(e) This act shall be construed as supplementing all other laws relating to the Department of Agriculture and shall not be construed as limiting or repealing any existing law or authority of the Secretary except as specifically cited in this Act. (f) For the purposes of this Act, the terms "United States" and "State" shall include each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States. RESEARCH APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZATION SEC. 7. [16 U.S.C. 1646] There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually such sums as may be needed to implement this Act. Funds appropriated under this Act shall remain available until expended. REPEAL OF MCSWENNEY-MCNARY ACT; REGULATIONS AND COORDINATION; APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 8. [16 U.S.C. 1647] (a) The Act of May 22, 1928, known as the McSweeney-McNary Act (45 Stat. 699-702, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 581, 581a, 581b-581i), is hereby repealed. (b) Contracts and cooperative and other agreements under the McSweeney-McNary Act shall remain in effect until revoked or amended by their own terms or under other provisions of law. (c) The Secretary is authorized to issue such rules and regulations as the Secretary deems necessary to implement the provisions of this Act and to coordinate this Act with title XIV of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. (d) Funds appropriated under the authority of the McSweeneyMcNary Act shall be available for expenditure for the programs authorized under this Act. SEC. 9. [16 U.S.C. 1648] RECYCLING RESEARCH. (a) FINDINGS.-Congress finds that (1) the United States is amassing vast amounts of solid wastes, which is presenting an increasing problem for municipalities in locating suitable disposal sites; (2) a large proportion of these wastes consists of paper and other wood wastes; (3) less than one-third of these paper and wood wastes are recycled; (4) additional recycling would result in reduced solid waste landfill disposal and would contribute to a reduced rate of removal of standing timber from forest lands; and (5) additional research is needed to develop technological advances to address barriers to increased recycling of paper and wood wastes and utilization of products consisting of recycled materials. (b) RECYCLING RESEARCH PROGRAM.-The Secretary is authorized to conduct, support, and cooperate in an expanded wood fiber recycling research program, including the acquisition of necessary equipment. The Secretary shall seek to ensure that the program in program goals include the application of such research to industry and consumer needs. (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-In addition to any other funds made available to implement section 3 of this Act, for the 5-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, there are authorized to be appropriated annually $10,000,000 to implement this section. SEC. 10. [16 U.S.C. 1649] FORESTRY STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.-The Secretary shall establish a program, to be known as the "Forestry Student Grant Program" (hereafter referred to in this section as the "Program"), to provide assistance to expand the professional education of forestry, natural resources, and environmental scientists. (b) STUDENT GRANTS.-Under the Program the Secretary shall provide assistance for the establishment of a competitive grant fellowship program to assist graduate, and undergraduate minority and female, students attending institutions having programs in forestry and natural resources. (c) ELIGIBILITY.-The Secretary shall ensure that students concentrating in the following studies shall be eligible for assistance under subsection (b): (1) Forestry. (2) Biology and forest organisms. (3) Ecosystem function and management. (4) Human-forest interaction. (5) International trade, competition, and cooperation. (6) Wood as a raw material. (7) Economics and policy. (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. 10. MULTIPLE-USE SUSTAINED-YIELD ACT OF 1960 1 (Public Law 86-517; Approved June 12, 1960) AN ACT To authorize and direct that the national forests be managed under principles of multiple use and to produce a sustained yield of products and services, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That [16 U.S.C. 528] it is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes. The purposes of this Act are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in the Act of June 4, 1897 (16 U.S.C. 475). Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the several States with respect to wildlife and fish on the national forests. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the use of administration of the mineral resources of national forest lands or to affect the use or administration of Federal lands not within national forests. SEC. 2. [16 U.S.C. 529] The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the several products and services obtained therefrom. In the administration of the national forests due consideration shall be given to the relative values of the various resources in particular areas. The establishment and maintenance of areas of wilderness are consistent with the purposes and provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. [16 U.S.C. 530] In the effectuation of this Act the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cooperate with interested State and local governmental agencies and others in the development and management of the national forests. SEC. 4. [16 U.S.C. 531] As used in this Act, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Multiple use" means: The management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions; that some land will be used for less than all of the resources; and harmonious and 1 This is the short title of this Act. See section 5. |