) restoration and msiintenance of wildlife and fish habitat; and

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