§ 620i. Eastern hardwoods study

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.

1. 1990

   Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990

   Pub. L. 101–382 title IV § 498 · 104 Stat. 629

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 620i

   Pub. L. 101–382, title IV, § 498, Aug. 20, 1990, 104 Stat. 725

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 101–382, title IV, § 498, Aug. 20, 1990, 104 Stat. 725

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 498. EASTERN HARDWOODS STUDY. (a) Study.— The Secretary of Commerce, in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, shall conduct a study of the export from the United States, during the 2-year period beginning on January 1, 1991, of unprocessed hard-wood timber harvested from Federal lands or public lands east of the 100th meridian. In order to carry out the provisions of this section— (1) the Secretary of Commerce shall require each person exporting such timber from the United States to declare, in addition to the information normally required in the Shipper’s Export Declarations, the State in which the timber was grown and harvested; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that all hardwood saw timber harvested from Federal lands east of the 100th meridian is marked in such a manner as to make it readily identifiable at all times before its manufacture, and shall take such steps as each Secretary considers appropriate to ensure that such markings are not altered or destroyed before manufacturing. (b) Report to Congress.— Not later than April 1, 1993, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the Committees on Agriculture, Interior and Insular Affairs, and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report describing the volume and value of unprocessed timber grown and harvested from Federal lands or public lands east of the 100th meridian that is exported from the United States during the 2-year period beginning on January 1, 1991, the country to which such timber is exported, and the State in which such timber was grown and harvested.

2. 1994

   Pub. L. 103–437 § 6(d)(35) · 108 Stat. 4581

   Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 620i(b)

   Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (35) section 498(b) of the Customs and Trade Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620i(b)).

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