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 PUBLIC LAW 94-588—OCT. 22, 1976

90 STAT. 2957

vegetative cover on the roadway and areas where the vegetative cover has been disturbed by the construction of the road, within ten years after the termination of the contract, permit, or lease either through artificial or natural means. Such action shall be taken unless it is later determined that the road is needed for use as a part of the National Forest Transportation System. " (c) Roads constructed on National Forest System lands shall be Road designed to standards appropriate for the intended uses, considering construction, safety, cost of transportation, and impacts on land and resources.". NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

SEC. 9. Section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources P l a n n i n g Act of 1974, as redesignated by section 2 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 34; 16 U.S.C. 473), no land now or hereafter reserved or withd r a w n from the public domain as national forests pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1103; 16 U.S.C. 471), or any act supplement a r y to and amendatory thereof, shall be returned to the public domain except by an act of Congress.".

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RENEWABLE RESOURCES

SEC. 10. Section 12 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources P l a n n i n g Act of 1974, as redesignated by section 2 of this Act, is amended by striking out the period at the end of that section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "and on the date of enactment of any legislation amendatory or supplementary thereto.".

16 USC 1610.

LIMITATIONS ON TIMBER REMOVAL; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ADVISORY BOARDS; REGULATIONS; SEVERABILITY

SEC. 11. The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources P l a n n i n g Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end thereof new sections 13 through 16 as follows: " SEC. 13. LIMITATIONS ON T I M B E R REMOVAL.— (a)

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Agriculture shall limit the sale of timber from each national forest to a quantity equal to or less than a quantity which can be removed from ., ^ such forest annually in perpetuity on a sustained-yield basis: Provided, That, in order to meet overall multiple-use objectives, the Secretary may establish an allowable sale quantity for any decade which departs from the projected long-term average sale quantity that would otherwise be established: Provided further, That any such planned departure must be consistent with the multiple-use management objectives of the land management plan. P l a n s for variations in the allowable Sales, sale quantity must be made with public participation as required by section 6(d) of this Act. I n addition, within any decade, the Secretary may sell a quantity in excess of the annual allowable sale quantity established pursuant to this section in the case of any national forest so long as the average sale quantities of timber from such national forest over the decade covered by the plan do not exceed such quantity limitation. I n those cases where a forest has less than two hundred thousand acres of commercial forest land, the Secretary may use two or more forests for purposes of determining the sustained yield. " (b) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall prohibit the Secretary from salvage or sanitation harvesting of timber stands

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