WESlIERN ASS0C[ATt[0N NEWS

Western Building Material Association will hold its annual Western Round Up July 2l-25 at Fairmont Hot Springs, Anaconda, Mt. Scheduled are meetings of the insurance and pension trustees, long range planning committee, board of directors, executive board meeting, Western Association Services and Young Westerners Club board.

Members among the over 200 building material dealers attending the 1995 National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., included Robert Lassiter, Volco, Inc., Twin Falls, Id.; Merlyn Jolley, Jolley Building Supply, Shelley, Id.; Greg Aldrich and Thora Aldrich, Aldrich & Co., Billings, Mt.;Bob Jacobsen, Lloyd Lumber Co., Inc., Nampa, Id.; Robert L. Kerr, Kerr Ace Hardware & Building Center, Brookings, Or.; Frank Powers, Seattle Lumber Co., Renton, Wa., and WBMA executive director Mary Murphy.

To comply with OSHA fall protection rules, WBMA suggests for materials to be delivered to a rooftop or any place with exposure to a fall of 6 ft. or more, bids or quotations state at the top: "We comply with all Fall Protection Regulations." The contractor is then on notice that the mater- ial won't be delivered to the roof top if fall protection is not available. Businesses should train their staffs in the proper use of fall protection equipment and provide contractor customers with compliance and use information.

WBMA also notes that OSHA fined companies nearly $120 million in penalties during fiscal 1994, about $4 million more than the 1992 record. More than three-quarters of the inspections were for safety hazards, the rest for health investigations.

Lumber Merchants Association attracted approximately 45 members, guests and Southem California dealers to San Diego, Ca., March 3l-April 3 for its annual LMA Owners' Seminar. Featured

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GYPSUM BOARD were a group tour of the prototype Home Depot Expo store and Bill Lee, president, Lee Resources, addressing how to compete against Home Depot.

Joe Arndt delivered a two-hour presentation on National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association's "Retailing 2000: Managing for Excellence." Roundtable discussions covered employee benefits, OSHA regulations, health insurance, open rating of workers' compensation insurance, and family business issues.

Golf and a harbor dinner/dance cruise rounded out the program.

Lumber Association of Southern California has booked noted speaker and author James Melton for its annual Second Growth weekend July 14-15 at the La Quinta Hotel, La Quinta, Ca. As well, LASC's annual management conference will be at the La Quinta Nov. 2-4.

Gongress OKs Timber Salvage Bill

A bill to increase sales of dead and dying timber on national forests has become the first piece of legislation to pass through Congress in decades that reverses anti-forestry trends and promotes forest management.

The initial version of the TaylorDicks Emergency Timber Salvage Amendment approved by the House 27 5 to 150 required the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to sell 6.2 billion bd. ft. of salvage over two years. The Senate passed the bill 48 to 46 after removing the board footage targets and trimming the sales from two years to fiscal '95-'96 (about l6 months). The national forests currently have a backlog of 2l billion bd. ft. of salvage.

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The House and Senate are expected to hammer out a compromise version before sending it to President Clinton for a final decision by early June.

The American Forest & Paper Association would like to see the target amounts reinstated. "If (the Forest Service) doesn't have targets, more likely they'll (sell) less," said Doug Crandall. "Unfortuantely, they've been tied up for so long, they seem to have lost the ability to move expediently."

The amendment is part of the Omnibus Recissions Bill, designed to cut federal spending and provide supplemental appropriations for California disaster assistance.

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