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President Signs S. 2296, the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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President Signs S. 2296, the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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Digitized from Box 1 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
August 17 '974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The President today signed S. 2296 -- the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. The bill authorizes and
directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make renewable resource
assessments and develop renewable resource programs for planning
and budgeting purposes within the National Forest System.
S. 2296 authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish
an elaborate long-range planning and budgeting system concerning all
National Forest System renewable resources. In addition to the new
long-range planning aspects of the bill, it has the effect of increasing
Congressional involvement in Forest Service planning. The major
features of S. 2296, which become effective for fiscal year 1977, are
summarized below:
1. Requires the preparation of a Renewable Resource Assessment which
includes: supply and demand analysis; inventory of present and potential
renewable resources a description of Forest Service programs and re-
sponsibilities; and, a discussion of factors affecting the use, ownership,
and management of forest, range and other associated lands.
2. Directs the development and submission to the President of a
Renewable Resource Program which includes alternative approaches
for protection, management, and development of the National Forest
System under the principles of multiple-use and ustained-yield.
3. Requires submission by the President to the Congress of the Assess-
ment, Program, and a detailed "Statement of Policy, " the latter "intended
to be used in framing budget requests by that Administration" for the
Forest Service, beginning in January of 1976 and thereafter following
each updating' either House of the Congress could disapprove the Statement
of Policy by resolution and the Congress could revise or modify it by law.
4. Directs explanation by the President of the specific reasons for the
lesser program, in any of his budget requests for the Forest Service
that are less than called for in the Congressionally approved Statement
of Policy.
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5. Mandates the elimination by the yea r 2000 of all work backlogs
for the renewable resources of the National Forest System so that
intensive multiple-use sustained-yield management will be possible
throughout the system -- annual budget requests must be made at a
level to remove such backlogs.
6. Places private operator costs for contract road building in
connection with timber sales and operations within the Federal budget
totals, and apparently requires that the levels of such road building
be provided for in appropriation acts.
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