[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC620i]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
Sec. 620i. 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 hardwood 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, Natural Resources, 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.
(Pub. L. 101-382, title IV, Sec. 498, Aug. 20, 1990, 104 Stat. 725; Pub.
L. 103-437, Sec. 6(d)(35), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4585.)
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources''
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs''.
Change of Name
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