REGIONAL Lawmakers worried that Siberian logs are bugged WASHINGTON (AP) Fear ful of Soviet pest infestations and plant diseases, three North west lawmakers tailed on Agri culture Secretary Clayton Vent ter Wednesday to temporarily ban imports of raw loss from Siberia. "I’m not willing to play Rus sian roulette with our forests so that a few big timber compa nies can make a buck." Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore . said. "There is no acceptable level of risk when the health, per haps tin; even survival, of the greatest coniferous forests of the Northwest is at stake." he said. Oregon Democrats l.es Au Goin and Ron Wyden joined DeFazio in asking Vender to adopt emergency regulations halting the Siberian imports. “The prospect of inadver tently introducing a devastat ing pest or pathogen into the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest has us deeply trou bled." the lawmakers said in a letter to the secretary Failure to take action could result in devastation as great as the infestations of Dutch elm disease or the Asian chestnut hlight. they said. The congressmen cited an in ternal memo in the Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that admits little is known about 100 insects, fungi, mollusks and nematodes that the service says could be found in Siberian timber An Agriculture Department spokesman said Wednesday the letter had not been reviewed and there was no one immedi ately available to comment Northwest timber companies have been looking for additiou Qfi <il raw materials to keep their mills running in the fate of do mestic logging cutbacks due in part to federalh mandated pro tection of the threatened north ern spotted owl Louisiana-Pacific Corp re ceived a test shipment of Silie rian logs at one of its Northern California mills last summer and further shipments are planned by at least one other company. DeFazio said In the first shipment, the logs were inspected, debarked and fumigated at an Oakland port before they went to the mill, he said. Hut the Agriculture Depart ment’s internal memo dated Sept 2f» said fumigation proba bly would not hr- effective against harmful fungi "Insects in the Silrerian logs are difficult to deter t." said the memo written by I \V l.ightfield. chief operations of ficer for the inspection ser vice’s Biological Assessment and Taxonomir Support Plant Protection anti Quarantine in Hyattsville. Md "Fumigation will be effet live only against insects, mollusks and nematodes Removal ol the bark will reduce the risk for all Hark removal first and then fu migating will further reduce the risk, especially if both were conducted in Siberia If treated in Siberia, safeguards should lie in place to prevent contami nation," the memo said. The memo said a lack of in formation makes it difficult to draw additional com lusions. 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