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§ 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subsection of this chapter, for which the land was withdrawn or 
selected, no land in such a contingency area that has been withdrawn and 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).



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