54 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



FINAL APPLICATIONS AND PERMITS. 



If, in accordance with the terms of a preliminary permit, a final 

 application is filed in the form prescribed by Reg. L-ll, such final 

 application shall, with reference to priority, relate back and be 

 effective as of the date of the preliminary application. The date 

 upon which priority of application is either maintained in accordance 

 with a preliminary permit or established by final application in the 

 absence of a preliminary permit shall be the date of the filing in the 

 office of the district forester of the last map or paper necessary to 

 constitute a complete application as prescribed in the regulation. 

 The date and hour of the receipt of an application will be inserted 

 in the space provided on Form 58a, and will be certified by the signa- 

 ture of the district forester. Applications will be examined by the 

 district engineer in the order of their receipt as certified by the dis- 

 trict forester. The application and its accompanying papers, espe- 

 cially the plans of project works and the estimates and data, will be 

 carefully examined with a view to determine whether they are in 

 complete and proper form and contain all the information required 

 by the regulation. If complete, the district engineer will certify to 

 the fact in the space provided on the form. 



If any of the papers required by the regulation are incomplete or 

 insufficient or if there have been any omissions the district engineer 

 will prepare for the signature of the district forester a letter to the 

 applicant explaining the incompleteness or insufficiency or omissions, 

 and returning for completion or correction any papers which are not 

 in proper form. A carbon copy of this letter certified by the signa- 

 ture of the district engineer will be attached to and filed with the 

 papers in the case. Upon the receipt of the amended or additional 

 papers the date and hour of such receipt will be certified by the dis- 

 trict forester in the same manner as when they were originally re- 

 ceived. They will be reexamined by the district engineer and if 

 found complete, as required by the regulation, he will certify the 

 fact in the space provided on the form. 



Upon the receipt of a final application for the use of an area which 

 is in whole or in part included in an existing final permit previously 

 issued, the district forester will return the application to the appli- 

 cant and will inform him fully of the existing permit and of the 

 extent to which his application is in conflict therewith. The appli- 

 cant may then amend his application to avoid such conflict or may 

 renew his application should the priority of application be lost by 

 the prior applicant. If the final application is an original filing or 

 is filed in accordance with the terms of a subordinate preliminary 

 permit and such filing is made before the filing of final application 

 by a prior preliminary permittee the district forester will retain the 

 application, but will suspend action thereon until after the filing of 

 final application by the prior preliminary permittee or until after 

 the termination of the preliminary permit. When the prior per- 

 mittee has filed final application, if it is found that the application 

 first in time is in conflict with the application first in right the dis- 

 trict forester will return the former to the applicant and will inform 

 him fully of the extent to which his application is in conflict with 

 that of the prior permittee. The first-named applicant may then 

 amend his application to avoid such conflict or may renew his appli- 





