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107 STAT. 224 PUBLIC LAW 103-45—JULY 1, 1993 (ii) by striking "States pursuant to this title" and inserting "the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to this title and the effectiveness of State programs authorized under subsection (d)"; and (D) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph: " (3) PROHIBITION ON SUBSTITUTION. — "(A) PROHIBITION.— Subject to subparagraph (B), each order of the Secretary of Commerce under paragraph (1) or (2) shall also prohibit, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person from purchasing, directly or indirectly, unprocessed timber originating from public lands in a State if— "(i) such improcessed timber would be used in substitution for exported improcessed timber originating from private lands in that State; or "(ii) such person has, during the preceding 24- month period, exported unprocessed timber originating from private landfs in that State. "(B) EXEMPTION. —The prohibitions referred to in subparagraph (A) shall not apply in a State on or after the date on which— "(i) the Governor of that State provides the Secretary of Commerce with notification of a prior program under subparagraph (C) of subsection (d)(2), "(ii) the Secretary of Commerce approves a program of that State under subparagraph (A) of subsection (d)(2), or "(iii) regulations of the Secretary of Commerce issued under subsection (c) to carry out this section take effect, whichever occurs first."; (3) by redesignating subsections (e) through (j) as subsections (g) through (1), respectively; and (4) by striking subsections (c) and (d) and inserting the following: " (c) FEDERAL PROGRAM.— " (1) ADMINISTRATION BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE.— "(A) IN GENERAL.— Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary of Commerce shall, as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Amendments Act of 1993— "(i) determine the species, grades, and geographic origin of unprocessed timber to be prohibited from export in each State that is subject to an order issued under subsection (a); "(ii) administer the prohibitions consistent with this title; "(iii) ensure that the species, grades, and geographic origin of unprocessed timber prohibited from export within each State is representative of the species, grades, and geographic origin of timber comprising the total timber sales program of the State; and Regulations. «(iv) issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out this section.