00HOUSE BILL NO. 121 (title am)                                                                                           
01 "An Act relating to salvage sales of state timber and to negotiated sales of state                                      
02 timber in areas where there exists, or will exist in two years, a high level of                                         
03 unemployment, underutilized manufacturing capacity, and an underutilized cut of                                         
04 timber, timber that will lose substantial economic value due to insects, disease,                                       
05 or fire, or timber to be cleared for nonforest uses."                                                                   
06 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
07    * Section 1.  AS 38.05 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                   
08  Sec. 38.05.117.  SALVAGE SALES.  (a)  Notwithstanding the provisions of                                               
09 AS 38.05.113, the commissioner, after making a written finding that the disposal will                                   
10 serve the best interests of the state, may offer for salvage sale timber stands that will                               
11 lose substantial economic value because of insect or disease epidemics or fire, if not                                  
12 salvaged within two years.  Timber on land to be cleared for conversion to nonforest                                    
13 uses also may be offered as a salvage sale.                                                                             
14  (b)  A salvage sale offered as a negotiated timber sale is exempt from                                                

01 AS 38.05.115.                                                                                                           
02    * Sec. 2.  AS 38.05.118(c) is amended to read:                                                                       
03  (c)  A sale of timber may not be negotiated by the commissioner under this                                            
04 section except on a finding that, within an area proximate to the business site that                                  
05 [WHICH] the manufacturer may economically serve, there exists, or will exist within                                    
06 two years,                                                                                                             
07   (1)  a high level of local unemployment;                                                                             
08   (2)  an underutilized timber manufacturing capacity; and                                                             
09   (3)  an underutilized allowable cut of state timber, timber that will lose                                          
10 substantial economic value due to insects, disease, or fire, or timber to be cleared                                    
11 for the conversion of land to nonforest uses.