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No. 98-720C (Judge George W. Miller) ______________________________________________________________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS PRECISION PINE & TIMBER, INC. Plaintiff, v. THE UNITED STATES Defendant. ______________________________________________________________________________ APPENDIX TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT REGARDING DAMAGES ______________________________________________________________________________ PETER D. KEISLER Assistant Attorney General DAVID M. COHEN Director KATHRYN A. BLEECKER Assistant Director OF COUNSEL: Lori Polin Jones Patricia L. Disert Office of General Counsel U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20250 DAVID A. HARRINGTON Trial Attorney Commercial Litigation Branch Civil Division Department of Justice Attn: Classification Unit 8th Floor 1100 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 (202) 307-0277 Attorneys for Defendant Dated: April 16, 2004

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Declaration of David P. Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Excerpts from Plaintiff's Responses to Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories Regarding Damages (served Aug. 25, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Excerpts from Plaintiff's Supplemental Answers to Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories (served Oct. 14, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Plaintiff's Second Supplemental Answer to Defendant's Ninth Interrogatory (served Oct. 27, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Plaintiff's Second Supplemental Answer to Defendant's Forty First Interrogatory (served Oct. 27, 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Excerpts from Plaintiff's Supplemental Responses to Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories (served Dec. 18, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Excerpts from Plaintiff's Responses to Defendant's First Set of Requests for Admission on Damages (served Aug. 25, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Excerpts from Precision Pine's February 26, 2003 Calculation Binder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Letter from Richard W. Goeken to David A. Harrington (Nov. 18, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Expert Report of Robert A. Ness (Nov. 14, 2003) (with selected exhibits attached) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Excerpts from the Deposition of John B. Smith (Feb. 2, 2004) (with selected deposition exhibits attached) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Excerpts from the Deposition of Lorin D. Porter (Feb. 3, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Excerpts from the Deposition of Lorin D. Porter (Feb. 4, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Excerpts from the Deposition of Lorin D. Porter (Feb. 11, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Excerpts from the Deposition of Lewis N. Tenney, Jr. (Feb. 5, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Excerpts from the Deposition of Rhonda M Ryan (Feb. 6, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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Excerpts from the Deposition of Mel Bowers (Feb. 10, 2004) (with deposition exhibit 19 attached) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Excerpts from the Deposition of Stephen Reidhead (Feb. 11, 2004) (with deposition exhibit 10 attached) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Excerpts from the Deposition of Robert A. Ness (Feb. 17, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Excerpts from the Transcript of Proceedings on May 20, 2003 in Precision Pine & Timber, Inc. v. United States, No. 98-720C . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Excerpts from the Transcript of Proceedings on October 1, 2003 in Precision Pine & Timber, Inc. v. United States, No. 98-720C . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Excerpts from the Transcript of Proceedings on November 11, 2003 in Precision Pine & Timber, Inc. v. United States, No. 98-720C . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 O.D. Ridge Timber Sale Contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Kettle Multi-Product Sale Contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Letter from Reidhead Lumber Company to USDA Forest Service (Dec. 18, 1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 Agreement to Modify the Hay Timber Sale (Jan. 17, 1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Letter from John B. Smith to Robert Leaverton (Dec. 9, 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 Memorandum from James L. Cooley to Robert Leaverton (Dec. 13, 1996) . . . . . . . . . 422 Letter from Robert J. Leaverton to Lewis N. Tenney, Jr. (Jan. 29, 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Stipulation in Silver v. Babbit, Case Nos. CIV-94-0337-PHX-CAM & CIV-94-1610-PHX-CAM (Oct. 18, 1995) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 Third Party Agreement regarding the St. Joe Timber Sale (April 14, 1992) . . . . . . . . . 434 Letter from Ken Broyles to Precision Pine & Timber, Inc. (Aug. 15, 1997) . . . . . . . . . 437 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the St. Joe Timber Sale (May 16, 1996) . . . 439 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Mud Multi-Product Sale (Aug. 5, 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

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Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Brookbank Multi-Product Sale (Dec. 18, 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Manaco Multi-Product Sale (Feb. 3, 1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Hutch-Boondock Multi-Product Sale (Dec. 5, 1995) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the U-Bar Multi-Product Sale (May 13, 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Hay Timber Sale (Jan. 7, 1997) . . . . . . . 446 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Jersey Horse Timber Sale (Oct. 24, 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 Timber Sale Inspection Report regarding the Brann Multi-Product Sale (May 8, 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 Precision Pine & Timber, Inc. Inventory Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 Excerpts from Precision Pine's First Supplemental Answer to Interrogatory 36 (served Oct. 14, 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 Letter from Lewis N. Tenney, Jr. to Stephen L. Gunzel (Aug. 14, 1998) . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Draft Letter to Milo Larson from Lorin D. Porter (Mar. 22, 1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 Letter from John B. Smith to Patty Bennett (May25, 1995) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 Letter from John B. Smith to Various Interested Parties (Jan. 22, 1997) . . . . . . . . . . . 469

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