232 OUR NATIONAL FORESTS 



The rental charges are nominal in amount, the 

 maximum being about %6 of a cent per kilowatt 

 hour. The amount of annual payment for trans- 

 mission lines is $5.00 for each mile or fraction 

 thereof if National Forest land is crossed by the 

 line. No rental charges are made for small power 

 projects (under 100 horsepower capacity), or for 

 transmission lines used in connection therewith, or 

 for transmission lines which are part of a power 

 project under permit or for any power project in 

 which power is to be used by a municipal corpora- 

 tion for municipal purposes. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has authority to 

 permit the use of rights-of-way through the Na- 

 tional Forests for conduits, reservoirs, power 

 plants, telephone and telegraph lines to be used for 

 irrigation, mining, and domestic purposes and for 

 the production and transmission of electric power. 

 No rental charges are made for the telephone and 

 telegraph rights-of-way, but the applicant must 

 agree to furnish such facilities to Forest officers and 

 to permit such reasonable use of its poles or lines 

 as may be determined or agreed upon between the 

 applicant and the District Forester. 



