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Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 806 (97th)failed

An amendment to strike the following withdrawals in the bill: 1) National Forest System Lands specified in Executive Communication 1504, 2) Wilderness Study Areas designated by acts of Congress, and 3) National Forest System Lands identified for further planning in Executive Communication 1504. These lands are withdrawn from possible leasing at all or for specified lengths of time in the bill. These lands are specifically excepted from such withdrawals from leasing in the amendment.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 35 (98th)failed

An amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and substitute a new text. The new text designates nine different areas as wilderness areas and three areas for a study as future wilderness areas. The areas are to be administered by the Secretary according to existing Wilderness legislation. The amendment also specifies that land not designated by this amendment, not already part of the wilderness system, nor part of the Hells Canyon site are to be managed as multipurpose sites, and not as wilderness. This restriction on new wilderness areas is to be in effect until the year 2000. Further studies in Oregon for wilderness designation are prohibited unless expressly authorized by Congress. (The amendment reduces the land to be set aside in the bill).

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 833 (100th)failed

An amendment to provide compensation to any workers who are certified to have lost their jobs as a result of the encactment of the provisions of the bill. Specifically, the amendment would require the Agriculture Department, in consultation with the Labor Department, to provide financial assistance to such workers for a period of up to six years. The proposed assistance would include, but not be limited to, continued health and welfare benefits, unemployment compensation or severance pay, layoff and vacation benefits, and retraining and relocation benefits.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 829 (100th)failed

A substitute amendment which retains the existing timber harvest goals, but would allow the Agriculture Department to reivse the goal based on industry demand. The amendment creates a new advisory panel consisting of representatives from local and State governments, environmental groups, timber and other commercial industries, and native Alaskan landowners which would submit recommendations concerni ng the management of the Tongass National Forest to the Regional Forester.The amendment provides for the renogotiation of two long-term timber contracts, but prohibits changes in the timber sale volumes provided in the contracts. The substitute provides for a three-year moratorium on timber harvesting in five areas of the Tongass National Forest consisting of a total area of 160,000 acres.

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 635 (104th)open

HAMDT 635

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 1374 (112th)passed

An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 112-590 to allow the lead agency, as established under this bill, to exempt existing Mineral Prescriptions for strategic and critical materials within federally administered national forests from the procedures detailed at and all rules promulgated under part 294 of title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, the amendment would extend this exemption to areas integral to access of the Mineral Prescriptions, and the construction, operation, maintenance, and restoration of any existing Mineral Prescriptions.

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