Unprocessed Timber Law and Legal Definition
Pursuant to 16 USCS § 620e (9), [Title 16. Conservation; Chapter 4. Protection of Timber, and Depredations] (A) the term unprocessed timber means “trees or portions of trees or other roundwood not processed to standards and specifications suitable for end product use.
(B) The term "unprocessed timber" does not include timber processed into any one of the following:
(i) Lumber or construction timbers, except Western Red Cedar, meeting current American Lumber Standards Grades or Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau Export R or N list grades, sawn on 4 sides, not intended for remanufacture.
(ii) Lumber, construction timbers, or cants for remanufacture, except Western Red Cedar, meeting current American Lumber Standards Grades or Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau Export R or N list clear grades, sawn on 4 sides, not to exceed 12 inches in thickness.
(iii) Lumber, construction timbers, or cants for remanufacture, except Western Red Cedar, that do not meet the grades referred to in clause (ii) and are sawn on 4 sides, with wane less than 1/4 of any face, not exceeding 8 3/4 inches in thickness.
(iv) Chips, pulp, or pulp products.
(v) Veneer or plywood.
(vi) Poles, posts, or piling cut or treated with preservatives for use as such.
(vii) Shakes or shingles.
(viii) Aspen or other pulpwood bolts, not exceeding 100 inches in length, exported for processing into pulp.
(ix) Pulp logs, cull logs, and incidental volumes of grade 3 and 4 sawlogs processed at domestic pulp mills, domestic chip plants, or other domestic operations for the primary purpose of conversion of the logs into chips, or to the extent that a small quantity of such logs are processed, into other products at domestic processing facilities.”