ALTERATIONS IN
FOREST POLICY
ARE ANNOUNCED
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
LIBERALIZES ALASKA TIM.
BER CONTRACT POLICY
Two alterations in Forest Service
•regulations governing contracts for
sales of large quantities of timber
from national forests in Alaska have
just been approved by tihe Secretary
of Agriculture, aocording to tele
graphic advices received on Christ
mas Day by Dist. Forester C. H.
Florv, Juneau. Both are designed to
liberalize contracts and make in
vestments in Alaska timber indus
tries more attractive to large scale
investors.
In effect the first change in
creases the maximum sale for pulp
and paper manufacturing purposes
from two billion board feet to three
billion, and the second provides no
reappraisal of stumpage prices shall
be made for a period of 10 years
after beginning of actual operations
instead of the five year period here- i
tofore required under the contract
offered.
The new regulations state “the
existing policy of operating a 30
year contract subject to a maximum
of two billion board feet is modi
fied by raising this maximum to
three billion board feet in older to
place under contract a sufficient
quantity of timber sufficient for a
30-year operating life for pulp mills
as large as 300 tons daily capacity.”
The second regulation is: “The
(period of operation before the first
reappraisal, or in other words, the
period of operation, exclusive of any
period allowed for construction or
improvements, will be ten years in
stead of five years as required by
Regulation S. 6.”
“We believe this action oif the
Secretary is the most important
step toward liberalizing our large
sale contracts yet taken by the Gov
ernment and its importance to de
velopment of Alaskan forests is sec
ond only to the assignment of B. F.
Heintzelman to a comprehensive
study of conditions in the American
and Canadian pulp and paper manu
facturing industry,” said Mr. Flory
today. “It will eliminate the causes
of two of the major criticisms that
paper manufacturing interests have
found in our old contract policy.
The most serious criticism was di
rected against the old five year re
appraisal Clause. It was claimed
that such a short period at the very
beginning of the operation of any
plant was such a handicap as to
make it difficult to secure the
several million dollars required to
establish such a plant. Both of the
new regulations are designed to re
move this objection, first, by pro
viding sufficient timber under con
tract to operate the largest mill at
capacity for the full period of the
30-year contract and, second, by
making it possible for any mill to
operate at least ten years at the i
lowest stumpage rates. In fact, the j
new regulations mean that it will i
be from 12 to 14 years from the
date of the sale to the time of
the first reappraisal as not less
than two years are allowed for con
struction of plant, power develop
ment, etc.,” Mr. Fiery said.
The changes were made on the
recommendations of' Mr. Flory who
took up the matter with U. S. For
ester Greeley last August in an
official communication. He pres
ented the subject in .person to the
Forester at Denver last month at
the Annual Conference of District
Foresters, securing this approval.
The mat ter * Was placed before the
Secretary of Agriculture several
days ago, following Col. Greeley’s
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