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(FORMERLY H.R. 2789 IN THE 105th CONGRESS) 106TH CONGRESS LEAD SPONSORS: Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
Co-sponsors include:
Jim McDermott (D-WA), Julian Dixon (D-CA), Bob Filner, (D-CA), Luis Gutierrez, (D-IL), John Lewis (D-GA), Pete Stark (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Michael Forbes (R-NY), Harold Ford (D-TN), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Bob Franks (R-NJ), Bamey Frank (D-MA), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Lynn Rivers (D-MI), David Bonior (D-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Matthew Martinez (D-CA), Tom Lantos (D-CA), Bill Luther (D-MN), Bm Pascrell (D-NJ), William Clay (D-MO), Bobby Rush (D-IL), James McGovem (D-MA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Donald Payne (D-NJ), Jerfy Kleczka (D-WI), Robert Wexler (D-FL), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Carrie Meek (D-FL), Major R. Owens (D-NY), Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Rosa DeLauro (DC7), John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), John Larson (D-C7), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA), George Brown (D-CA), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Mel Watt (D-NC), Martin Meehan (D-MA), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-CA), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (NFPRA):
Preserves America's national forest heritage, protecting and restoring the ecological values of our federal public forests by ending the federal government's timber sale program on National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, BLM Lands, and National Parks by shifting logging subsidies towards restoration.
Immediately protects all roadless areas by canceling existing timber sales in those areas.
Immediately prohibits all new timber sales, cancels Salvage Rider sales, and phases out all existing timber sales within 2 years.
Saves taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The national forest timber sales program operated at a net loss to taxpayers of $1.2 billion in fiscal year 1997.
Redirects logging subsidies to provide funds for worker retraining; and gives preference to displaced timber workers for jobs in the woods doing ecological restoration.
Begins a scientifically-based ecological restoration program for federal public forests.
Redirects logging subsidies, providing funding to replace 25% revenue sharing payments to States for Counties and local governmentsRedirects logging subsidies to provide funding for environmentally sensitive non-wood alternative paper and construction materials
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