PUBLIC LAW 101-121 —OCT. 23, 1989 103 STAT. 749 must be available for advertisment not later than fourteen days after the agreement required by this subsection is reached. Such timber sales selected shall not be subject to further judicial review by any court of the United States. (2) If the agreement specified in subsection (f)(1) of this section is reached, then those timber sales described in the list submitted to plaintiffs pursuant to subsection (f)(1) of this section but not con- tained in the agreement authorized by subsection (f)(1) of this section shall not be offered for sale in fiscal year 1990. (3) If the agreement authorized under subsection (fKD of this section is not implemented within the timeframes prescribed in subsection (f)(1) of this section, one billion one hundred million board feet of net merchantable timber from such sales submitted to plaintiffs pursuant to subsection (f)(1) of this section shall be selected and modified as appropriate by the Forest Service in accordance with the provisions of this section. Selected sales shall be prepared, advertised, offered, awarded and operated notwithstanding any provision of law that is a basis for any stay, injunction or order issued in the proceeding identified in subsection (f)(1) of this section: Provided, That nothing in this subsection shall affect rights avail- able under the Contract Disputes Act (41 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). (4) The Forest Service shall, for each respective timber sale, lift its own stay or apply to the appropriate court for the lifting of the restraining order or injunction whose basis has been withdrawn by this section. (5) Timber sales selection pursuant to subsections (f)(1) or (f)(3) of this section shall be based on the following criteria: (1) proportional distribution between Oregon and Washington national forests known to contain northern spotted owls based on the average sale volumes for fiscal years 1986 through 1988; (2) proportional distribu- tion to the extent possible among the thirteen national forests known to contain northern spotted owls in Oregon and Washington based on the average sale volumes for fiscal years 1986 through 1988; and (3) to the extent possible, selection of sales outside the habitat of nesting pairs of spotted owls which are not in the Spotted Owl Habitat Areas described in subsection (b)(3) of this section. (g)(1) No restraining order or preliminary injunction shall be issued by any court of the United States with respect to any decision to prepare, advertise, offer, award, or operate a timber sale or timber sales in 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. The provi- sions of section 705 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to ^ any challenge to such a timber sale: Provided, That the courts shall Courts, U.S. have authority to enjoin permanently, order modification of, or void an individual sale if it has been determined by a trial on the merits that the decision to prepare, advertise, offer, award, or operate such sale was arbitrary, capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law: Provided further. That any challenge to a timber sale must be filed in Federal District Court within fifteen days of the date of initial advertisement of the challenged timber sale: Provided fur- ther, That for forty-five days after the date of filing of a challenge to a timber sale the affected agency shall take no action to award a challenged timber sale. Civil actions filed under this section shall be assigned for hearing at the earliest possible date and shall take precedence over all other matters pending on the docket of the court at that time except for criminal cases: Provided further. That the Courts, U.S.
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