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and appurtenant structures must be complete ; of power houses, only 

 general layout plans are required. 



Beg. L-16. An extension of the periods stipulated in the permit 

 for beginning or completing construction and for beginning opera-- 

 tion will be granted only by the written approval of the Secretary 

 after a showing by the permittee satisfactory to the Secretary that 

 beginning or completing construction and beginning operation has 

 been prevented by engineering difficulties that could not reasonably 

 have been foreseen or by other special and peculiar causes beyond the 

 control of the permittee. 



Reg. L-17. A final permit may be transferred to a new permittee 

 under the following conditions and not otherwise: The proposed 

 transferee shall file with the district forester of the district in which 

 the lands under permit are situated the decree, execution of judgment, 

 will, proposed contract of sale, or other written instrument upon 

 which the proposed transfer is based, or a properly certified copy 

 thereof, also an application by the proposed transferee in the form 

 of a stipulation binding the proposed transferee to the performance 

 of such new and additional conditions expressed therein as the Sec- 

 retary may deem necessary; and thereupon the Secretary may, in 

 his discretion, approve in writing the proposed transfer, and after 

 such approval the transferee shall succeed to all the rights and obli- 

 gations of the permittee, subject, however, to such new and additional 

 conditions as shall have been embodied in such agreement and so 

 approved. 



feeg. L-18. If any person shall make a false engineer's affidavit 

 under these regulations the Secretary may order that no map, field 

 notes, plan, or estimate made by such person shall be received or 

 filed while the order is in force. If any person or corporation for 

 himself or itself or as the attorney, agent, or employee of another, 

 shall offer or file any false engineer's affidavit, knowing the same 

 to be false, the Secretary may order that no application for a power 

 permit shall be filed by or received from the person or corporation 

 so offending, either in his or its own behalf or as attorney, agent, 

 or employee of another, and that no power permit shall be issued to 

 such person or corporation while the order is in force. 



Reg. L-19. Violation by a final permittee of any of the provi- 

 sions of these regulations, or of any of the conditions of a permit 

 issued to him thereunder, shall be sufficient ground for revocation of 

 such permit; but attention is called to the statute under which these 

 regulations are issued, which provides : 



That any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior (Agri- 

 culture) under the provisions of this act may be revoked by 

 him or by his successor in his discretion. 



No final permit will be deemed to be terminated except upon formal 

 revocation thereof by the Secretary and until the permittee shall have 

 had a reasonable time not to exceed 90 days within which to show 

 cause why such revocation should not be made. 



Reg. L-20. Any power project under permit, or any part thereof, 

 whether constructed or unconstructed, may be abandoned by the per- 

 mittee upon the written approval of the Secretary after a finding 



