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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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land was withdrawn or selected, no land in such a contingency area
that has been withdrawn and selected, or selected, by such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.
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