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for the construction of works within an area covered by a prior pre- 

 liminary permit until after the filing of final application or the loss 

 of priority by the prior preliminary permittee. Applications for 

 final power permits involving in whole or in part the same lands will 

 be examined in order of their priority, but before the issuance of final 

 permit consideration may be given, in the discretion of the Secretary, 

 to the financial ability and business connections and affiliations of 

 the applicants. Successive preliminary permits may be issued coyer- 

 ing the same power site, but in each successive preliminary permit it 

 shall be specified that such permit is subordinate to all outstanding 

 prior permits and shall not adversely affect any rights thereunder. 



Reg. L-5. The applicant must file the evidence of initiation of 

 water appropriation as in these regulations hereafter required. 

 Thereafter no -protest against the issuance of a permit, if based 

 solely upon alleged lack of water rights, will be considered ; nor, in 

 general, will any allegation that the time of beginning or comple- 

 tion of construction has been or is delayed by litigation over water 

 rights be accepted as a sufficient reason for granting any -extension of 

 time. Wherever the approval of a local administrative board or com- 

 mission is a condition precedent to the right either to take and use 

 water for power purposes or to engage in the business of the genera- 

 tion, transmission, or distribution of power, certified evidence of such 

 approval must be filed with the district forester before a final permit 

 will be issued. 



tteg. L-6. Unless sooner revoked by the Secretary, a final power 

 permit shall terminate at the expiration of 50 years from the date of 

 the permit. If, however, at any time not less than 2 or more than 

 12 years prior to the termination of the permit the permittee shall 

 formally notify the Secretary that he desires a new permit to occupy 

 and use such lands as are occupied and used under the existing per- 

 mit, and will comply with all then existing laws and regulations gov- 

 erning the occupancy and use of National Forest lands for power pur- 

 poses, the existing permit will be considered as an application for 

 such new permit. 



Reg. L-7. The following terms, wherever used in these regula- 

 tions, shall have the meaning hereby in this regulation assigned to 

 them, respectively, viz : 



" Municipal purposes " means and includes all purposes within 

 municipal powers as defined by the charter of the municipal corpo- 

 ration, where any such purpose is directly pursued by the municipal 

 corporation itself with the primary object of promoting the security, 

 health, good government, or general convenience of its inhabitants. 



" Power business " means the entire business of the applicant or 

 permittee in the generation, distribution, and delivery of power by 

 means of any one power system, together with all works and tangible 

 property involved therein, including freeholds and leaseholds in real 

 property. 



" Power system " means all interconnected plants and works for 

 the generation, distribution, and delivery of power. 



" Power project " means a complete unit of power development, 

 consisting of a power house, conduit or conduits conducting water 

 thereto, all storage or diverting or fore-bay reservoirs used in connec- 

 tion therewith, the transmission line delivering power therefrom, 



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