16 U.S.C. § 620i — Eastern hardwoods study

(a) Study The Secretary of Commerce, in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, must conduct a study of the export from the United States, during the 2-year period beginning on January 1, 1991 , of unprocessed hardwood timber harvested from Federal lands or public lands east of the 100th meridian. In order to carry out the provisions of this section— (1) the Secretary of Commerce must require each person exporting that timber from the United States to declare, in addition to the information normally required in the Shipper’s Export Declarations, the State in which the timber was grown and harvested; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior must ensure that all hardwood saw timber harvested from Federal lands east of the 100th meridian is marked in that a manner as to make it readily identifiable at all times before its manufacture, and must take that steps as each Secretary considers appropriate to ensure that that markings are not altered or destroyed before manufacturing. (b) Report to Congress Not later than April 1, 1993 , the Secretary of Commerce must submit to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report describing the volume and value of unprocessed timber grown and harvested from Federal lands or public lands east of the 100th meridian that is exported from the United States during the 2-year period beginning on January 1, 1991 , the country to which that timber is exported, and the State in which that timber was grown and harvested.