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conspicuously posted with administrative site notices (Form 263). 

 Notices may, ii necessary, be posted before survey is made or si 

 is obtained. A report in duplicate on Form 271 will then be sub- 

 mitted to the supervisor by the Forest officer who located and survr\ cd 

 the site. If there are improvements upon the site, a description <>i 

 their extent and condition, their estimated value to the Service, and 

 the name and address of the claimant, if any, will be given, together 

 with a recommendation for or against their purchase. The report will 

 also give the date the site was posted. A map on tracing linen (Form 

 220) and field notes of a metes and bounds survey, if one was made, 

 must accompany the report. Administrative sites will be designated 

 by appropriate names. Upon receiving the report the supervisor, after 

 checking it to determine the accuracy of the description, survey, and 

 status, will prepare a folder and index card and will record the selec- 

 tion in the tract book township plat (Form 123). The following 

 method will be used: 



Selections or withdrawals pro- Outlined in red crayon and given a 

 posed. key number in red ink. (I'n- 



surveyed areas are indicated by 



a circle.) 



Withdrawals effected Hatched in red crayon. 



Release or cancellation proposed. .Outline in black pencil. 



Release or cancellation effected All crayon and pencil markings 



erased. 



Entries of administrative sites on township plats will be indexed on 

 the margin of the plat upon which the site is entered. The index will 

 be entered upon the left-hand margin and will give in red ink the key 

 number of the site and in black ink the name of the site and, when 

 necessary, the date of withdrawal and data regarding release. The 

 name and description of the site will also be entered alphabetically on 

 a special index sheet in the front of the tract book. 



When the site selected is on National Forest land, the supervisor, 

 after indorsing his approval on the report, will submit it to the district 

 forester with two blue-print copies of the tracing, and when the site 

 was located by a metes and bounds survey, with one copy of the field 

 notes. If the selection is approved by the district forester, the site 

 will be recorded in the Forest tract book, an indorsement of the dis- 

 trict forester's approval will be made on the report and blue prints, 

 and the report, one blue print, and the field notes, if any, will be 

 returned to the supervisor, and one blue print will be retained in the 

 files of the district office. When the blue print only of selected sites 

 is retained, it can be filed hi a general folder for the Forest, but when 

 correspondence or other papers are retained, as in the case of with- 

 drawn sites, a special folder and index card may be provided. 



When the site selected is on vacant and unappropriated public land 

 outside a National Forest, the procedure prescribed 

 w ^ ^ e ^^ owec ^ m selecting, locating, and reporting 

 upon the site; but the report when submitted to the 

 district forester must be accompanied by a letter from 

 the supervisor stating the urgent need for withdrawing the site. 

 If the tract recommended for withdrawal is in Washington, Oregon, 

 Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming, it must appear in the 

 communication from the supervisor that there is absolutely no tract 



