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the chief engineer by letter of the fact and date of the signature of 

 the permit, and will send one copy of the permit to the supervisor, 

 together with a copy of the Form 861. 



If the application involves both National Forest and Interior 

 Department lands, the case will be handled in a manner similar to 

 that outlined for preliminary applications. (See p. 53.) 



TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AND POWER-TRANSMISSION LINES, ACT 

 OF MARCH 4, 1911 (36 STAT., 1253). 



Applications for telephone, telegraph, and power-transmission 

 lines, under the act of March 4, 1911, will be filed with the district 

 forester and will conform* to the requirements of applications for 

 power-transmission lines under the act of February 15, 1901, as set 

 forth in Keg. L-9 and Reg. L-ll, except that two original tracings 

 will be required. 



On the receipt of applications for right of way grants the district 

 engineer will examine them in the order of their receipt as certified 

 by the district forester, with a view of determining whether the appli- 

 cations 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 the incompleteness 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. 



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. 



Upon receiving the supervisor's report the district forester will 

 prepare five copies of the stipulation on Form 69. The file copy 

 will be initialed by the district engineer and the district forester. If 

 the application is for a power-transmission line^ the district forester 

 will send to the applicant with the stipulation 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 stipulation is not executed and returned and the rental 

 charges 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. 



If the application is for a telephone or telegraph line, the district 

 forester will, in preparing the stipulation, add such special conditions 

 as may be necessary in order to secure such facilities for forest officers 

 or such use of the lines and poles of the applicant as may be necessary 

 or convenient in the conduct of National Forest business or as may 

 aid in the protection of the National Forests. In the letter transmit- 

 ting the stipulations for the signature of the applicant the district 

 forester shall inform him that any priority established under his 

 application will be lost if the stipulation is not executed and returned 



