8 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



For lands of the United States which are outside the National 

 Forests: To the local land office of the land district in which the 

 lands are situated (unless otherwise directed by the regulations of 

 the Department of the Interior). 



For lands in part National Forest lands and in part lands of the 

 United States outside the National Forests: In the same manner as 

 for National Forest lands, but the applicant shall also submit to the 

 local land office in the land district in which the lands outside the 

 National Forests are situated such maps and papers and copies 

 thereof as are required in the regulations of the Department of the 

 Interior. 



Reg. L-3. Priority of consideration of applications for final 

 power permits shall be initiated in the order of filing complete appli- 

 cations, whether such applications be for preliminary permits as pre- 

 scribed in Regulation L-10 or for final permits as prescribed in 

 either Regulation L-ll or Regulation L-12. If a preliminary per- 

 mittee shall file such complete application for final permit before loss 

 of priority initiated by the application for preliminary permit, the 

 priority so initiated shall be maintained by the application for final 

 permit and be effective as of the date of the application for the pre- 

 liminary permit. Priority shall be maintained, however, only in so 

 far as the projects shown in, the application for final permit are 

 within the approximate limits of diversion and discharge as shown in 

 the application for the preliminary permit. Priority initiated or 

 maintained by an application for final permit shall be lost if the 

 applicant fails to make the payment required and to return a duly 

 executed stipulation as prescribed in Regulation L-14 or in Regula- 

 tion L-15 within 90 days from a date fixed in the letter transmitting 

 such stipulation to him, unless a longer time is allowed by written 

 authority of the Secretary. Priority initiated by an application for 

 preliminary permit shall be lost (1) if the initial payment is not 

 made within 60 days of demand therefor, or (2) if the application 

 for final permit is not filed within the time required in the prelimi- 

 nary permit. Priority initiated or maintained by an application for 

 a permit shall be lost if the permit is revoked. No other applica- 

 tion, either preliminary or final, for a like use covering in whole or 

 in part the same or adjacent lands will be accepted from the per- 

 mittee whose priority is lost until the expiration of one year there- 

 after ; and this restriction shall extend to transferees of the permittee, 

 and if the permittee is a corporation, to reincprporations representing 

 the same or associated interests, whenever in the judgment of the 

 Secretary a transfer or reincorporation has been effected for the pur- 

 pose or with the result of escaping the restriction of this regulation, 

 it being the intent of such restriction to leave open to other appli- 

 cants for a period of one year power sites upon which priorities have 

 lapsed as provided in this regulation. 



Reg. L-4:. Final permits will be issued only in case it appears 

 that the proposed occupancy and use will be in general accord with 

 the most beneficial utilization of the resources involved and con- 

 sistent with the public interest. No final power permit will be issued 

 if the works to be constructed thereunder will in any way interfere 

 with works operated or constructed or to be constructed under an 

 existing final power permit. No final power permit will be issued 



