16 U.S.C. § 1602 : US Code - Section 1602: Renewable Resource Program; preparation by Secretary of Agriculture and transmittal to President; purpose and development of program; time of preparation, updating and contents

Search 16 U.S.C. § 1602 : US Code - Section 1602: Renewable Resource Program; preparation by Secretary of Agriculture and transmittal to President; purpose and development of program; time of preparation, updating and contents

In order to provide for periodic review of programs for
management and administration of the National Forest System, for
research, for cooperative State and private Forest Service
programs, and for conduct of other Forest Service activities in
relation to the findings of the Assessment, the Secretary of
Agriculture, utilizing information available to the Forest Service
and other agencies within the Department of Agriculture, including
data prepared pursuant to section 1010a of title 7, shall prepare
and transmit to the President a recommended Renewable Resource
Program (hereinafter called the "Program"). The Program transmitted
to the President may include alternatives, and shall provide in
appropriate detail for protection, management, and development of
the National Forest System, including forest development roads and
trails; for cooperative Forest Service programs; and for research.
The Program shall be developed in accordance with principles set
forth in the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of June 12, 1960 (74
Stat. 215; 16 U.S.C. 528-531), and the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (83 Stat. 852) [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.]. The
Program shall be prepared not later than December 31, 1975, to
cover the four-year period beginning October 1, 1976, and at least
each of the four fiscal decades next following such period, and
shall be updated no later than during the first half of the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1980, and the first half of each fifth
fiscal year thereafter to cover at least each of the four fiscal
decades beginning next after such updating. The Program shall
include, but not be limited to -
(1) an inventory of specific needs and opportunities for both
public and private program investments. The inventory shall
differentiate between activities which are of a capital nature
and those which are of an operational nature;
(2) specific identification of Program outputs, results
anticipated, and benefits associated with investments in such a
manner that the anticipated costs can be directly compared with
the total related benefits and direct and indirect returns to the
Federal Government;
(3) a discussion of priorities for accomplishment of
inventoried Program opportunities, with specified costs, outputs,
results, and benefits;
(4) a detailed study of personnel requirements as needed to
implement and monitor existing and ongoing programs; and
(5) Program recommendations which -
(A) evaluate objectives for the major Forest Service programs
in order that multiple-use and sustained-yield relationships
among and within the renewable resources can be determined;
(B) explain the opportunities for owners of forests and
rangeland to participate in programs to improve and enhance the
condition of the land and the renewable resource products
therefrom;
(C) recognize the fundamental need to protect and, where
appropriate, improve the quality of soil, water, and air
resources;
(D) state national goals that recognize the
interrelationships between and interdependence within the
renewable resources;
(E) evaluate the impact of the export and import of raw logs
upon domestic timber supplies and prices; and
(F) account for the effects of global climate change on
forest and rangeland conditions, including potential effects on
the geographic ranges of species, and on forest and rangeland
products.