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Miscellaneous requirements. 



ART. 18. To protect all Government and other telephone, telegraph, and power 

 transmission lines at crossings of and at all places of proximity to the per- 

 mittee's transmission lines in a workmanlike manner according to the usual 

 standards of safety for construction, operation, and maintenance in such cases, 

 and to maintain the transmission lines in such manner as not to menace life 

 or property. 



AKT. 19. To clear and keep clear all lands of the power project for such 

 width and in such manner as the Secretary may direct. 



ART. 20. 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 required by the Secretary. 



ART. 21. To build and repair roads and trails as required by the Secretary, 

 whenever any existing roads or trails are destroyed or injured by the construc- 

 tion work or flooding under the permit, and to build and maintain -necessary and 

 suitable crossings, as required by the Secretary, for all roads and trails which 

 intersect the water conduit, if any, constructed, maintained, and operated under 

 the permit. 



ART. 22. To do everything reasonably within its power and to require of its 

 employees, contractors, and employees of contractors to do all reasonably within 

 their power, both independently and upon the request of the forest officers, to 

 prevent and suppress forest fires upon and near the lands to be occupied under 

 the permit. 



ART. 23. To pay in advance, as required by the Secretary, to the United States 

 depository or officer as above set forth in article 10 hereof, to be placed to the 

 credit of the United States, the full value as fixed by the Secretary of all timber 

 cut, injured, or destroyed on National Forest lands in the construction, mainte- 

 nance, or operation of the project works. 



ART. 24. To pay, on demand of the Secretary, to the United States depository 

 or officer, as above set forth in article 10 hereof, to be placed to the credit of 

 the United States, full value for all damage to the lands or other property of 

 the United States resulting from the breaking of, or the overflowing, leaking, 

 or seeping of water from the project works constructed, maintained, and, or, 

 operated under the permit, and for all other damage to the lands or other prop- 

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

 employees, contractors, or employees of contractors. 



ART. 25. To indemnify the United States against any liability for damages 

 to life or property arising from the occupancy or use of National Forest lands 

 by the permittee. 



ART. 26. To sell power to the United States, when requested, at ns 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 article 

 shall be construed to require the permittee to increase its permanent works or 

 to install additional generating machinery. 



ART. 27. To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service rendered 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. 



ART. 28. That upon demand therefor in writing from the Secretary the per- 

 mittee will surrender the permit to the United States or transfer the same to 

 such State or municipal corporation as the Secretary may designate, and on 

 the conditions specified in this article, and will also give, grant, bargain, sell, 

 and transfer with the permit (upon such demand and upon said conditions) 

 all works, equipment, structures, and property then owned or held and then 

 valuable or serviceable in the generation, transmission, or distribution of 

 electrical or other power, and which are then dependent in whole or in part 

 for their usefulness upon the continuance of the permit, together with all 

 interest in any leaseholds of operating property used in connection with the 

 works under the permit, and all contracts for the sale and delivery of elec- 

 trical or other power; that the Secretary may require such surrender, if the 

 United States shall desire to take over the permit and properties or, whenever a 

 substantial part of such property is situated elsewhere than on National Forest 

 lands, he may designate as such transferee any State or municipal corporation 

 which shall desire such transfer: Provided, however, That no municipal corpo- 



