Pub. L. 100-446, tit. III, sec. 321

Sec. 321. To ensure adequate availability of timber from the Mapleton Ranger District of the Siuslaw National Forest until the final forest land and resource management plan pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1604) is in effect, and notwithstanding the injunction issued pursuant to the judgment in National Wildlife Federation, et al. v. United States Forest Service, et al. (592 F. Supp. 931 (D. Ore. 1984) as modified by 801 F. 2d 360 (9th Cir. 1986)), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to offer up to 90 million board feet of net merchantable timber in fiscal year 1989 in the Mapleton Ranger District of the Siuslaw National Forest pursuant to the requirements of this section and until completion of the final forest plan. For purposes only of selling timber pursuant to this section (and activities related thereto), the Secretary shall utilize the Siuslaw National Forest draft land and resource management plan and accompanying draft environmental impact statement dated October 1, 1986 as if they were the final forest plan and environmental impact statement: Provided, That such statement, timber sales, roads and other associated activities, and their accompanying environmental assessments, prepared and offered pursuant to and consistent with such draft plan, for purposes only of this section, shall be treated as satisfying all requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) and shall not be subject to administrative or judicial review for compliance with such Acts: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall affect any existing right of administrative or judicial review of such timber sales for compliance with other applicable laws: Provided further, That this provision does not in any manner represent a judgment upon the legal adequacy of the Siuslaw National Forest final plan and environmental impact statement.