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 PUBLIC LAW 94-588—OCT. 22, 1976 budget foir ^scal year 1978, the amount and location by forests and States and by productivity class, where practicable, of all lands in the Natrpnal Forest System where objectives of land management plans indicate the need to reforest areas that have been cut-over or otherwise denuded or deiorested, and all lands with stands of trees that are not growing at their best potential rate of growth. All national forest lands treated frdin year to year shall be examined after the first and third growing sealSons and certified by the Secretary in the report provided for under thi^ subsection as to stocking rate, growth rate in relation to potential and other pertinent measures. Any lands not certified as satisfactory shall be returned to the backlog and scheduled for prompt treatment. The level and types of treatment shall be those which secure the most effective mix of multiple use benefits. "(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9 of this Act, the Secretary shall annually for eight years following the enactment of this subsection, transmit to the Congress in the manner provided in this subsection an estimate of the sums necessary to be appropriated, in addition to the funds available from other sources, to replant and otherwise treat an acreage equal to the acreage to be cut over that year, plus a sufficient portion of the backlog of lands found to be in need of treatment to eliminate the backlog within the eight-yeai" period. After such eight-year period, the Secretary shall transmit annually to the Congress an estimate of the sums necessary to replant and otherwise treat all lands being cut over and maintain planned timber production on all other forested lands in the National Forest System so as to prevent the development of a backlog of needed work larger than the needed work at the beginning of the fiscal year. The Secretary's estimate of sums necessary, in addition to the sums available under other authorities, for accomplishment of the reforestation and other treatment of National Forest System lands under this section shall be provided annually for inclusion in the President's budget and shall also be transmitted to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate together with the annual report provided for under section 8(c) of this Act at the time of submission of the President's budget to the Congress beginning with the budget for fiscal year 1978. The sums estimated as necessary for reforestation and other treatment shall include moneys needed to secure seed, grow seedlings, prepare sites, plant trees, thin, remove deleterious growth and underbrush, build fence to exclude livestock and adverse wildlife from regeneration areas and otherwise establish and improve growing forests to secure planned production of trees and other multiple use values. "(3) Effective for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1977, and each fiscal year thereafter, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of reforesting and treating lands in the National Forest System $200,000,000 annually to meet requirements of this subsection (d). All sums appropriated for the purposes of this subsection shall be available until expended. "(e) The Secretary shall submit an annual report to the Congress on the amounts, types, and uses of herbicides and pesticides used in the National Forest System, including the beneficial or adverse effects of such uses.".

90 STAT. 2951

Treated lands. Examination, certification.

Replanting and treating acreages, funds, estimates; transmittal to Congress.

Annual estimates transmittal to Congress.

Appropriation authorization.

Annual report to Congress.

RENEWABLE RESOURCE PROGRAM

SEC. 5. Section 4 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as redesignated by section 2 of this Act, is amended by striking out the word "and" at the end of paragraph (3); striking out the word "satisfy" and inserting in lieu thereof "implement and monitor" in paragraph (4); striking out the period at the

16 USC 1602.

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