[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3233 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3233

To require the Secretary of Agriculture to take such actions as may be 
necessary to control the infestation of southern pine beetles currently 
            ravaging wilderness areas in the State of Texas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 6, 1993

Mr. Wilson introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to 
          the Committees on Natural Resources and Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to take such actions as may be 
necessary to control the infestation of southern pine beetles currently 
            ravaging wilderness areas in the State of Texas.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ACTIONS TO CONTROL THE SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE IN WILDERNESS 
              AREAS IN TEXAS.

    (a) Active Control Required.--Notwithstanding section 4(c) of the 
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(c)) and section 4(a) of the Texas 
Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-574; 98 Stat. 3051), the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall undertake active measures--
            (1) to control the infestation of the southern pine beetle 
        in the five wilderness areas in the State of Texas designated 
        in section 2 of the Texas Wilderness Act of 1984; and
            (2) to prevent the spread of the southern pine beetle from 
        such wilderness areas to adjacent private forest lands.
    (b) Types of Control Measures.--Measures undertaken to control the 
infestation of southern pine beetles in wilderness areas in the State 
of Texas may include the use of salvage harvesting of timber stands 
that--
            (1) are already substantially damaged by the southern pine 
        beetle; or
            (2) will prevent the spread of the southern pine beetle to 
        healthy stands of timber.

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