PUBLIC LAW 103-138—NOV. 11, 1993 107 STAT. 1417 the Northern spotted owl, such salvage sales may be offered as long as the offering of such sale will not render the area unsuitable as habitat for the Northern spotted owl: Provided further. That timber salvage activity in spotted owl habitat is to be done in full compliance with all existing environmental and forest management laws. SEC. 312. None of the funds in this Act may be used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands until an environmental assessment has been completed and the giant sequoia management implementation plan is approved. In any event, timber harvest within the identified groves will be done only to enhance and perpetuate giant sequoia. There will be no harvesting of giant sequoia specimen trees. Removal of hazard, insect, disease and fire killed giant sequoia other than specimen trees is permitted. SEC. 313. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to implement jmy increase in government housing rental rates in excess of 10 per centum more than the rental rates which were in effect on September 1, 1993, for such housing. SEC. 314. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to implement the Bureau of Land Management/United States Forest Service comprehensive strategy for Pacific salmon and steelhead habitat (PACFISH) or to impose interim guidelines for such strategy in the Tongass National Forest: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to enlarge or diminish minimum timber no harvest buffer zones required by the Tongass Timber Reform Act or to enlarge or diminish site-specific management prescriptions which increase no harvest fish stream buffer zones applied under the Tongass Land Management Plan and existing standards and guidelines of the Tongass National Forest. This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994". Approved November 11, 1993. Conservation. Forests and forest products. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2520: HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 103-158 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 103-299 (Comm. of SENATE REPORTS: No. 103-114 (Comm. on Appropriations). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 139 (1993): July 14, 15, considered and passed House. Sept. 14, 15, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 20, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain Senate amendments, in others with amendments; and disagreed to another. Oct. 21, 26, 28, Senate considered conference report. Nov. 9, Senate agreed to conference report; concurred in House amendments; and receded from its amendments Nos. 123 and 124. House receded from its amendment to Senate amendment No. 123. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 29 (1993): Nov. 11, Presidential statement.
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