§ 1614. — Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from contingency area.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1614]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 33--ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
Sec. 1614. Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from
contingency area
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of existing National Forest
timber sale contracts that are directly affected by conveyances
authorized by this chapter, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized
to modify any such contract, with the consent of the purchaser, by
substituting, to the extent practicable, timber on other national forest
lands approximately equal in volume, species, grade, and accessibility
for timber standing on any land affected by such conveyances, and, on
request of the appropriate Village Corporation the Secretary of
Agriculture is directed to make such substitution to the extent it is
permitted by the timber sale contract without the consent of the
purchaser.
(b) No land conveyed to a Native Corporation pursuant to this
chapter or by operation of the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act which is within a contingency area designated in a
timber sale contract let by the United States shall thereafter be
subject to such contract or to entry or timbering by the contractor.
Until a Native Corporation has received conveyances to all of the land
to which it is entitled to receive under the appropriate section or
subsection of this chapter, for which the land was withdrawn or
selected, no land in such a contingency area that has been withdrawn and
selected, or selected, by such Corporation under this chapter shall be
entered by the timber contractor and no timber shall be cut thereon,
except by agreement with such Corporation. For purposes of this
subsection, the term ``contingency area'' means any area specified in a
timber sale contract as an area from which the timber contractor may
harvest timber if the volume of timber specified in the contract cannot
be obtained from one or more areas definitely designated for timbering
in the contract.
(Pub. L. 92-203, Sec. 15, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 705; Pub. L. 96-487,
title IX, Sec. 908, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2447.)
References in Text
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, referred to
subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 96-487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, as amended.
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
note set out under section 3101 of Title 16, Conservation, and Tables.
Amendments
1980--Pub. L. 96-487 designated existing provision as subsec. (a)
and added subsec. (b).