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as certified by the district forester, with a view of determining 

 whether the applications are complete as required by the regulations. 

 If complete, the district engineer will certify to the fact in the space 

 provided on the form (Form 58a). If incomplete or insufficient, 

 the district engineer will prepare for the signature of the district 

 forester a letter to the applicant returning the application, or so much 

 of it as is incorrect or incomplete, with a detailed statement of in- 

 completeness or insufficiency. A carbon copy of this letter, certified 

 by the initial of the district engineer, will be attached to and filed 

 with the papers in the case. 



Upon the return of the amended papers the date and hour of their 

 receipt will be certified by the district forester in the same manner 

 as when they were originally received. 



Xo application for a preliminary permit for a power transmission 

 line, except in connection with a general power project to be covered 

 by a power permit, will be accepted, but only an application for a 

 final permit as prescribed in the regulations. (See Reg. L-ll.) 



Upon the completion of the application the district forester will 

 forward to the supervisor a copy of the application, together with 

 two prints of the maps. Upon the receipt of the maps and other 

 papers the supervisor will forward a print of the maps to the ranger, 

 will cause an immediate examination to be made for the purpose of 

 estimating the amount of timber to be cut or destroyed, and will 

 report to the district forester on Forms 964 and 5T8b. If the report 

 on Form 578b can not be made immediately, the report on Form 964 

 should be submitted at once, in order that the issuance of the permit 

 may not be delayed by the inability of the supervisor or the ranger 

 to make an immediate examination and report, upon the amount of 

 timber to be cut or destroyed. 



Upon receiving the supervisor's report the district forester will 

 prepare five copies of the permit on Form 63. The file copy will be 

 initialed by the district engineer and the district forester. The dis- 

 trict forester will then send the applicant a statement on Form 861 

 of the amount of the first year's rental charge, and will by letter 

 inform him that any priority established under his application will 

 be lost if the rental charges are not paid within 90 days from the date 

 of the letter accompanying the statement, unless such time is extended 

 by the written authority of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Upon the receipt of notification from the district fiscal agent that 

 the payment has been made the district forester will send the original 

 of the Form 861 to the applicant and will send to the chief engineer 

 two copies of the complete application, two prints of the map of loca- 

 tion, three copies of the permit, including the original and file copy 

 and the correspondence file. 



The chief engineer, if he approves the application and the form of 

 permit, will initial the file copy, and after retaining one copy of the 

 application and one print of the maps of location for his files will 

 forward the remaining papers to the Forester. 



Upon the receipt of the papers the Forester will, if he approves 

 the application and the form of permit, sign the original. The origi- 

 nal and file copy of the permit and all the other papers, except a print 

 of the maps of location, will then be returned to the district forester. 



Upon the receipt of the papers from the Forester the district for- 

 ester will forward to the permittee the original permit, will inform 



