[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 432 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 432

    To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to conduct and support research into alternative treatments 
  for timber produced from public lands and lands withdrawn from the 
 public domain for the National Forest System, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 2003

   Mr. Craig introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to conduct and support research into alternative treatments 
  for timber produced from public lands and lands withdrawn from the 
 public domain for the National Forest System, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Public Lands Production Research Act 
of 2003''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act:
            (1) The term ``public lands'' has the meaning given such 
        term in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and 
        Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1702(e)).
            (2) The term ``National Forest System'' has the meaning 
        given such term in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland 
        Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1609(a)).
            (3) The term ``Secretaries'' means the Secretary of 
        Agriculture acting through the Chief of the Forest Service and 
        the Secretary of the Interior acting through the Director of 
        the Bureau of Land Management.

SEC. 3. RESEARCH PROGRAM.

    The Secretaries shall consult and develop a program of research 
into alternative treatments for timber and timber products produced 
from public lands and other federal lands withdrawn from the public 
domain for the National Forest System, including the use of silver-
based biocides using silver produced from patented and unpatented 
federal lands. The program may be implemented through contracts with 
public or private laboratories or research institutes with experience 
in the treatment of such products.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 
to carry out this Act.
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