103 STAT. 748 PUBLIC LAW 101-121 —OCT. 23, 1989 The advisory boards shall present their advice within fifteen or forty-five days after receipt of the necessary review documents. The fifteen-day period applies to single sales and the forty-five-day period applies to multiple sales. The members of the advisory boards authorized by this section shall serve without compensation or reimbursement of expenses. The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management are authorized to use available funds for the services of professional, independent facilitators to assist in the work of the advisory boards. (2) The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management shall consider the recommendations of the advisory boards once such boards are established pursuant to this section, including any sug- gested modifications of individual sales. The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management shall also consider recommendations made by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on those timber sales conferred upon under section 7(a)(4) or, if the spotted owl is listed as a threatened or endangered species, consult under section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2) and (a)(4)) prior to the offer of any subsequent timber sale in fiscal year 1990. These recommendations shall be considered regardless of whether the agreement provided in subsection (fKD of this section has been reached, entered into, and accepted by the relevant court. Adoption or rejection of such recommended modifica- ^ tions shall not require preparation of additional environmental documents, notwithstanding any other provision of law. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be not more than one level of administrative appeal of any decision by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management to undertake any activity directed by this section for timber sales to be prepared, advertised, offered, and awarded during fiscal year 1990 from the thirteen national forests in Oregon and Washington and Bureau of Land Management lands in western Oregon known to contain northern spotted owls. If an administrative stay is granted in any such appeal the Regional Forester or the Interior Board of Land Appeals shall issue a final decision on the merits within forty-five days of the date of issuance of such stay. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any party seeking to challenge a decision made after the date of enactment of this Act to prepare, advertise, offer, or award a timber sale in fiscal year 1990 from the thirteen national forests and Bureau of Land Management lands in western Oregon known to contain northern spotted owls need not exhaust their administrative remedies prior to filing suit. Nothing in this subsec- tion shall alter the administrative appeal requirements of the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. (e) Nothing in this section shall affect interagency cooperation among the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service under sections 7(a)(2) and 7(a)(4) of the Endangered Species Act and its regulations. (0(1) Not later than two days after enactment of this Act, the Forest Service shall submit to plaintiffs in the captioned case Seattle Audubon Society et al., v. F. Dale Robertson, Civil No. 89 -160, a list of sales which had been prepared for offer in fiscal year 1989 and which contain at least 40 acres of suitable spotted owl habitat. Not later than fourteen days after receipt of such list, plaintiffs to the suit referenced in this subsection may enter into an agreement with the Forest Service releasing for sale not less than one billion one hundred million board feet of net merchantable timber. Such sales
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