§1602 Renewable Resource Program; preparation by Secretary and transmittal to President; purpose and development of program; time of preparation, updating and contents

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must prepare and send the President a recommended Renewable Resource Program. The Secretary must use information from the Forest Service and other USDA agencies, including data under section 1010a of title 7. The Program can include alternative plans and must cover protection, management, and development of the National Forest System (including roads and trails), cooperative state and private Forest Service programs, and research. The Program had to be prepared by December 31, 1975 to cover the four-year period starting October 1, 1976 and each of the next four fiscal decades. It must be updated no later than the first half of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and in the first half of every fifth fiscal year after that, each update covering the next four fiscal decades. The Program must include an inventory of public and private needs and opportunities (showing capital versus operational items); clear identification of expected outputs, results, and benefits so costs can be compared with total benefits and returns to the Federal Government; priorities with costs and outcomes; a study of personnel needed to carry out and monitor programs; and recommendations that evaluate multiple-use and sustained-yield objectives, explain owner participation, protect soil/water/air, set national goals that reflect resource interdependence, assess raw-log export/import effects on domestic timber supplies and prices, and account for the effects of global climate change on forest and rangeland conditions, including possible species range shifts and impacts on products.