A bill to provide for the full recovery of the Federal Government's costs of selling timber on national forest lands through the implementation of a legal minimum bid, to require site-specific identification of national forest lands that are economically unsuitable for timber harvesting, to remove those lands from the base of suitable timber and make associated adjustments in the allowable sale quantity, and for other purposes.
National Forest Timber Sales Cost Recovery Act of 1992 - Amends the National Forest Management Act of 1976 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture, as of October 1, 1997, from selling or offering to sell National Forest System timber for which revenues from the sale are less than the legal minimum bid (minimum sale revenues needed to meet or exceed sale expenses). Sets forth transition sale provisions for FY 1993 through 1997.
Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary to identify System lands as unsuitable for timber production if anticipated net timber sale revenues are less than zero.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
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