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the recommendation and will state whether the site is valuable for 

 water-power purposes. The district forester will prepare and submit 

 to the Forester a letter to the Secretary of the Interior for the signa- 

 ture of the Secretary of Agriculture, recommending the revocation of 

 the withdrawal or a draft of an Executive order revoking the with- 

 drawal, as the case may be. The letter to the Secretary of the 

 Interior must give the name of the site, the date of withdrawal, a 

 description of the land withdrawn if surveyed, and if unsurveyed its 

 approximate location by metes and bounds, including the meridian, 

 the name of the National Forest and State, the approximate number 

 of acres included and the value, if any, of the site for water-power 

 purposes. The Secretary's letter or the draft of the Executive order 

 will be accompanied by the supervisor's letter and, if necessary, by a 

 memorandum from the district forester to the Forester. The sub- 

 sequent procedure will be the same as when a withdrawal is recom- 

 mended. When an administrative site is canceled or revoked the 

 administrative site notices will be at once removed from the area. 

 Supervisors will include in their statistical report (Form 446) to 

 the district forester, due on July 15, a statement for 

 Annual report the preceding fiscal year of administrative sites, 

 by supervisor and Annually on August 1 the district forester will submit 

 to the Forester, on standard atlas pages, a report on 

 administrative sites. The report will be in the form prescribed in 

 advance by the Forester. 



In all cases where it is necessary to obtain from a lake, spring, or 

 water course (natural streams, including rivers, 

 Water appro- cree k S) runs, and rivulets) water for use on an admin- 

 istrative site for domestic or irrigation purposes the 

 provisions of the State laws with reference to the appropriation and 

 use of water must be fully complied with. Reimbursement will be 

 made for expenses incurred in taking the steps incident to complying 

 with the law. The district foresters will issue separate circulars to 

 the supervisors in each State in then* respective jurisdictions fully 

 explaining the requirements of the State law and embodying such 

 forms as it may be necessary for the Forest officers to use. Since 

 August 30, 1890, rights of way for ditches and canals are reserved to 

 the United States in all patents issued west of the one hundredth 

 meridian. 



