Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations
§ 619. Emergency stumpage rate redeterminations in Alaska
Statutory text
Application; applicable period
Emergency stumpage rate redetermination shall be made upon the written application of the purchaser of National Forest timber in Alaska, bid after , and rates established as a result thereof shall be effective for timber scaled during a period between , and five years from .
Competitive effect of modification of contracts
In making the emergency rate redeterminations the Secretary may modify existing contract terms, including the amount of the bid premium, in order to provide rates which will permit the holders of contracts bid after , to be competitive with other purchasers of National Forest timber.
Excepted contracts
The provisions of this section shall not apply to contracts held by the holders of 50-year timber sale contracts in Alaska.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Federal Timber Contract Payment Modification Act
Pub. L. 98–478 § 4 · 98 Stat. 2213
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 619
(Pub. L. 98–478, § 4, Oct. 16, 1984, 98 Stat. 2217.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 98–478, § 4, Oct. 16, 1984, 98 Stat. 2217.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. (a) Emergency stumpage rate redetermination shall be Alaska. 16 USC 619. made upon the written application of the purchaser of National Forest timber in Alaska, bid after January 1, 1974, and rates established as a result thereof shall be effective for timber scaled during a period between January 1, 1981, and five years from the effective date of this legislation. (b) In making the emergency rate redeterminations the Secretary may modify existing contract terms, including the amount of the bid premium, in order to provide rates which will permit the holders of contracts bid after January 1, 1974, to be competitive with other purchasers of National Forest timber. (c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to contracts held by the holders of 50-year timber sale contracts in Alaska.
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