[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 647 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 647

  To amend section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Planning Act of 1974 to require phasing-in of certain amendments of or 
    revisions to land and resource management plans, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 30 (legislative day, March 27), 1995

     Mr. Lott (for himself, Mr. Burns, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Craig, Mr. 
Faircloth, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Mack, Mr. Murkowski, and 
  Mr. Shelby) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Planning Act of 1974 to require phasing-in of certain amendments of or 
    revisions to land and resource management plans, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. PHASING-IN OF AMENDMENTS OF AND REVISIONS TO LAND AND 
              RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANS.

    (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable 
Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(n) Phasing-in of Changes to Land and Resource Management 
Plans.--
            ``(1) In general.--When the Secretary amends or revises a 
        land or resource management plan with the purpose of increasing 
        the population of a species in a unit of the National Forest 
        System or in any area within a unit, the Secretary shall, to 
        the greatest extent practicable and except when there is an 
        imminent risk to public health, phase in the amendment or 
        revision over an appropriate period of time determined on the 
        basis of the considerations described in paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Considerations.--The considerations referred to in 
        paragraph (1) are--
                    ``(A) the social and economic consequences to local 
                communities of any new policy contained in an amendment 
                or revision;
                    ``(B) the length of time needed to achieve the 
                population increase that is the objective of the 
                amendment or revision;
                    ``(C) the cost of implementation of the amendment 
                or revision; and
                    ``(D) the financial resources available for 
                implementation of the amendment or revision.''.
    (b) Application of Amendment.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
shall apply to any amendment of or revision to a land or resource 
management plan described in the amendment that is proposed on or after 
the date of enactment of this Act or that has been proposed but not 
finally adopted prior to the date of enactment.
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