§617 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

No more than 350 million board feet of unprocessed timber from federal lands west of the 100th meridian may be sold for export in each calendar year 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973. The Secretary who manages those lands can, after a public hearing and finding that certain amounts and species are extra to domestic needs, allow those extra amounts to be exported. The Secretaries may make rules to enforce this and to stop people from swapping restricted federal timber with non-federal timber to get around the limit. They may also choose to exempt sales valued under $2,000 from the cap.

Title 16, §617

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(a)For each of the calendar years 1969 through 1973, inclusive, not more than 350 million board feet, in the aggregate, of unprocessed timber may be sold for export from the United States from Federal lands located west of the 100th meridian.

(b)After public hearing and a finding by the appropriate Secretary of the department administering Federal lands referred to in subsection (a) that specific quantities and species of unprocessed timber are surplus to the needs of domestic users and processors, such quantities and species may be designated by the said Secretary as available for export from the United States in addition to that quantity stated in subsection (a).

(c)The Secretaries of the departments administering lands referred to in subsection (a) may issue rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section, including the prevention of substitution of timber restricted from export by this section for exported non-Federal timber.

(d)In issuing rules and regulations pursuant to subsection (c), the appropriate Secretaries may include therein provisions authorizing the said Secretaries, in their discretion, to exclude from the limitations imposed by this section sales having an appraised value of less than $2,000.

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Amendments

1970—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–609 extended date for application of limitation provision from 1971 to 1973 calendar year.

§617 Exportation of unprocessed timber from Federal lands

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Title 16, §617

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