16 U.S.C. § 1600 : US Code - Section 1600: Congressional findings

Search 16 U.S.C. § 1600 : US Code - Section 1600: Congressional findings

The Congress finds that -
(1) the management of the Nation's renewable resources is
highly complex and the uses, demand for, and supply of the
various resources are subject to change over time;
(2) the public interest is served by the Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with other agencies,
assessing the Nation's renewable resources, and developing and
preparing a national renewable resource program, which is
periodically reviewed and updated;
(3) to serve the national interest, the renewable resource
program must be based on a comprehensive assessment of present
and anticipated uses, demand for, and supply of renewable
resources from the Nation's public and private forests and
rangelands, through analysis of environmental and economic
impacts, coordination of multiple use and sustained yield
opportunities as provided in the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act
of 1960 (74 Stat. 215; 16 U.S.C. 528-531), and public
participation in the development of the program;
(4) the new knowledge derived from coordinated public and
private research programs will promote a sound technical and
ecological base for effective management, use, and protection of
the Nation's renewable resources;
(5) inasmuch as the majority of the Nation's forests and
rangeland is under private, State, and local governmental
management and the Nation's major capacity to produce goods and
services is based on these nonfederally managed renewable
resources, the Federal Government should be a catalyst to
encourage and assist these owners in the efficient long-term use
and improvement of these lands and their renewable resources
consistent with the principles of sustained yield and multiple
use;
(6) the Forest Service, by virtue of its statutory authority
for management of the National Forest System, research and
cooperative programs, and its role as an agency in the Department
of Agriculture, has both a responsibility and an opportunity to
be a leader in assuring that the Nation maintains a natural
resource conservation posture that will meet the requirements of
our people in perpetuity; and
(7) recycled timber product materials are as much a part of our
renewable forest resources as are the trees from which they
originally came, and in order to extend our timber and timber
fiber resources and reduce pressures for timber production from
Federal lands, the Forest Service should expand its research in
the use of recycled and waste timber product materials, develop
techniques for the substitution of these secondary materials for
primary materials, and promote and encourage the use of recycled
timber product materials.