72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session
 
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LC 2649
 
                         Senate Bill 595
 
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Creates Task Force on Federal Forest Programs. Specifies
membership of task force. Directs task force to develop and make
recommendations on standards for Forest Legacy Program.
  Sunsets December 31, 2004.
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to federal forest programs; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1)(a) There is created the Task Force on
Federal Forest Programs consisting of 11 members.
  (b) The President of the Senate shall appoint two members from
among members of the Senate.
  (c) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint
two members from among members of the House of Representatives.
  (d) The Governor shall appoint seven members as follows:
  (A) One member from the Department of Land Conservation and
Development;
  (B) One member to represent the forest industry;
  (C) One member who is a private forest landowner;
  (D) One member to represent county governments;
  (E) One member to represent municipal government; and
  (F) Two members to represent land conservation organizations.
  (2) The purpose of the task force is to develop and make
recommendations on standards for a state partnership with the
federal Forest Legacy Program. The Forest Legacy Program is a
voluntary federal partnership program that supports state efforts
to maintain forestland in a working landscape to protect
environmental, economic and social values provided by
forestlands.  The standards developed shall be designed to
encourage the active management of privately owned forestlands.
  (3) The task force shall consider the following in the
development of the standards:
  (a) Consistency and compatibility with local government land
use plans and state land use goals;
  (b) Impacts to local government tax bases;
  (c) The maintenance of lands with high conservation values;
  (d) Valuing continued private ownership of lands;
  (e) The problems posed for recording and tracking easements and
management plans;
 
  (f) Stressing continued commodity production, while enhancing
noncommodity values such as scenic, cultural, fish, wildlife and
recreational resources; and
  (g) Maximizing the use of conservation easements.
  (4) The task force shall develop legislation for recommendation
to the Seventy-third Legislative Assembly.
  (5) The task force is subject to the provisions of ORS 171.605
to 171.635 and has the authority contained in ORS 171.505 and
171.510.
  (6) The task force shall use the services of permanent
legislative staff to the greatest extent practicable.
  (7) A majority of the members of the task force constitutes a
quorum for the transaction of business.
  (8) Official action by the task force requires the approval of
a majority of the members of the task force.
  (9) The task force shall elect one of its members to serve as
chairperson.
  (10) The task force may presession file legislation in the
manner provided in ORS 171.130 for interim committees. All
legislation recommended by official action of the task force must
indicate that it is introduced at the request of the task force.
  (11) Members of the task force who are not members of the
Legislative Assembly are not entitled to compensation, but may be
reimbursed for actual and necessary travel and other expenses
incurred by them in the performance of their official duties, in
the manner and amounts provided for in ORS 292.495. Claims for
expenses shall be paid out of funds appropriated to the
Legislative Assembly for that purpose. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + Section 1 of this 2003 Act is repealed on
December 31, 2004. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + This 2003 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2003 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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