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reports of the power business as the Secretary may direct : Provided, 

 however, That if the laws of the State in which the power business 

 or any part thereof is transacted require periodical reports from 

 public-utility corporations under a uniform system of accounting, 

 copies of such reports so made will be accepted as fulfilling the 

 requirements of this clause. 



(I) To protect all Government and other telephone, telegraph, 

 and power-transmission lines at crossings of and at all places of prox- 

 imity to the permittee's transmission line in a workmanlike manner 

 according to the usual standards of safety for construction, operation, 

 and maintenance in such cases, and to maintain transmission lines in 

 such manner as not to menace life or property. 



( J) To clear and keep clear all lands of the power project for such 

 width and in such manner as the Forest officers may direct. 



(K) To dispose of all brush, refuse, or unused timber on National 

 Forest lands resulting from the construction and maintenance of the 

 project works, as may be requested by the Forest officers. 



(L) To build and repair roads and trails as required by the 

 Forest officers, or other agents of the United States, whenever any 

 existing roads or trails are destroyed or injured by the construction 

 work or flooding under permit ; and to build and maintain necessary and 

 suitable crossings for all roads and trails which intersect the water 

 conduit, if any. constructed, maintained, or operated under permit. 



(M) To do everything reasonably within the power of the per- 

 mittee, its employees, contractors, and employees of contractors, both 

 independently and on request of the Forest officers, or other agents 

 of the United States, to prevent and suppress fires upon or near the 

 lands occupied under permit. 



(N) To pay the full value, as fixed by the district forester, of all 

 timber cut, injured, or destroyed on National Forest lands in the 

 construction, maintenance, and operation of the project works. 



(O) To pay the United States full value resulting from the break- 

 ing of or the overflowing, leaking, or seeping of water from the 

 project works, and for all other damage to the lands or other prop- 

 erty of the United States caused by the neglect of the permittee or 

 of the employees, contractors, or employees of the contractors of the 

 permittee. 



(P) To indemnify the United States against any liability for 

 damage to life or property arising from the occupancy or use of 

 National Forest lands by the permittee. 



(Q) To sell power to'the United States, when requested, at as low 

 a rate as is given to any other purchaser for a like use at the same 

 time and under similar conditions if the permittee can furnish the 

 same to the United States without diminishing the quantity of power 

 sold before such request to any other customer by a binding contract 

 of sale: Provided, That nothing in this clause shall be construed to 

 require the permittee to increase permanent works or to install ad- 

 ditional generating machinery. 



(E) To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service ren- 

 dered and to be rendered by the permittee to consumers of power 

 furnished or transmitted by the permittee, and of rates of payment 

 therefor, as may from time to time be prescribed by the State or any 

 duly constituted agency of the State in which the service is rendered!. 



(S) Upon demand therefor in writing from the Secretary to sur- 

 render the permit to the United States or to transfer the same to such 



