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Misc. F.— 2.
\ Issued December 14, 1915.
U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
FOREST SERVICE.
HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester.
WATER POWER PROJECTS, TELEPHONE,
TELEGRAPH, POWER TRANSMISSION LINES
ON THE
NATIONAL FORESTS.
REGULATIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRI¬
CULTURE AND INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING
APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS FOR WATER¬
POWER PROJECTS UNDER THE ACT OF FEB¬
RUARY 15, 1901, AND FOR EASEMENTS FOR
TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AND POWER
TRANSMISSION LINES UNDER THE
ACT OF MARCH 4, 1911.
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WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1915.
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Misc. F.— 2.
Issued December 14, 1915.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
FOREST SERVICE.
HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester.
WATER POWER PROJECTS, TELEPHONE,
TELEGRAPH, POWER TRANSMISSION LINES
ON THE
NATIONAL FORESTS.
REGULATIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRI¬
CULTURE AND INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING
APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS FOR WATER¬
POWER PROJECTS UNDER THE ACT OF FEB¬
RUARY 15, 1901, AND FOR EASEMENTS FOR
TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AND POWER
TRANSMISSION LINES UNDER THE
ACT OF MARCH 4, 1911.
WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1915.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Begulations . 5
Act of February 15, 1901 . 5
Act of March 4, 1911 . 30
Instructions . 36
Applications under act of February 15, 1901 . 36
General statement . 36
Preliminary applications and permits for power proj¬
ects of more than 100 horsepower total capacity . . 40
Final applications and permits for projects of more
than 100 horsepower total capacity . 42
Final applications and permits for projects of 100
horsepower total capacity or less . 44
Transmission-line applications and permits . 45
Applications under act of March 4, 1911 . 47
Telephone, telegraph, and power- transmission lines. . 47
Forms . 49
58 — Application for preliminary power permit . 49
59 — Preliminary power permit . 50
60 — Application for final power permit . . 53
60a — Form of affidavit of engineer to accompany applica¬
tion for final power permit . 56
60b — Form of certificate of applicant to accompany appli¬
cation for final power permit . 57
61 — Power stipulation . 59
61b — Acknowledgment . 72
62 — Final power permit . 72
63 — Transmission-line permit . 63
68 — Transmission-line stipulation . 79
69 — Stipulations . 69
319 — Proof required of corporate officer’s authority to
sign agreements, permits, and bonds as principal . 89
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WATER POWER PROJECTS, TELEPHONE, TELE¬
GRAPH, POWER TRANSMISSION LINES.
REGULATIONS.
ACT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1901 (31 STAT., 790).
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REG. L-l. Preliminary power permits will be granted for
the purpose of preserving priority of application while appli¬
cants are securing the data necessary for applications for final
permits, and may allow such construction work as is necessary
to preserve water appropriations until final permits are se¬
cured. Preliminary permits will not be granted for transmis¬
sion lines alone or for power sites having a total capacity of
100 horsepower or less.
Final power permits will allow the occupancy and use of
National Forest lands for the construction, maintenance, and
operation thereon of project works for the development, trans¬
mission, and use of power.
Preliminary or final permits for power sites of a total ca¬
pacity in excess of 100 horsepower will be granted, amended,
extended, and renewed by the Secretary of Agriculture, here¬
inafter called “the Secretary.”
Permits for power sites of a total capacity of 100 horse¬
power or less will be granted, amended, extended, and renewed
by the district forester.
Permits for transmission lines will be granted, amended,
extended, and renewed: (1) By the Secretary when such per¬
mit is supplemental to an existing permit for a power site of
a total capacity in excess of 100 horsepower; (2) by the dis¬
trict forester when the transmission line is to be used in con¬
nection with a power site (whether under permit or not) of
a total capacity not to exceed 100 horsepower or when the
connected load upon the transmission line will not exceed 100
horsepower; (3) in all other cases by the Forester.
(5)
The Secretary alone may revoke power and transmission
line permits.
Note. — Since a preliminary permit merely protects an appli¬
cant’s priority, it is optional with him whether he will apply
for a preliminary permit or will secure without such permit the
data necessary for making an application for a final permit.
No permit is required for traveling, camping, or surveying
within National Forests, and camp wood and forage for neces¬
sary stock may be taken without specific permission and without
charge. Necessary cutting of timber in surveying for lawful
projects may be done without permit. Unnecessary cutting is
prohibited.
Total capacities for the purpose of this regulation will be
computed in accordance with the rule prescribed in Regula¬
tion U-7.
Whenever transmission lines are to be built in connection with,
or as extensions to, a power or transmission system already under
permit, the transmission-line permit will be made supplemental
to the major permit. Lines transmitting purchased power
from systems not under permit, whether constructed and owned
by the power company or by the purchaser of the power and
regardless of the power capacity of such system, will be handled
by the district forester if the connected load upon the line does
not exceed 100 horsepower; otherwise permits will be issued by
the Forester.
Power plants and transmission lines forming part of a system
generating steam power only will not be handled under these
regulations except upon specific request of applicants. Such
use will be authorized by special-use ” permits.
REG. L-2. Applications for preliminary or final permits,
whether for maintenance or priority of application or for occu¬
pancy and use of lands of the United States within National
Forests, shall be filed with the district forester of the district
in which the lands are situated, except that applications for
permits in the Territory of Alaska may be filed either with
the district forester or with the supervisor of the National
Forest in which the lands are situated.
Note. — If a proposed project will include lands of the United
States outside of the National Forests, as well as those within,
the regulations of the Department of the Interior require that
applicants shall also submit to the local land office, in the land
district in which such lands are situated, such maps and papers
and copies thereof as are required by the regulations of that
department.
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If the project will include lands of the United States wholly
outside the National Forests, application should be made to the
local land office of the land district in which the lands are situ¬
ated, in accordance with the regulations of the Department of
the Interior.
Preliminary applications should be prepared in accordance
with Regulation L-10 and final applications in accordance with
Regulation L-ll or Regulation L-12, depending upon the size of
the project.
REG. L-3. Applications for final permits will be given con¬
sideration in the order of the relative priorities therefor.
Such priorities may be initiated by the filing of preliminary
applications as prescribed in Regulation L-10 or of final appli¬
cations as prescribed in either Regulation L-ll or Regulation
L-12. If a preliminary permittee shall file complete final ap¬
plication before loss of priority initiated by the preliminary
application, the priority so initiated shall be maintained by
the final application and be effective as of the date of the pre¬
liminary application. Priority shall be maintained, however,
only in so far as the projects shown in the final application are
within the approximate limits of diversion and discharge as
shown in the preliminary application.
Priority initiated or maintained by a final application shall
be lost if the applicant fails to make the payment required
and to return a duly executed stipulation, as prescribed in
Regulation L-14 or in Regulation L-15, on or before a date
fixed in the letter transmitting such stipulation to him, unless
upon a satisfactory showing therefor, filed with the district
forester before said date, the district forester shall extend the
time originally named.
Priority initiated by a preliminary application shall be lost
(1) if the initial payment is not made on or before a date fixed
by the district forester in the letter transmitting the request
for payment, unless upon a satisfactory showing therefor,
filed with the district forester before said date, the district
forester shall extend the time originally named; or (2) if the
application for final permit is not filed before the date speci¬
fied in the preliminary permit, unless additional time shall
have been allowed by written authority of the Secretary upon
a showing by the permittee, filed with the district forester
prior to said date, that the filing of final application has been
prevented by unusual climatic conditions that could not rea¬
sonably have been foreseen or by some special or peculiar
cause beyond the control of the permittee.
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Priority initiated or maintained by an application for permit
shall be lost if the permit is revoked.
No other application, either preliminary or final, for a like
use (except for transmission lines) covering in whole or in
part the same or adjacent lands will be accepted from a per¬
mittee whose priority is lost until the expiration of one year
thereafter; and this restriction shall extend to transferees of
the permittee and, if the permittee is a corporation, to rein¬
corporations representing the same or associated interests,
whenever in the judgment of the Secretary a transfer or
reincorporation has been effected for the purpose or with the
result of escaping the restriction of this regulation, it being
the intent of such restriction to leave open to other applicants
for a period of one year power sites upon which priorities
have lapsed, as provided in this regulation.
Note. — In transmitting stipulations for signature or letters of
transmittal for payment of charges, the district forester will
name a date upon which stipulations must be returned and pay¬
ment made on penalty of loss of priority.
REG. L-4. Final permits will be issued only if it appears
that the proposed occupancy and use will be in general accord
with the most beneficial utilization of the resources involved
and consistent with the public interest. No final permit will
be issued if the works to be constructed thereunder will un¬
reasonably interfere with the construction or operation of
works authorized by existing final permits. No final permit
will be issued for the construction of works within an area
covered by a prior preliminary permit until after the filing of
final application or the loss of priority by the prior prelimi¬
nary permittee.
Applications for final permits involving in whole or in part
the same lands will be examined in order of their priority, but
before the issuance of final permit consideration may be given
to the financial ability and business connections and affiliations
of the applicants.
Successive preliminary permits may be issued covering the
same power site, but in each successive preliminary permit it
shall be specified that such permit is subordinate to all out¬
standing prior permits and shall not adversely affect any
rights thereunder.
The rejection of an application shall be final unless an
appeal therefrom is filed with the district forester (in the
Territory of Alaska it may be filed with the forest super¬
visor) within the time named therefor by the officer rejecting
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the application. Such appeal shall set forth fully the facts
and arguments upon which it is taken.
Note. — Decisions rejecting applications, whether made by the
Secretary, by the Forester, or by the district forester, will be
forwarded to the applicant by the district forester accompanied
by a letter fixing a definite date on or before which an appeal
must be taken or the case will be closed.
REG. L-5. Wherever the approval of a State administrative
official, board, or commission is a condition precedent to the
right either to take and use water for power purposes or to
engage in the business of the generation, transmission, or
distribution of power, certified evidence of such approval must
be filed with the district forester before a final permit will be
issued. Formal notification by such official, board, or com¬
mission that the water right has been canceled or the permis¬
sion to engage in the power business withdrawn will be
deemed sufficient grounds for the revocation of the permit.
REG. L-6. Final permits will be issued for a period not to
exceed 50 years from the date of issuance thereof. If, how¬
ever, at any time not less than 2 nor more than 12 years prior
to the termination of the permit the permittee shall formally
notify the Secretary that he desires a new permit to occupy
and use such lands as are occupied and used under the exist¬
ing permit and will comply with all then existing laws and
regulations governing the occupancy and use of National For¬
est lands for power purposes, the existing permit will be
considered as an application for such new permit.
Whenever in his opinion the public interest requires it the
Secretary may grant an indeterminate permit in lieu of a
fixed-term permit, but such indeterminate permit shall ex¬
pressly state that it is subject to the right of the United
States, of the State, or of a municipal corporation to purchase
as provided in Regulation L-14, paragraph (S) hereof; that
it may be terminated for cause as provided in Regulation L-19
hereof; or that it may be otherwise modified or terminated
according to law. Such permit shall also provide for a read¬
justment of its terms at intervals of not less than 20 years to
conform to regulations existing at the time of readjustment.
REG. L-7.‘The following terms, wherever used in these
regulations, shall have the meaning hereby in this regulation
assigned to them, respectively, viz:
“ Municipal purposes ” means and includes all purposes
within municipal powers as defined by the charter of the
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municipal corporation, where any such purpose is directly
pursued by the municipal corporation itself with the primary
object of promoting the security, health, good government, or
general convenience of its inhabitants.
“ Power business ” means the entire business of the appli¬
cant or permittee in the generation, distribution, and delivery
of power by means of any one power system, together with all
works and tangible property involved therein, including free¬
holds and leaseholds in real property.
“ Power project ” means a complete unit of power develop¬
ment, consisting of a power house, conduit or conduits con¬
ducting water thereto, all storage or diverting or fore-bay
reservoirs used in connection therewith, the transmission line
delivering power therefrom, any other miscellaneous struc¬
tures used in connection with said unit or any part thereof,
and all lands the occupancy and use of which are necessary or
appropriate in the development of power in said unit.
“ Project works ” means the physical structures of a power
project.
“ Construction of project works ” means the actual construc¬
tion of dams, water conduits, power houses, transmission
lines, or some permanent structure necessary to the operation
of a complete power project, and does not include surveys or
the building of roads and trails, or the clearing of reservoir
sites or other lands to be occupied, or the performance of any
work preliminary to the actual construction of permanent
project works.
“ Primary transmission line ” means the main line or lines
over which power is delivered from a power house, or gener¬
ating station, at the voltage of the high-tension side of the
station transformers.
“ Distance of primary transmission ” means the distance
measured along the primary transmission line from the power
house to the point of first reduction in line voltage by means
of transformers.
“ Operation period ” means the period covered by final per¬
mit subsequent to the actual beginning of operation.
“ Survey-construction period ” means the period covered by
preliminary and final permits prior to the operation period.
“ Nominal stream flow ” means the sum of (a) the flow
determined by averaging the values estimated for the natural
mean flow for the two-month (calendar) minimum-flow
period in each successive five-year period or major fraction
thereof, and (b) the stream flow made available from storage
by project works not under permit.
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“ Load factor ” means the ratio of average power output to
maximum power output.
“Total capacity of the power site ” means the continued
product of (1) the factor 0.08 1; (2) the average effective head
in feet; (3) the stream flow estimated to be available at the
intake (in second-feet and in amount not to exceed the maxi¬
mum hydraulic capacity of the project works) considered as
the sum of (a) the nominal stream flow and (b) stream flow
made available from storage by project works under permit;
and (4) a factor not less than the average load factor of the
power system, representing the degree of practicable utiliza¬
tion of the stream flow estimated to be available and based on
the extent of fore-bay storage and the load factor of the
power system.
“ Rental capacity of the power site ” means the capacity on
which the rental charges are based. Unless otherwise ordered
by the Secretary, it will be determined by making the follow¬
ing deductions from the total capacity of the power site.
(a) Whenever power projects include water-conduit or
intake-reservoir sites not wholly on National Forest lands a
deduction will be made from that part of the total capacity of
the power site which is due to the use of the nominal stream
flow. This deduction will be, in per cent, the sum of (1) the
product of the proportion of the average effective head ob¬
tained from the dam by the per cent of submerged lands below
the flow line fixed by the average effective head that are not
National Forest lands, and (2) the product of the proportion
of the average effective head obtained from the water conduit
by the per cent of the length of said conduit which is not
located on National Forest lands.
(b) Whenever power projects include reservoir sites not
wholly on National Forest lands, a deduction will be made
from that part of the total capacity of the power site which
is due to the use of stream flow made available from storage
by the project works under permit. This deduction will be the
per cent of the total area of the reservoir sites that is not
National Forest land.
(c) From the total capacity of the power site which remains
after deductions (a) and (b) have been made will be made a
further deduction which, in per cent, shall be the product of
the square of the distance of primary transmission in miles
and the. factor 0.001, but in no case shall deduction (c) exceed
1 The factor 0.08 represents the horsepower at 70 per cent efficiency
of a second-foot of water falling through a head of 1 foot.
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25 per cent. Deductions will be made under this paragraph
only when the application is accompanied by a satisfactory
showing of the practicability and probability of the delivery of
power to the point named, and, in case of final permits, only
when the application is also accompanied by complete maps
and notes of survey of the proposed transmission line.
Note. — A feeder conduit is a conveyor of water, making avail¬
able to a power project the flow from a drainage other than that
from which the principal diversion is made. If diversion of
run-off is made from the drainage on which the power plant is
located, this will be termed the “ principal diversion ” ; if not,
the diversion yielding the greatest portion of the “ nominal
stream flow ” will be so termed.
The power capacity, due to the feeder conduit, means the con¬
tinued product of (1) the factor 0.03, (2) the average effective
head of the project in feet, (3) the load factor as above defined
and determined, and (4) the average stream flow made avail¬
able by the feeder conduit during the two consecutive months
of minimum flow for the whole or major part of each five-year
period.
The length of the feeder conduit will be considered as the
distance measured along the conduit from its intake to the
point where it discharges its contents into the drainage from
which the principal diversion is made, or into the conduit carry¬
ing such principal diversion.
The deduction for unreserved land along the feeder conduit
will be the product of its power capacity and the ratio of the
unreserved to total length of such feeder.
“ Primary transmission lines,” as used in these regulations
are to be distinguished from “ service lines,” which mean and
include lines operated at the voltage of the apparatus using the
power (lamps, motors, etc.) and having no voltage reduction at
the delivery end ; and from “ secondary transmission or distri¬
bution lines” which mean and include all lines operated at a
voltage intermediate between the “ primary transmission line ”
voltage and the “service-line” voltage. In computing deduc¬
tions for transmission-line distance, length of primary trans¬
mission lines only will be considered.
REG. L-8. The maintenance of priority under preliminary
permits and the occupancy and use of National Forest lands
under final permits for power sites of more than 100 horse¬
power total capacity (except as hereinafter provided in this
regulation) will be conditioned on the payment in advance for
each calendar year of a rental charge calculated from the
“rental capacity of the power site,” as defined in Regulation
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L-7, at the following rates per horsepower per year, unless
otherwise ordered by the Secretary:
For the unexpired portion of the calendar year and for the first full
calendar year of the survey-construction period and similarly for
the operation period _ $0. 10
For the second full calendar year of each of said periods - . 20
For the third year _ . 30
For the fourth year _ _ _ . 40
For the fifth year _ . 50
For the sixth year - . 60
For the seventh year - . 70
For the eighth year _ . 80
For the ninth year _ . 90
For the tenth and each succeeding year - 1. 00
At any time not less than ten years after the issuance of
final permit or after the last revision of rates of rental
charges thereunder the Secretary may review such rental
rates and impose such new rental rates as he may decide to
be reasonable and proper: Provided, That such rental rates;
shall not be so increased as to reduce the margin of income
(including appreciation in land values) from the power project
under permit over proper actual and estimated expenses (in¬
cluding reasonable allowance for renewals and sinking-fund
charges) to an amount which, in view of all the circumstances
(including fair development expenses and working capital)
and risks of the enterprise (including obsolescence, inade¬
quacy, and supersession) is unreasonably small, but the burden
of proving such unreasonableness shall rest upon the permittee.
The occupancy and use of National Forest lands under
transmission-line permits (except as hereinafter provided in
this regulation) will be conditioned on the payment in ad¬
vance for each calendar year of a rental charge of $5 for each
mile or fraction thereof, unless otherwise ordered by the
Secretary.
No rental charge will be made (1) for power projects of 100
horsepower total capacity or less or for transmission lines
used in connection therewith; (2) for primary transmission
lines which are part of a power project under permit; (3) for
any power project or transmission line when the power to be
developed or transmitted is to be used by a municipal cor¬
poration for municipal purposes or by any permittee for one
or more of the following purposes: (a) For irrigation as aux¬
iliary to irrigation works owned or operated by the permittee;
(b) for logging operations in connection with the purchase by
the permittee of National Forest timber under a timber-sale
agreement or for the manufacture into a merchantable prod¬
uct by the permittee of such timber so purchased; (c) for the
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temporary development of power to be used in the construc¬
tion of permanent project works under permit issued to the
permittee.
Whenever a power project is not used exclusively for the
purposes above named such proportional part of the full
schedule charge for any calendar year will be credited to the
permittee as the power developed by the projeot works and
used for the purposes above named bears to the total output of
the project works for said year. Such credits will be made
only upon application by the permittee accompanied by a
showing of fact satisfactory to the Secretary. Any amount
so credited will be applied to the cancellation of charges as
they may thereafter become due.
The rental charges on account of a preliminary permit will
be calculated from the rental capacity of the power site as
estimated by the Secretary at the time of granting such per¬
mit. The rental charges on account of a final permit will be
calculated from the rental capacity of the power site as esti¬
mated by the Secretary at the time of granting said final
permit: Provided, That said estimated rental capacity may
be adjusted by the Secretary (a) to provide for changes made
during construction; (b) annually to provide for changes in
ownership of lands in reservoir sites and on water-conduit
lines and for changes in length of primary transmission; (c)
to provide for changes in nominal stream flow whenever such
flow is increased or decreased because of additional storage
or otherwise; or (d) whenever not less than 10 years after
the determination of the last preceding estimated value there¬
of the permittee shall apply for or the Secretary give notice of
a redetermination of the rental capacity of the power site.
The first payment by every permittee shall be the charge
for a full year, but any excess of said payment over the pro
rata charge for the unexpired portion of the calendar year in
which the permit is issued will be credited to the permittee as
a part of his payment for the first full calendar year.
All payments made for the survey-construction period will
be credited to the permittee for the cancellation of charges as
they become due in the operation period.
If all or any part of the amounts due for rental charges as
required in the preliminary permit shall, after due notice has
been given, be in arrears for 60 days, then and thereupon the
preliminary permit shall terminate and be void without revo¬
cation by the Secretary. If all or any part of the amounts due
for rental charges as required in the final permit shall, after
due notice has been given, be in arrears for 90 days, then and
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thereupon Ihe final permit shall be subject to revocation by
the Secretary.
The decision of the Secretary shall be final as to all matters
of fact upon which the calculation of the capacities or rentals
depends.
Note. — Except when forming part of a power project of 100
horsepower total capacity or less the regular charge of $5 per
mile or fraction thereof will be made for all secondary trans¬
mission or service lines, as defined in the note to Regulation
L-7, whether such lines are included in the general permit or
are under supplementary or independent permit.
From the fact that probably in many instances the data for
the original calculations will be meager, provision is made for a
redetermination of the power capacity by 10-year intervals, to
admit of utilizing more complete data and to allow for possible
change of conditions.
REG. L-9. All applications for permits, whether preliminary
or final, shall, if the applicant be an individual, contain a
sworn statement that he is a citizen of the United States. If
the applicant is an association of citizens, the application shall
contain a sworn statement by each member that he is a citizen
of the United States. Associations must, in addition, submit
their articles of association; if there be none, the fact must be
stated over the signature of each member of the association.
If the applicant is an incorporated company, its applica¬
tion must be accompanied by the following papers:
(A) A copy of its articles of incorporation, duly certified to
by the officer of the State having custody of the original
thereof.
(B) If operating in a State other than that in which incor¬
porated, a certificate of the proper officer of the State that it
has complied with the laws of that State governing foreign
corporations to the extent required to entitle the company to
operate in such State.
(C) A true list, signed by the secretary, under the seal of
the company, showing the names and designations of its offi¬
cers and directors at the date of the filing of the items re¬
quired by this regulation.
REG. L-10. All applications for preliminary permits shall
consist of the following items (in addition to those specified
in Regulation L-9), each of which shall be dated and signed
by the applicant:
(D) An application in triplicate on Form 58.
(E) A map on tracing linen, not larger than 28 by 40 inches
and not smaller than 24 by 36 inches, with scale so selected as
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to show upon a single map the power project or projects ap¬
plied for, showing the approximate location of the dams,
reservoirs, conduits, power houses, and other project works.
The map shall show: For each reservoir site, the distance and
bearing of the dam from the nearest existing corner of the
public survey and approximately the position of the maximum
flow line; and for each water-conduit line, the distance and
bearing of each terminus from the nearest existing corner of
the public survey and the approximate location of the water
conduit. If on unsurveyed land, the distances and bearings
may be taken from a permanent mark on some natural object
or permanent monument that can be readily found and recog¬
nized.
(F) Estimates in triplicate for each power project of (1)
the total head to be utilized and the per cent thereof to be
obtained from dam and water conduit, respectively; (2) the
stream flow and the per cent thereof to be made available
from storage by the project works; (3) the area to be flooded
by back water from the diversion dam; (4) the length of the
proposed water conduit (from intake to tailrace outlet) ; (5)
the area and capacity of each proposed storage reservoir; (6)
the probable load factor of the power system; and (7) the
distance, in miles, of proposed primary transmission.
These estimates should be accompanied by a statement of
the data on which they are based, including stream measure¬
ments, rainfall, run-off and evaporation records, drainage
areas, probable points of delivery of power, and any other
pertinent information.
(G) If application is made for permission to prosecute con¬
struction under preliminary permit, the application shall be
accompanied by a duly certified copy of such notice or appli¬
cation, if any, as is required to be posted or filed, or both, to
initiate the appropriation of water under the local laws. This
notice or application should provide for use by the applicant
for a permit of sufficient water for the full operation of the
project works. If permission to construct is not applied for,
no notice of water right need be filed.
Application must be made for a definite, limited period only,
which period will allow a reasonable time for the preparation
and filing of the final application as prescribed in Regula¬
tion L-ll.
A preliminary application shall not initiate any priority
until every map or paper required by Regulation L-9 and by
this regulation shall have been filed in the manner prescribed.
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REG. L-ll. All applications for final permits to occupy and
use National Forest lands for power projects of more than 100
horsepower total capacity shall consist of the following items
(in addition to those specified in Regulation L-9) :
(D) An application in triplicate on Form 60.
(E) Maps of location and plans of structures on tracing
linen, cut to a uniform size not larger than 28 by 40 inches
and not smaller than 24 by 36 inches, with graphical scale not
less than 6 inches in length drawn thereon. Separate sheets
shall be used for maps of location whenever the whole survey
can not be shown upon a single sheet.
(1) The following maps and plans shall be submitted for
each reservoir that will be a part of the power project or
projects applied for: (a) A contour map of each reservoir
site, dam, and dam site on a scale of not more than 400 feet
to the inch, with a contour interval of not more than 10 feet.
The contour map for each reservoir site shall show the high-
water flow line and, in case the reservoir is to be used in
whole or in part for diversion purposes, the flow line fixed by
the estimated average effective head and also a table or dia¬
gram of areas and capacities for each flow line and each con¬
tour line, (b) A cross section of each dam site along the
center line of the proposed dam, with a graphical log properly
located thereon of each boring, test pit, or other exploration,
and a brief statement of the character and dip of underlying
material, (c) Plans, elevations, and cross sections of the
dams, showing spillways, sluiceways, or sluice pipes, and other
outlet works, and also a statement of the volume of the dam,
the character of the materials used, and the type of con¬
struction.
(2) The following maps and plans shall be submitted for
the entire length of each water conduit, from intake to tail-
race outlet, that will be a part of the power project or projects
applied for: (a) Either a contour or a profile map and survey
(at the option of the applicant) of the entire water-conduit
location on a scale of not more than 400 feet to the inch. If
a contour survey is made, the contours shall have an interval
of not more than 10 feet and shall cover an area of 100 feet
in width on each side of the center line of the water conduit
or a difference in elevation of at least 25 feet above or below
the grade line of the conduit. If a profile survey is made,
stations should be located at intervals not to exceed 100 feet,
and such stations should be shown upon maps, profiles, and
field notes. The map and profile of each section of line
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should be drawn upon the same sheet. This map shall show
the transit line of the survey and the center line of the pro¬
posed final location of the water conduit. The maps shall
also show what sections of the water conduit will be in flume,
ditch, tunnel, pipe, etc., and the grade of each secticn. (b)
Plans, elevations, and cross sections of each type of water
conduit, showing material, dimensions, grades, flow line, and
capacity and plans and elevations of intake works and fore
hays.
(3) A map on a scale of not more than 50 feet to the inch,
showing the proposed location of the power house, other
buildings, etc., shall be filed for each power-house site that
will be a part of the power project or projects applied for.
This map shall also state the proposed type and estimated
number and rated capacity of the water wheels and generators
to be used.
(4) A map of the survey of the proposed final location of
the center line of the transmission line, on a scale of not more
than 1,000 feet to the inch, shall be filed for such portions of
transmission lines as are located upon National Forest lands.
(5) A general map of the power project or projects ap¬
plied for on such a scale that the entire survey may be shown
on a single sheet shall be submitted whenever more than two
detail sheets are required to show the entire location (see par.
(E)); also a similar map showing the entire primary trans¬
mission system from power houses to points of distribution.
Both power projects and transmission system may be shown
upon a single sheet, provided the combined map can be
drawn on a scale of not less than 2 inches to the mile. Gen¬
eral maps should also be prepared as key maps by indicating
thereon by outline and number (or letter) the location of the
areas covered by the several detail sheets.
(F) Copies of field notes in triplicate of the entire final
location survey of water conduits, and transmission lines, the
exterior boundaries of power-house and reservoir sites, and all
reference lines to public-land corners.
(G) Estimates in triplicate for each power project of (1)
the total average effective head to be utilized and the per cent
thereof to be obtained from dam and from water conduit, re¬
spectively; (2) the stream flow and the per cent thereof made
available from storage by the project works and by other
works, respectively; (3) the area to be flooded by the dam
below the flow line fixed by the estimated average effective
head; (4) the length of the proposed water conduit (from
intake to tailrace outlet) and the number, length, and size of
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pressure pipes; (5) the area and available capacity of each
proposed storage reservoir; (6) the available storage capacity
of fore-bays (or diversion ponds) ; (7) the probable load factor
of the power system; and (8) the distances in miles of primary
transmission.
These estimates should be accompanied by complete state¬
ments in detail of all data on which they are based, including
stream measurement, rainfall, run-off and evaporation rec¬
ords, drainage areas, total static head and losses in head,
probable maximum, minimum, and average power output,
load curves of the power system, efficiencies of machinery,
probable points of delivery of power, and all other pertinent
information.
(H) Such evidence of water appropriation as is specified in
Regulation L-10 (G). If such evidence has been filed with a
preliminary application, only such additional evidence, in gen¬
eral, will be required as will cover appropriations or trans¬
fers subsequent to the date of the evidence filed with the pre¬
liminary application. But wherever the approval of a local
administrative official, or board, or commission is a condition
precedent to the right either to take and use water for power
purposes or to engage in the business of the generation,
transmission, or distribution of power, certified evidence of
such approval must also be filed with the application for final
permit. (See Reg. L-5.)
(I) A detailed statement in triplicate by the applicant of
the time desired for making financial arrangements, for com¬
pleting preliminary construction, and for beginning “ con¬
struction of project works,” as defined in Regulation L-7.
(J) The application shall be accompanied by an affidavit of
the applicant’s engineer and a certificate of the anplicant.
(See pp. 57 and 58.) Affidavits and certificates will not be
placed upon maps, plans, and other exhibits, but will be filed
as a separate exhibit.
The maps and field notes shall show reference lines to
initial point of survey, to termini of water conduits, and to
termini of transmission lines (when within a National Forest
or not more than 2 miles outside its exterior boundary meas¬
ured along the transmission line). The maps and field notes
shall also show the intersection of the survey line with the
section lines of public-land surveys and with boundaries of
National Forests and other reservations of the United States.
The termini of water conduits, the termini of transmission
lines, the intersections with boundaries of reservations of the
United States, and the initial point of survey of power-house
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sites shall be fixed by reference by course and distance to the
nearest existing corner of the public survey. The initial point
of the survey of reservoir sites shall be fixed by reference by
course and distance to the nearest existing corner outside of
the reservoir by a line or lines not crossing an area that will
be covered with water when the reservoir is in use. When
any such terminus, intersection, or initial point is upon un¬
surveyed land, it shall be connected by traverse with an estab¬
lished corner of the public survey, and the distance from the
terminus, intersection, or initial point to the corner shall be
computed and noted on the map. When the nearest estab¬
lished corner of the public survey is more than 2 miles dis¬
tant, this connection may be with a permanent mark on a
natural object or a permanent monument which can be readily
found and recognized. The field notes shall give an accurate
description of the natural object or monument and full data
of traverse, as required above. The intersections of the sur¬
vey lines with section lines of the public-land survey shall be
referenced by course and distance to the nearest existing
corner along the section lines intersected. If no corner can be
found within a half mile of the survey line, the fact may be
noted on the map and in the field notes and the reference
omitted. The maps shall also show all lines of public-land
subdivisions by official survey; the protractions on unsur¬
veyed land of section and township lines, such protractions in
any National Forest to conform to the diagram accompanying
the proclamation establishing the boundaries of such National
Forest; and the status as to ownership of all lands of the
power project or projects, designating separately lands pat¬
ented, lands of the United States entered or otherwise em¬
braced in an unperfected claim under the public-land laws,
unreserved lands of the United States, and, separately for
each reservation, lands included within National Forests and
other reservations of the United States. Elevations and con¬
tour lines shall be based on United States Geological Survey
datum whenever available.
Each separate original map, plan, set of field notes, estimates
and data, evidence of water appropriation, articles of incor¬
poration, etc., shall be plainly marked “ Exhibit A,” “ Exhibit
B,” etc., respectively, and referred to by such designation in
the application. Maps and plans shall, in addition, be de¬
scribed in the application by their titles as “ Exhibit A, map
of location of,” etc., “ Exhibit B, plan of,” etc. Duplicate and
triplicate copies, when required, should be marked “ Ex¬
hibit — , duplicate,” “ Exhibit — , triplicate.” Maps should
be rolled for mailing and should not be folded.
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A final application shall not initiate or maintain any priority
until every map or paper required by Regulation L-9 and by
this regulation has been filed in the manner prescribed.
Note. — Certificate to the completeness of an application will
not be given unless data have been filed under all the items
prescribed above and there appears to have been a bona fide
attempt to comply fully with the regulation.
Mere sketches of structures will not be accepted as fulfilling
the requirements of paragraph (E), subdivisions (1) (c) and
(2) (&). These should be actual dimension plans of structures
designed for construction at the locations proposed.
REG. L-12. No applications will be accepted for preliminary
permits for power projects of 100 horsepower total capacity
or less. Applications for final permits for such projects shall
be in writing, dated and signed by the applicant, and, in addi¬
tion to the items specified in Regulation L-9, shall be accom¬
panied by:
(D) A map showing the location of dams, reservoirs, con¬
duits, power houses, and transmission lines or other works.
(E) Field notes of the survey.
(F) A statement of the amount of water to be diverted for
use, the maximum capacity of the diversion works, and the
total head to be utilized.
(G) Such showing as is specified in Regulation L-ll (H).
The map shall be drawn on tracing linen and may be on any
convenient scale. The map shall show, with reasonable accu¬
racy, the extent and location of each reservoir site, water con¬
duit, power-transmission line, and power-house site. It shall
also show: For each reservoir site, the distance and bearing
of the initial point of survey from the nearest existing corner
of the public survey, the location of the maximum-flow line,
the area and available storage capacity of the reservoir; for
each water conduit or power-transmission line, the distance
and bearing of each terminus from the nearest corner of the
public survey, the location of the center line of the conduit or
transmission line, its length and intersections of the center
line with the boundaries of National Forests and other reser¬
vations of the United States; and for each power-house site,
the distance and bearing of the initial point of survey from
the nearest corner of the public survey, the location of the
exterior boundaries of the site, and the area. If on unsur¬
veyed land, or if on surveyed land and corners can not be
found within 1 mile, the distances and bearings may be taken
from a permanent mark on some natural object or permanent
monument that can be readily found and recognized.
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In the case of temporary developments only the district
forester may in his discretion waive such of the preceding
requirements as are not necessary to the purpose of such
application.
Note. — The requirements of this regulation are necessary in
order that rights of way under permit may be located suffi¬
ciently to protect the permittee against subsequent applications
and in order that entry may be made on the tract books of the
General Land Office.
REG. L-13. Before a final power permit will be issued the
permittee shall (except in cases involving sites of a total
capacity of 100 horsepower or less) execute and file a stipu¬
lation, which will be prepared and submitted to him by the
district forester and which upon its acceptance shall consti¬
tute and express the conditions of the permit. Such stipula¬
tion shall expressly bind the applicant to such of the items
enumerated in Regulation L-14 and such other conditions as
may be required.
REG. L-14. In so far as applicable to the specific occupancy
and use under permit, the occupancy and use of National
Forest lands for power purposes will be permitted upon the
following conditions and not otherwise; and these conditions
shall also apply to all existing permits, in which the occu¬
pancy and use of National Forest land is conditioned upon
the compliance by the permittee with the regulations of the
Secretary as at any time existing. In general such conditions
will be embodied in a stipulation to be signed by the applicant,
but whether so embodied or not, and in so far as applicable,
the permittee will be bound:
(A) To construct the project works on the location shown
upon and in accordance with the maps and plans submitted
with the final application for permit and to make no material
deviation from said location unless and until maps and plans
showing such deviation shall have been submitted and ap¬
proved. (See Reg. L-15.)
(B) To begin the construction of the project works, or the
several parts thereof, within a specified period or periods from
the date of execution of the permit, and thereafter to dili¬
gently and continuously prosecute such construction, unless
temporarily interrupted by climatic conditions or by some
special or peculiar cause beyond the control of the permittee.
(C) To complete the construction and begin the operation
of the project works, or the several parts thereof, within a
specified period or periods from the date of execution of the
permit. '
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(D) That except when prevented by unavoidable accidents
or contingencies, the permittee will operate in good faith and
as continuously as may be possible under prevailing market
requirements, the project works constructed, maintained, or
operated in whole or in part under permit; will neither dis¬
continue the operation of said project works nor reduce the
amount of power developed or transmitted by the same at
such a time or in such a manner as to reduce the output of
electric energy required by the consuming public, or to in¬
crease the market price therefor, or to discriminate between
consumers, or to prejudice the public interests; and, if there
is discontinuance of operation or reduction in the amount of
power generated or transmitted for a continuous period of
more than thirty (30) days or for an aggregate period of
more than ninety (90) days in any calendar year, will notify
the district forester of the fact of such discontinuance or re¬
duction, and of the reasons therefor.
(E) To pay annually, in advance, such rental charges as
may be fixed and required by the Secretary under these regu¬
lations. (Reg. L-8.)
(F) On demand of the Secretary to install at such places
and maintain in good operating condition in such manner as
shall be approved by the Secretary, free of all expense to the
United States, accurate meters, measuring weirs, gauges, or
other devices approved by the Secretary, and adequate for the
determination of the amount of power developed by the project
works and of the flow of the stream or streams from which
the water is to be diverted for the operation of the project
works and of the amount of water used in the operation of
the project works -and of the amount of water held in and
drawn from storage; to keep accurate and sufficient records of
the foregoing determinations to the satisfaction of the Secre¬
tary ; and to make a return during January of each year,
under oath, of such of the records of measurements for the
year ending on December 31, preceding, made by or in the
possession of the permittee, as may be required by the
Secretary.
(G) That the books and records of the permittee, in so far
as they contain information concerning the power project or
projects under permit and the power business conducted in
connection therewith, shall be open at all times to the inspec¬
tion and examination of the Secretary or other officer or agent
of the United States duly authorized to make such inspection
and examination.
(H) On demand of the Secretary to maintain a system of
accounting of the entire power business conducted in connec-
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tion with the power project or projects under permit in such
form as the Secretary may prescribe or approve, which sys¬
tem, as far as practicable, will be uniform for all permittees,
and to render annually such 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, to the extent that they
furnish the necessary information, as fulfilling the require¬
ments of this clause.
(I) To protect all Government and other telephone, tele¬
graph, and power-transmission lines at crossings of and at all
places of proximity 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 to the satisfaction of the forest officers of
all brush, refuse, or unused timber on National Forest lands
resulting from the construction and maintenance of the
project works.
(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
permittee, and to require its employees, contractors, and em¬
ployees of contractors, to do everything reasonably within
their power, 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 for all damages
resulting from the breaking of or the overflowing, leaking, or
seeping of water from the project works, and for all other
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damage to the lands or other property 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 permit the use of any reservoir for the temporary
storage or for the transportation of logs, ties, poles, or lum¬
ber; and, upon demand of the Secretary, to construct, main¬
tain, and operate a logway or other device approved by the
Secretary and suitable for the passage of such logs, ties,
poles, or lumber over or around any dam without undue hin¬
drance or delay; and, unless otherwise approved by the Sec¬
retary, to furnish free of cost to users of such logway or
other device the machinery and the power necessary for the
operation of such logway or other device: Provided, however,
That the permittee shall not be required to furnish any labor
other than that necessary in the operation of the power ma¬
chinery used in connection with such logway or other device:
And provided further, That the use of said reservoir or of
such logway or other device by owners of such logs, ties,
poles, or lumber shall be under such rules and regulations
adopted by the permittee as may be approved by the Secretary.
(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 per¬
mittee 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 additional
generating machinery.
(R) To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service
to be rendered by the permittee to consumers of power fur¬
nished or transmitted by the permittee, and of rates of pay¬
ment therefor, as may from time to time be prescribed by the
State or by any duly constituted agency of the State in which
the service is rendered ; but if such regulation is not exercised
by the State or by any duly constituted agency thereof, that
the Secretary may upon the filing with him of formal com¬
plaint by the State, by a municipality, or by not less than
twenty-five (25) customers or prospective customers of the
permittee cause an inquiry to be made concerning the service
or rate of payment complained of; and if it shall appear upon
such inquiry that the service or the rate of payment com¬
plained of is unreasonable, the Secretary may fix the char¬
acter of the service and may name the rate of payment which
shall be rendered or charged.
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(S) Upon demand therefor in writing from the Secretary
to surrender the permit to the United States or to transfer the
same to such State or municipal corporation as the Secretary
may designate, and on the conditions specified in this para¬
graph; also to give, grant, bargain, sell, and transfer with
the permit (upon such demand and upon said conditions) such
works, equipment, structures, and property then owned or
held and then valuable or serviceable in the generation, trans¬
mission, 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, as may have been deter¬
mined by agreement with the Secretary and embodied in the
aforesaid stipulation: Provided, however, That such agreement
and such stipulation shall include only complete units of con¬
struction or of development: And provided further, That if
such agreement or stipulation shall not include all such afore¬
said works, equipment, structures, and property as are de¬
pendent in whole or in part for their usefulness upon the
continuance of the permit, the permittee shall waive all right
to demand or receive consequential damages for the sever¬
ance of any property taken under the provisions of this para¬
graph from any property not taken. The Secretary may
require such surrender if the United States shall desire to
take over the permit and properties, or he may designate as
such transferee any State or municipal corporation which
shall desire such transfer: Provided, however, That no munici¬
pal corporation shall be so designated unless by proceedings
in a court of competent jurisdiction it shall have been deter¬
mined that such a municipal corporation has the right to
acquire such property: And provided further, That no munici¬
pal corporation shall be so designated unless it also has the
power to acquire the said property and rights of the permittee
in accordance with the following conditions. Such surrender
or transfer shall be on condition precedent that the United
States or such transferee shall first pay to the permittee the
reasonable value of all said works, equipment, structures, and
other tangible property and, in addition thereto, a bonus of
three-fourths of 1 per cent of such reasonable value for each
full year of the unexpired term of the permit. Such reason¬
able value shall not include any sum for any permit, franchise,
or right granted by the United States, by any State, or by
any municipal corporation in excess of the amount (exclusive
of any tax or annual charge) actually paid to the United
States or to such State or municipal corporation as the com¬
pensation for the granting of such permit, franchise, or right,
or any sum for any other intangible properties or values
whatsoever, it being the intent of this paragraph that all such
intangible values shall be covered by the bonus herein pro¬
vided for. Such reasonable value shall be determined by
mutual agreement between the parties in interest and, in case
they can not agree, by a board of arbitration of three mem¬
bers, one of whom shall be named by the permittee and one
by the transferee; the third shall be either the Secretary or
some representative whom he may name. The reasonable
value, for the purposes of such determination, of such works,
equipment, structures, and other tangible property shall be
the actual and necessary cost thereof or, if such original cost
can not be determined with reasonable certainty, shall be the
cost of reproduction of such works, equipment, structures, and
other tangible property under substantially the same condi¬
tions as existed at the time of the original construction and at
prices for labor and material which shall be the average of
such prices for the five years next preceding the date of valua¬
tion, less a percentage of such original or such reproduction
cost equal to the per cent of physical and functional depre¬
ciation of the existing works, equipment, structures, and other
tangible property.
(T) That in respect to the regulation by any competent
public authority ,of the service to be rendered by the per¬
mittee or of the price to be charged therefor, and in respect
to any purchase or taking over of the properties or business
of the permittee or any part thereof by the United States, or
by any State within which such properties are situated or
business carried on, in whole or in part, or by any municipal
corporation in such State, no value whatsoever shall at any
time be assigned to or claimed for the permit or for the
occupancy or use of National Forest lands granted thereunder,
nor shall such permit or such occupancy and use ever be
estimated or considered as property upon which the permittee
shall be entitled to earn or receive any return, income, price,
or compensation whatsoever.
(U) That the works to be constructed, maintained, and
operated under the permit shall not be owned, leased, trusteed,
possessed, or controlled by any device or in any manner so
that they form part of or in any way effect any combination
in the form of an unlawful trust or form the subject of any
unlawful contract or conspiracy to limit the output of electric
energy or are in unlawful restraint of trade with foreign
nations or between two or more States or within any one
State in the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of
electric or other power.
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(V) That any approval of any alteration or amendment,
or of any map or plan, or of any extension of time, shall
affect only so much of the stipulation or permit as is spe¬
cifically covered by such approval; and that no approval of
any such alteration, amendment, or extension shall operate
to alter or amend, or in any way whatsoever be a waiver of
any other part, condition, or provision of the stipulation or
permit.
(W) That the permit shall be subject to all prior valid
claims and permits which are not subject to the occupancy
and use authorized under the permit applied for.
Note. — Paragraph (S) is included in stipulations for power
permits in order that permittees may not, on account of the
occupancy of lands of the United States, be immune against
the operation of State laws of eminent domain. The lands of
the United States, and permanent structures thereon which
under the common law are part and parcel of the land, are not
subject to condemnation without authority of Congress. Such
authority has not been given. The procedure which has been
provided leaves the interest of the United States unaffected,
while it fully protects the legitimate interests of the permittee
and of the transferee.
A procedure fixed by contract with the permittee has been
provided because the State laws of eminent domain are inoper¬
ative on the public lands. Valuation by a board of arbitration
has been provided, because, in the absence of specific authoriza¬
tion by Congress, jurisdiction in such proceedings could not be
conferred upon the courts. A bonus has been added in order
that the property of a permittee may not be taken away before
he has had opportunity to earn the expected return, unless he is
given compensation in addition to the cost of the properties.
This bonus would amount to about 35 per cent of the cost of the
properties should they be taken over upon completion.
REG. L-15. During the progress of construction amend¬
ments to maps of location or plans of structures will be re¬
quired from the permittee if there is to be a material devia¬
tion from the maps or plans as originally filed, but no devia¬
tion will be allowed which interferes with the occupancy and
use of lands under existing permits or pending applications.
Any approval of any such deviation, or of any amendment of
a map or plan, or of any extension of time, shall be in the
form of a supplemental stipulation and permit so drawn as to
become a part of the original stipulation and permit and a
substitute for the clauses amended. Any such approval shall
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apply only to the matter specifically covered thereby, and no
such approval shall operate to alter or amend or be in any
way a waiver of any other part, condition, or provision of the
stipulation or permit.
If after the completion of the project works there are any
deviations in location from those shown upon the original
maps or approved amendments thereof, additional maps, pre¬
pared in the manner prescribed for original maps of location,
and showing the extent of such deviations and the final loca¬
tions of such project works, will be required to be filed within
six months after the completion of the project works. Also
upon the completion of the project works detailed working
plans will be required of the works as constructed, except
such parts as have been constructed in compliance with plans
originally filed or approved amendments thereof. Such new
or additional plans may be originals on tracing linen or Van¬
dyke negatives of the permittee’s own working plans. The
plans of conduits, dams, and appurtenant structures must be
complete; of power houses, only general layout plans will be
required.
REG. L-16. An extension of the periods stipulated in the
permit for beginning or completing construction and for be¬
ginning operation will be granted only on the written approval
of the officer executing the same after a showing by the per¬
mittee satisfactory to such officer that beginning or complet¬
ing construction or operation has been prevented by engineer¬
ing difficulties that could not reasonably have been foreseen
or by other special and peculiar cause beyond the control of
the permittee.
REG. L-17. Permission to occupy and use National Forest
lands may be transferred to a new permittee under the fol¬
lowing 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 judg¬
ment, will, contract of sale, or other written instrument upon
which the proposed transfer is based, or a properly certified
copy thereof, also a written application for the transfer. A
stipulation binding the proposed transferee to the perform¬
ance of such of the old conditions and of such new and addi¬
tional conditions as the Secretary may deem necessary will be
prepared and submitted to the proposed transferee for exe¬
cution and return to the district forester; and thereupon, if
the Secretary approves of the transfer and issues a new per¬
mit, the transferee shall succeed to the rights and obligations
of the original permittee, subject, however, to such new and
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additional conditions as shall have been embodied in said
stipulation and permit.
REG. L-18. If any person shall make a false engineer’s affi¬
davit 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 Secre¬
tary may order that no application for a power permit shall be
filed by or received from the person or corporation so offend¬
ing, 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
provisions of these regulations, or of any of the conditions of
a stipulation executed by him or of a permit issued to him
thereunder, shall be sufficient ground for revocation of such
permit.
No final permit will be deemed to be terminated except upon
formal revocation thereof by the Secretary and until the per¬
mittee 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 aban¬
doned by the permittee upon the written approval of the Sec¬
retary after a finding by the Secretary that such abandonment
will not tend to prevent the subsequent development of such
project or part thereof so abandoned, and after the fulfillment
by the permittee of all the obligations under the stipulation
and permit, in respect to payment or otherwise, existing at
the time of such approval. Upon such abandonment, after
such approval thereof and fulfillment of existing obligations,
so much of the stipulation and permit as relates to the aban¬
doned project or part of a project will be formally revoked by
the Secretary.
ACT OF MARCH 4, 1911.— RIGHTS OF WAY FOR TELEPHONE, TELE¬
GRAPH, AND POWER-TRANSMISSION LINES.
REG. L-21. Rights of way over National Forest lands for
telephone, telegraph, and power-transmission lines, under the
act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1253), will be granted by the
Secretary of Agriculture.
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REG. L-22. All applications for rights of way over National
Forest lands for power-transmission lines or for telephone or
telegraph lines, under the said act of March 4, 1911, shall be
filed with the district forester of the district in which the
lands to be occupied are situated, except that such applications
in the Territory of Alaska may be filed either with the district
forester or with the supervisor of the National Forest in which
the lands are situated. Applications shall consist of —
(A) The items specified in Regulation L-9;
(B) Field notes of survey in triplicate;
(C) Maps of location on tracing linen in duplicate prepared
in the manner prescribed for transmission lines in Regulation
L-ll. Each sheet of maps shall in addition be verified by an
indorsement thereon in the following form;
State of _ ,
County of _ , ss:
_ , being: duly sworn, says that beginning: on the _
day of _ , 19 _ , and ending on the _ day of _ , 19 _ , he
surveyed for _ the location of a proposed _
line described as follows: (Here describe the line by termini and length),
and that such survey is accurately represented upon this map and by the
accompanying field notes.
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Surveyor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this _ day of _ , 19 — .
Each sheet of the map must have an application indorsed
thereon in the following form:
(Date) _ _ , 19 _ .
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hereby applies, under the act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1253), and the
regulations thereunder promulgated by the Secretary, United States Depart¬
ment of Agriculture, for a right of way for a _ line,
the location of which is shown hereon.
Applicant.
REG. L-23. The grantee shall, unless otherwise ordered by
the Secretary, pay annually in advance a rental charge of $5
for each mile or fraction thereof of National Forest land
crossed by power-transmission lines.
REG. L-24. If the right of way applied for is for telephone
or telegraph lines, no rentals will be charged, but the ap¬
plicant shall agree to furnish such facilities to forest officers
and to permit such reasonable use of its poles or lines as may
be determined upon between the applicant and the district
forester at the time of filing the application.
REG. L-25. The applicant shall file, together with the ap¬
plication, as required under Regulation L-22, a stipulation
which will be prepared and submitted to him by the district
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forester and which, upon its acceptance by the Secretary of
Agriculture, shall constitute and express the conditions under
which the grant will be made. Such stipulation shall ex¬
pressly bind the applicant:
(A) To construct its lines upon the locations shown upon
the maps submitted with its application and to complete such
construction within two years from the date of the grant of
the right of way.
(B) That except when prevented by unavoidable accidents
or contingencies the grantee will operate in good faith and as
continuously as may be possible under prevailing market
requirements, or users’ demands, the line or lines constructed,
maintained, or operated in whole or in part under grant;
will neither discontinue the operation of said lines nor re¬
duce the amount of power delivered or transmitted over any
transmission line at such a time or in such a manner as to
reduce the amount of electric energy required by the consum¬
ing public, or to increase the market price therefor, or to
discriminate between consumers, or to prejudice the public
interests; and, if there is discontinuance of operation of any
line, or reduction in amount of power transmitted, for a
continuous period of more than thirty (30) days or for an
aggregate period of more than ninety (90) days in any
calendar year, will notify the district forester of the fact of
such discontinuance or reduction and of the reasons therefor.
(C) To pay annually in advance such charges as may be
fixed and required by the Secretary for power-transmission
lines under these regulations.
(D) On demand of the Secretary to install at such places
and maintain in good operating condition in such manner as
shall be approved by the Secretary accurate meters, or other
devices approved by the Secretary, adequate for the de¬
termination of the amount of power delivered over transmis¬
sion lines under grant, or any part thereof; to keep accurate
and sufficient records of the foregoing determinations to the
satisfaction of the Secretary; and to make a return during
January of each year, under oath, of such of the records of
measurements for the year ended on December 31, preceding,
made by or in the possession of the grantee, as may be re¬
quired by the Secretary.
(E) That the books and records of the grantee, in so far as
they contain information concerning the power-transmission
lines under grant, or the power business conducted in con¬
nection therewith, shall be open at all times to the inspection
and examination of the Secretary or other officer or agent
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of the United States duly authorized to make such inspection
and examination.
(F) On demand of the Secretary to maintain a system of
accounting of the entire power business, conducted in con¬
nection with the power-transmission lines under grant, in such
form as the Secretary may prescribe or approve, which system
as far as practicable will be uniform for all grantees, and to
render annually such 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, to the extent that they
furnish the necessary information, as fulfilling the require¬
ments of this clause.
(G) To protect all Government and other telephone, tele¬
graph, and power-transmission lines at crossings of and at
all places in proximity to the grantee’s telephone, telegraph,
and power-transmission lines in a workmanlike manner, ac¬
cording to the usual standards of safety for construction,
operation, and maintenance in such cases; and to maintain the
telephone, telegraph, and power-transmission lines in such a
manner as not to menace life or property.
(H) To clear and keep clear National Forest lands along the
right of way for such width and in such manner as forest
officers may direct.
(I) To dispose to the satisfaction of the forest officers of all
brush, refuse, or unused timber on National Forest lands re¬
sulting from the construction, maintenance, and operation of
its lines under the grant.
(J) To do everything reasonably within the power of the
grantee, and to require its employees, contractors, and em¬
ployees of contractors, both independently and on request of
the forest officers, or other agents of the United States, to
prevent and suppress fires on or near the lands occupied.
(K) To pay the full value as fixed by the district forester
for all timber cut, injured, or destroyed on National Forest
lands in the construction, maintenance, and operation of the
lines under grant.
(L) 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 grantee
can furnish the same to the United States without diminish-
L ing the quantity of power sold before such request to any
other customer by a binding contract of sale: Provided, That
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nothing in this clause shall be construed to require the grantee
to increase permanent works or install additional generating
machinery.
(M) To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service
rendered and to be rendered by the grantee, whether in re¬
spect to the furnishing or transmitting of power or to the
transmitting of communications by telephone or telegraph,
and of rates of payment therefor, as may from time to time
be prescribed by the State or by any duly constituted agency
of the State in which the service is rendered; but if such regu¬
lation with respect to the furnishing or transmitting of power
is not exercised by the State, or by any duly constituted
agency thereof, that the Secretary may upon the filing with
him of formal complaint by the State, by a municipality, or by
not less than twenty-five (25) customers or prospective cus¬
tomers of the grantee cause an inquiry to be made concerning
the service or rate of payment complained of; and if it shall
appear upon such inquiry that the service or the rate of pay¬
ment complained of is unreasonable, the Secretary may fix
the character of the service and may name the rate of pay¬
ment which shall be rendered or charged.
(N) That the lines to be constructed, maintained, and oper¬
ated under the grant shall not be owned, leased, trusteed, pos¬
sessed, or controlled by any device or in any manner so that
they form part of or in any way effect any combination in the
form of an unlawful trust, or form the subject of any unlaw¬
ful contract or conspiracy to limit the output of electric
energy, or are in unlawful restraint of trade with foreign
nations, or between two or more States, or within any one
State, in the generation, sale, or distribution of electric
energy or in the transmission of communications by telephone
or telegraph.
(O) That in respect to the regulation by any competent
public authority pf the service to be rendered by the grantee
or of the price to be charged therefor, and in respect to any
purchase or taking over of the works or business of the
grantee, or any part thereof, by the United States or by any
State within which the works are situated or business carried
on, or by any municipal corporation of such State, no value
whatsoever shall at any time be assigned to or claimed for
the right of way granted, nor shall such right of way or grant
ever be estimated or considered as property upon which the
grantee shall be entitled to earn or receive any return, in¬
come, price, or compensation whatsoever.
REG. L-26. The grantee shall not assign or transfer to any
other person or corporation whatsoever the right of way
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granted, except With the approval in writing first obtained
from the Secretary of Agriculture, or other proper officer of
the United States, and upon terms and conditions prescribed
in said written approval by said Secretary or other officer.
The assignee or transferee under any such approval shall
take and use the right of way subject to all terms and condi¬
tions in these regulations, together with the original approved
application and grant set forth, and subject to such additional
terms and conditions as may be provided by such written
approval of the transfer.
REG. L-27. During the progress of construction amend¬
ments to maps of location will be required from the grantee,
if there is material deviation from the maps as originally
filed, but no deviation or amendment will be allowed which
will interfere with the occupancy and use of National Forest
lands under existing permits or grants under any of the right-
of-way acts of the United States. If after the completion of
construction there are any deviations in location from those
shown upon the original maps or approved amendments
thereof, additional maps prepared in the manner prescribed
for original maps of location must be filed within six months
after the completion of construction. Such maps shall show
the extent of such deviation and the final location of the tele¬
phone, telegraph, or power-transmission lines as constructed
under the authority of the grant.
REG. L-28. Grants of rights of way will be effective from
the date on which the Secretary of Agriculture writes upon
the face of the maps his approval thereof.
REG. L-29. Upon breach by the grantee of any of the terms
or conditions set forth in these regulations, or in the approved
application, or in the grant, the United States may enforce
appropriate remedy therefor by suit for specific performance,
injunction, action for damages, or otherwise. And if any such
breach shall be continued or repeated after 30 days’ notice
thereof given in behalf of the United States to the grantee,
the right of way granted, together with all rights thereunder
and all rental charges and other moneys paid thereon, may be
forfeited to the United States by a suit for that purpose in
any court of competent jurisdiction.
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INSTRUCTIONS.
APPLICATIONS UNDER ACT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1901 (31 ST AT., 790).
General Statement.
By the act of February 15, 1901, the Secretary of the In¬
terior is authorized, under general regulations to be fixed by
him, to permit the use of rights of way through the public lands,
forests, and other reservations and certain national parks of
the United States for conduits, reservoirs, power plants, tele¬
phone and telegraph lines, to be used for irrigation, mining,
domestic purposes, etc., and for the production and transmission
of electrical powTer. The right of way, to which permission to
use is given, is restricted to the extent of the ground actually
occupied by such plants, conduits, etc., and not to exceed 50
feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, or 50 feet on
each side of the center lines of conduits or pole lines. The
statute does not make a grant in the nature of an easement,
but gives a permission or license, revocable at any time for
breach of conditions.
By the act of February 1, 1905, the Secretary of Agriculture
is vested with jurisdiction to pass upon all applications under the
act of February 15, 1901, for permission to occupy and use
National Forest lands.
Permission may be granted under the statute for rights of
way through unsurveyed as well as surveyed lands.
Every proper inducement is given for the utilization of power
sites within the National Forests. Neither now nor in the past
have they been reserved from use. To aid legitimate develop¬
ment and to protect the public welfare, public lands of the
United States chiefly valuable for water power are from time
to time withdrawn by the President from settlement, location,
sale, or entry and are reserved for power purposes. By such
withdrawals not only is the land retained in Government owner¬
ship, but the developer is protected against other and perhaps
subsequent claimants to the land. A modification of the power-
site reserve may be secured wherever a power permit is ap¬
plied for in accordance with the regulations.
(36)
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To protect the interests of the public, and to prevent specu¬
lative holding of power sites by those who do not intend or are
unable to develop, provision is made for the payment of a rental
charge under the preliminary and final power permits (except
under certain special conditions) and definite periods are speci¬
fied for the filing of the final application, beginning of construc¬
tion and of operation. It is the practice to allow as much
time as is requested by the applicant, except when it is evident
that the periods are of unnecessary length or shorter periods
should be given in order to properly protect the • interests of
the public. The rental charges are nominal in amount, the
maximum under the most extreme conditions being about one-
sixteenth of a cent per kilowatt hour. On the average the
charge per kilowatt hour is much less than that amount on
account of deductions allowed for nonforest land and because
in many instances the site is actually developed far beyond the
power capacity upon which the charges are based. By pro¬
viding a sliding scale of rates during the first 10 years of op¬
eration it is recognized that, except in unusual cases, several
years are required before the maximum capacity of the plant
can be marketed. (See Regs. L-7, L-8, and L-14 (B) and
(C).) A rental is also charged for transmission rights of way
based upon the length of National Forest land crossed by the
transmission line.
In order that the interests of the consumers of the power
may be protected, the power permittee is required to abide by
reasonable regulation of rates and of service by either the-
State or, if the State does not exercise such regulation, by the
Secretary. (See Reg. L-14 (R).)
The lands of the United States and permanent structures-
thereon are not subject to condemnation without authority of
Congress, which authority has not been given. The procedure
mentioned in Regulation L-14 (S) has therefore been provided
in order that a State or municipality desiring to take over
certain water-power properties on the National Forests may do
so with the same facility and for the same purposes that such
properties could be acquired if located wholly on private lands.
The procedure which has been provided leaves the interests of
the United States intact, while fully protecting the legitimate
interests of the permittee and the transferee. In the stipula¬
tion the permittee contracts to surrender the permit, together
with such part of the works dependent in whole or in part
upon the continuance of the permit as has been determined
upon by prior agreement. Such surrender will only be required
v under the limiting conditions described in Regulation L-14 (S).
In return the permittee receives the reasonable value of all
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tangible property plus a bonus varying according to the length
of the unexpired term of the permit. This bonus has been
added in order that the property of a permittee may not be
taken away before he has had an opportunity to earn the ex¬
pected returns, except upon the receipt of compensation in
addition to the cost of the properties. The bonus amounts to
about 35 per cent of the cost of such properties if taken over
upon completion of construction. The reasonable value is to
be determined by mutual agreement, if possible; if not, by a
board of arbitration of three members. The latter method
of valuation has been provided because, in the absence of spe¬
cific authorization by Congress, jurisdiction in such proceedings
can not be conferred upon the courts.
An important function of the Federal Government in water¬
power regulation is the prevention of capitalization of the
permit and of the occupancy and use of the public domain.
This is accomplished by Regulation L-14 (T).
Under the present regulations four forms of permit are
granted: (1) Final permits for water-power projects of 100
horsepower total capacity or less (computed in accordance
with Regulation L-7) ; (2) final permits for transmission lines
only; (3) final permits for power projects of more than 100
horsepower total capacity; and (4) preliminary permits for
projects of more than 100 horsepower total capacity. (See
Reg. L— 1. )
Preliminary permits are issued to protect an applicant’s
priority against subsequent applicants until he has had an
opportunity to study the proper location and design of the
project and obtain the data necessary to the final application.
Operation is allowed under final permit only. Except where it
can be clearly shown that construction upon National Forest land
is necessary in order to preserve the applicant’s water appro¬
priation, no construction of the project works will be allowed
under preliminary permit.
If the applicant has determined the approximate final location
and design of the project works, and has obtained the data
specified in Regulation L-ll, he should apply for a final permit.
If such is not the case, he may apply either for a preliminary
permit for a time sufficient for making the final application,
or he may proceed without permit to get the necessary infor¬
mation.
No permit is required for traveling, camping, or surveying
within the National Forests. Gamp wood and forage for neces¬
sary stock may be taken without permit. Unnecessary cutting
is prohibited.
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In Regulations ]u- 9 to Lr-12 are given the requirements for
the four forms of permits granted under the act. The applica¬
tions for projects of 100 horsepower total capacity or less and
for transmission lines are very simple in character ; practically
all the required data are necessary for determining the true
location of the project or line and for the protection of the
permittees against reapplication for the land by others. In
applying for a preliminary power permit, there is required only
a sketch map of location and certain other information indi¬
cating the project which the applicant has in mind, together
with data of run-off when such data have been obtained and are
accessible to the applicant ; only when permission is requested
to construct under the preliminary permit is evidence of water
appropriation required. The final application for projects of
more than 100 horsepower total capacity is more detailed in
character. It is not the intention, however, to require any data
that are not necessary and are not customarily obtained before
beginning construction. Experience has shown that, except in
unusual cases, applicants who really intend construction obtain
not only the data mentioned in Regulation L-ll, but much
more.
If any national forest land is desired, the application should
conform to the regulations in all respects. If in addition the
proposed project includes lands of the United States outside of the
National Forests, as well as those within, the regulations of the
Department of the Interior require that applicants shall also
submit to the local land office in the land district in which such
lands are situated such maps and papers and copies thereof as
are required by the regulations of that department. If the
project will include lands of the United States wholly outside
the National Forest, applications should be made to the local land
office of the land district in which the lands are situated, in
accordance with the regulations of the Department of the
Interior.
All applications for National Forest land under the act of
February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), for power projects and trans¬
mission lines should be filed with the district forester of the
Forest Service district in which the lands are situated, with the
exception of projects in Alaska, which may be filed either with
the forest supervisor of the Forest in which the lands are situ¬
ated or with the district forester at Portland, Oreg.
An application filed in error with the forester, supervisor, or
ranger will be forwarded to the district forester concerned ; but
with the exception of projects in Alaska, no priority will be
v obtained until the complete application is received by the
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district forester. An applicant for National Forest land in
Alaska will obtain a priority by filing a complete application
with the district forester or with the forest supervisor of the
Forest in which the lands are situated.
Permits granted under the act may not be transferred except
by following the procedure specified in Regulation L-17.
Inquiries regarding the meaning of the regulations should be
made of the district forester.
Preliminary Applications and Permits for Power Projects of More Than 100
Horsepower Total Capacity.
Preliminary permits will be granted, amended, extended, or
renewed by the Secretary only. Applications will be accepted
and rejected (subject to appeal) by the district forester.
Preliminary permits for power projects are granted in order
to maintain a priority right for the applicant during a time
sufficient for the preparation of the maps, plans, and other data
required to be filed with the application for a final permit. It
is not necessary in order to obtain a final permit for a proposed
developer to obtain a preliminary permit, but the final permit
may be applied for directly. (Reg. L-l.)
The preliminary permit will be granted for a definite, limited
period, which wall vary according to the circumstances of the
particular case, and will be only long enough to give a reason¬
able time for the preparation of the final application as pre¬
scribed in Regulation L-ll. In general, the term of the pre¬
liminary permit will vary from six months to one year, but a
longer period may be allowed if the circumstances warrant and
the necessity for the longer period is clearly shown.
It is not the intention that construction work on the project
shall be carried on during the preliminary permit, and a suffi¬
cient allowance will be made in the final permit for the time
necessary to financing the project and to the carrying on of
work preliminary to the beginning of actual construction.
Whenever the time prescribed by the State statutes within
which construction must begin in order to maintain water
rights is insufficient to enable the applicant to prepare a final
application before beginning construction, a clause may be in¬
serted in the preliminary permit allowing such construction to
proceed as is necessary to permit compliance with the State
law ; but in general such permission will be given only when
there are no private lands within the project upon which such
construction may proceed.
Regulation L-2 provides that applications will be filed with
the district forester of the Forest Service district in which such
lands are situated, or may also be filed with the forest super
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visor if the projects are located in the Alaskan Forests. The
application will be prepared in accordance with Regulations
L-10 and L-9, and will consist of a tracing, the application in
triplicate on Form 58, three copies of certain estimates and
data, and, when permission to prosecute construction under the
permit is requested, evidence of the applicant’s right to all the
water needed for the project.
By filing an application which complies in all respects with
the regulations a priority right for a final permit is obtained,
provided the land applied for is not already covered by a prior
application, valid claim, or permit. Successive preliminary per¬
mits may be issued for the same site, but each such permit will
be subordinate to all outstanding prior preliminary and final
permits, and no final application will be accepted until after loss
of priority by all prior permittees. (Reg. Lr-4.)
Except under the conditions noted below, an annual charge
based on the rental capacity of the site will be made during
the term of the preliminary permit. No rental will be charged
for transmission lines included in the preliminary permit for
municipal use, for irrigation, or for logging operations in con¬
nection with purchases of National Forest timber; but no free
use will be allowed unless the applicant files a satisfactory
showing that he is entitled to such privilege. No free permit
for logging operations will be granted unless the timber-sale
contract has been awarded to the power applicant. (See Reg.
L-8.)
After the application has been investigated by the district
forester the applicant will be requested to make payment of
the first year’s rental charge, and will be allowed a stated
period for making this payment. No preliminary permit will
be granted until the applicant has made this deposit. Failure
to make payment as requested by the district forester will
result in loss of priority. (Reg. L-3.)
Priority will also be lost if the rental payment is not made
as prescribed in Regulation L-8, if the permit is revoked, or
if the final application is not filed within the time specified in
the prelminary permit.
No extension of time for the filing of the final application
will be granted except upon the written approval of the Secre¬
tary of Agriculture, after a satisfactory showing by the per¬
mittee of the reasons for such extension and after a report has
been submitted by the district forester. (Reg. L-3.)
If the application is rejected, the applicant will be given a
definite period by the district forester in which to appeal. If
• such appeal is not made, the case will be closed at the end of
the allotted time. (Reg. L-4.)
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The permit will terminate and be void without revocation at
the expiration of the preliminary permit or on failure to make
the annual rental payment, unless extensions have been granted
by the Secretary.
If for any reason priority is lost, the applicant or permittee,
or the successor thereto, will not be allowed to file any applica¬
tion for the same ground and for a like use within the period
of one year after such loss of priority.
Final Applications and Permits for Projects of More Than 100 Horsepower
Total Capacity.
Final applications will be accepted and, subject to appeal,
rejected by the district forester. The Secretary alone will
grant, amend, extend, renew, and revoke final power permits.
By a final permit, occupancy and use of National Forest land is
allowed. In general a permit of 50 years’ duration is given,
but a shorter period may be granted in special cases. In cer¬
tain special cases an indeterminate permit may be granted by
the Secretary, which will be subject to the right of the United
States, State, or municipality to purchase in the manner speci¬
fied by Regulation L-14 (S). This may be terminated for
breach of conditions (Reg. L-19) or in accordance with ex¬
isting law. It will provide for periodic adjustment of its terms.
The application should be prepared in accordance with Regu¬
lations L-9 and L-ll and should be filed with the district
forester, or if the project is on National Forest land in Alaska,
it may be filed with the forest supervisor. No priority will be
initiated or maintained until every map or paper required by
the two regulations has been filed in the manner prescribed.
Mere sketches of structures will not be accepted as fulfilling
the requirements of Regulation L-ll (E) , 1 (c) and 2(b). These
should be actual dimension plans of structures designed for
construction at the location proposed. A certain definite date
is set in the stipulation before which actual construction of the
project works must be commenced, therefore the time requested
under Paragraph I of Regulation L-ll should be sufficient for
making necessary financial arrangements and for completing
such preliminary construction work (trails, roads, etc.) as must
be done before actual construction of the project works can be
commenced. ( See Regs. L-7 and L-14. ) If, in constructing the
project material deviations are made from the plan as filed,
new maps and plans must be filed and approved. (Reg. Lr-15.)
If the applicant for a final permit holds a preliminary permit
for the same lands, which permit has an earlier priority than
any other permit, and makes a complete final application before
the expiration of the preliminary permit, the priority date
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secured by the preliminary application is maintained under tlie
final application.
The lines shown on the maps accompanying the final applica¬
tion will not be required to follow without change the lines as
shown on the map accompanying the preliminary application,
and the position and arrangement of conduits and power houses,
as shown upon the map accompanying the preliminary applica¬
tion, may be changed if the detailed surveys preceding the final
application show such change to be desirable ; but priority from
the date of filing of the preliminary application will be allowed
for only so much of the projects shown in the application for
final power permit as is within the approximate limits of diver¬
sion and discharge, as shown in the application for the pre¬
liminary power permit. (Reg. L-3.) An application for a final
permit will not be accepted unless it complies with Regulations
L-9 and L-ll, or if the land applied for is held by a prior pre¬
liminary or final applicant or permittee. (See Regs. L-3 and
L-4. )
To maintain a priority established by a final application, the
stipulation must be filed (Reg. L-13) and the rental charges
paid before the date specified by the district forester. Priority
will be lost if the permit is revoked. After loss of priority no
application will be received from the permittee or his successor
for the same lands for a like use for the period of one year.
(See Reg. Lr-3.) No credits will be given for deposits of rentals
made under preliminary or final permit until operation of the
project works has been commenced. No credit will be given for
payments made under preliminary permits if the final permit
is issued to other than the preliminary permittee. The rate at
which the first payment under the final permit shall be levied
will be 10 cents per horsepower per year if no preliminary
permit for the same lands has been held by the final permittee.
If the final permit succeeds a preliminary permit, the advanc¬
ing scale of the preliminary permit will continue in effect until
the beginning of operation under the final permit.
No rental charge will be made for primary transmission lines
which are a part of a general power project included in the
final power permit, or for any transmission, distribution, or
service line which is used for municipal purposes, for irrigation,
or for logging operations in connection with Forest Service
timber sales. If the plant under permit is not to be used ex¬
clusively for one or more of the purposes named, the full sched¬
ule rental charge for any calendar year will be collected prior
to the beginning of operations, and the proper credits given
v after operation begins. (See Reg. L-8.)
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If the application is rejected, either on account of prior rights
to the same ground or because inconsistent with the public
interest (Reg. L-4), or for any other reason that appears good
and sufficient, the applicant or preliminary permittee will be
allowed a definite period by the district forester in which to
appeal. If the appeal is not filed within the given period, the
case will be closed.
The permit may be revoked because of loss of water rights
or of permission to engage in the power business, as outlined in
Regulation L-5.
The permit itself is not transferable, but the permission to
occupy National Forest lands may be transferred under the con¬
ditions outlined in Regulation L-17. Prior to purchase or
transfer of property under permit, the proposed successor
should inquire of the district forester regarding any new and
additional conditions that may be embodied in the new stipula¬
tion and permit.
No part of a power project under permit may be abandoned
and the remainder retained except upon permission of the Sec¬
retary and fulfillment of all obligations.
No final permit will be terminated except upon formal revo¬
cation by the Secretary, and then only after a reasonable time
has been allowed the permittee to show cause why such revoca¬
tion should not be made.
Final Applications and Permits for Projects of 100 Horsepower Total
Capacity or Less.
Permits for the occupancy and use of power sites having a
total capacity of 100 horsepower or less may be granted,
amended, extended, and renewed by the district forester. The
Secretary alone may revoke. (Reg. L-l.) No rental charge
will be made for such permits.
With the exception of the projects in the National Forests of
Alaska, applications will be filed with the district forester and
must conform to the requirements of Regulation L-12. Applica¬
tion for Alaskan projects may be filed either with the district
forester or with the supervisor of the Forest within which the
project will be located.
The data upon which priority of application is established is
that upon which the last map or paper necessary to constitute
a complete application as specified in the regulations is filed
as above directed, provided there are no prior rights to the
desired land.
If the application for a permit, or for an extension or amend¬
ment thereof is denied by the district forester, sufficient oppor- t,
tunity for appeal should be given the applicant.
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The permits are of indeterminate length and are subject to
revocation by the Secretary upon breach of conditions. (Reg.
L-19.) No revocation will be made until the permittee has had
ample opportunity to show why such action should not be taken.
The permits are not transferable. But in event of change of
ownership of the properties on the National Forest land permis¬
sion to occupy such land may be transferred in accordance with
the instructions in Regulation L-17.
This form of permit is issued on the understanding that the
total capacity of the site, computed in accordance with Regu¬
lation L-7, does not exceed 100 horsepower. Therefore, as one
of the conditions of the permit, it will be provided that in
event that the total capacity, by reason of amendments or
changes in the plans, due to a greater available flow than the
amount estimated at the time of granting the permit, or for
any other reason, is found to exceed 100 horsepower, the per¬
mittee agrees to make application under Regulation L-ll
for a new permit and to relinquish the free permit.
Such other clauses of Regulation L-14 will be inserted on the
Form 832, on which the permit is written, as are necessary and
applicable to the case.
Transmission-Line Applications and Permits.
Permits for transmission lines will be granted, amended, ex¬
tended, and renewed (1) by the Secretary when such permit is
supplemental to an existing permit for a power site of a total
capacity exceeding 100 horsepower; (2) by the district forester
when the line is to be used in connection with a power site
(whether under permit or not) of a total capacity not exceeding
100 horsepower or when the connected load upon the line will
not exceed 100 horsepower; (3) in all other cases by the For¬
ester. The Secretary alone may revoke permits, and no revoca¬
tion will be made without giving the permittee opportunity to
advance reasons showing why such action should not be taken.
The transmission-line application may be included in the
preliminary application for a power project of more than 100
horsepower. Otherwise only final applications will be accepted.
Unless the transmission line is made a part of or supple¬
mental to a final permit previously issued, the transmission¬
line permit will terminate at the expiration of 50 years from
the date of issuance of the permit, unless otherwise stated in
the permit. However, such permit will give the holder a prior
right to apply for a new permit, provided not less than 2 nor
more than 12 years before the expiration of the 50 years he
v indicates that such new permit is desired. (See Reg. L^-6.)
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In tlie permit definite periods will be provided for the begin¬
ning and completion of construction and for the beginning of
operation. No construction will be allowed prior to the grant¬
ing of the permit.
The application for a transmission-line permit should be filed
with the district forester (or with the forest supervisor if the
land is in Alaska). If it is to be used in connection with a
power plant exceeding 100 horsepower in total capacity, it will
be prepared in accordance with Regulation L-ll and Regulation
L-9 and will consist of an application in triplicate on Form 60 ;
maps of location of the size and scale specified in and prepared
in accordance with Regulation L-ll (E) (4), together with the
key map or the transmission-line system described in Regula¬
tion L-ll (E) (5) ; copies of field notes in triplicate, as pro¬
vided in Regulation L-ll (F) a statement of the time required
for the beginning and completion of construction ; the engineer’s
affidavit and applicant’s certificate; a certified copy of the ar¬
ticles of incorporation or of association (if not already filed),
and if the applicant be a company a list of the officers and
directors, and if the company is to operate in a State other than
that in wffiicli incorporated a certificate as specified in Regula¬
tion L-9 (B) (unless such papers are already on file).
If the total capacity of the power site to which the line is to
be connected, or if the connected load upon the line is 100
horsepower or less, the application may be prepared in accord¬
ance with Regulations L-12 and L-9. Unless otherwise di¬
rected by the district forester such application will consist of
(1) a tracing showing the location of the transmission line
within Forest boundaries, (2) field notes of the survey in
triplicate, (3) an application in triplicate on Form 60, (4) the
papers required by Regulation L-9.
No rental charge wfill be made for transmission lines when
part .of a power project of less than 100 horsepower or when
they are to be used for municipal purposes or for irrigation or
in connection with a timber sale or temporarily in the construc¬
tion of other works under permit or for primary transmission
lines wffien part of a powder project under permit. In all other
cases, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary, a rental charge
will be made of $5 per annum for each mile of line or fraction
thereof of National Forest land crossed by the line. (See
Reg. L— S. )
To maintain a priority established by the application, the
stipulation must be filed and the rental charges paid before the
date specified by the district forester. Priority will be lost if
the permit is revoked.
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Except when the line is to be made a part of an existing
permit, the date of priority will be that upon which the last
map or paper necessary to constitute a complete application as
specified in the regulations is filed as directed, provided there
are no prior rights to the desired land.
After the rejection of an application for a permit or for an
amendment or extension thereof opportunity will be given the
applicant to appeal, but if such appeal is not filed within the
time allowed by the district forester the decision will be final.
The permits are not transferable. In event of change of
ownership the instructions in Regulation L-17 should be fol-
low’ed. if a right to use the land is desired by the successor in
interest.
APPLICATIONS UNDER ACT OF MARCH 4, 1911 (36 STAT., 1253).
Telephone, Telegraph, and Power-Transmission Lines.
By the act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1253), the Secretary
having jurisdiction over the land is authorized, under general
regulations to be fixed by him, to grant an easement for rights
of way for a period not exceeding 50 years from the date of
issuance of the grant over public lands, National Forests, and
reservations for poles and lines for telephone, telegraph, and
electric-power transmission. The right of way is restricted to
a strip 20 feet on each side of the center line. It is also pro¬
vided that if any or all parts of the right of way covered by the
grant is abandoned or is not used for a period of two years, the
Secretary may declare the right forfeited.
Applications under this act should be filed with the district
forester of the Forest Service district in which the desired
lands are situated, with the exception that if the project is
located in Alaska application may be filed with the forest super¬
visor. If the desired right of way includes public lands under
the jurisdiction of the Interior Department as well as National
Forest lands, the regulations of the Department of the Interior
require that a separate application in accordance with the regu¬
lations of that department be filed with the local land office of
the land district in which such lands are situated.
Applications filed in error with the Forester, supervisor, or
ranger will be forwarded to the district forester concerned.
With the exception of projects in Alaska, no priority will be
obtained until the complete application is received by the dis¬
trict forester. An applicant for National Forest land in
Alaska will obtain a priority by filing a complete application
1 with either the district forester or the forest supervisor.
7528°— 15 - 4
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While the maximum length of the grant is limited to 50
years, shorter periods may be given.
The application should conform to the requirements of Regu¬
lations L^ll and Lr-9, as amended by Regulation L-22 to include
two tracings and an engineer’s affidavit and applicant’s certifi¬
cate on each tracing. The maps of location will be prepared as
outlined in Regulation L-ll (E) (4) and the general directions
of the regulation, and when the entire line can not be shown
on a single sheet will also include the index map described in
Regulation L-ll (E) (5).
Unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary, a rental will be
charged for National Forest land crossed by power-transmission
lines. This will be paid prior to the granting of the right of
way, but will cover the period of one year subsequent to the
date of granting the easement. The annual payment will be $5
for each mile of National Forest land crossed by the line and $5
for each fraction of a mile.
No rental 'will be charged for the telegraph and telephone
rights of way, but certain conditions to the grant, specified in
Regulation L-24, may be made.
Prior to the issuance of the grant the applicant will sign a
stipulation which will be presented to him by the district
forester, and which will in general conform to Regulation L-25.
No construction work will be allowed until after the issuance
of the grant. A definite period will be stipulated for the com¬
pletion of construction.
Although the Secretary by the terms of the act may declare
the grant forfeited if the rights of way are abandoned or not
used for a period of two years, forfeiture for failure to comply
with the terms of the grant requires judicial proceedings.
FORMS.
Form 58. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by district forester.]
Application for Preliminary Power Permit.
*
— — — - — - - — — — - - - - *
a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the
laws of tbe State of _
and having its office and principal place of business at _ ,
in the State of _
*
- 9 - -
_ citizen _ of the United States and _ resident _ of the
State of _ ,
do _ hereby make application for a preliminary power permit
for _ months, covering certain lands of the United
States within the _ National Forest in the
State of _ , as such lands are approximately
shown upon a certain map executed by _ , on
the _ day of _ , 191 _ , which map is filed herewith
and made a part hereof. This application is made in order that
the applicant _ may, upon the filing of a complete and final
application, in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary
of Agriculture, secure a priority for said final application from
the date of the filing of this preliminary application.
(Space for insertion of request for construction work if necessary to
maintain water rights.)
In witness whereof, the applicant _ ha _ caused this instru¬
ment to be executed this _ day of _ , 191__.
[seal of corporation.]
Attest :
- 9
Secretary.
5.
* Use lines 1—5 or 6-8. Cancel lines not used.
(49)
50
When an application is made by an individual or an association of
individuals, the following oath, serving as an affidavit of citizenship,
will be taken.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this _ day of _ ,
191__.
[SEAL.] _ _ ,
Notary Public.
Note. — This form is to be used by the applicant in making applica¬
tion for a preliminary permit. Copies may be obtained upon appli¬
cation to the district forester at Missoula, Mont. ; Denver, Colo. ; Al¬
buquerque, N. Mex. ; Ogden, Utah ; San Francisco, Cal. ; Portland,
Oreg. ; Washington, D. C. ; or the forest supervisor at Ketchikan,
Alaska. After the blanks have been filled in, three copies should be
filed as a part of the application. (Reg. L-10.)
Form 59. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by district forester.]
Preliminary Power Permit.
Whereas, in accordance with the regulations issued under the
act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), by the Secretary of
Agriculture (hereinafter called the “Secretary”) _
(hereinafter called the “permittee”), filed with the district
forester at _ on the _ day of _ ,
191 _ , an application for a preliminary power permit, covering
certain lands of the United States within the _
National Forest in the State of _ , as such
lands are approximately shown upon a certain map contained
in said application ; and
Whereas, the permittee has paid the rental charges required
by the aforesaid regulations as a condition precedent to the
issuance of this permit :
Now, therefore, the permittee is granted, subject to the pro¬
visions hereinafter set forth, priority for an application for a
final power permit authorizing the occupancy and use of the
aforesaid lands of the United States as more particularly de¬
scribed and shown upon a certain map executed by _
_ on the _ day of _ , 191 _ , which said map
is hereby made a part of this permit, and the construction,
maintenance, and operation thereon for the development, trans¬
mission, and, or, distribution of power, of _
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reservoirs, _ water conduits, _
_ power-house sites, and _ transmis¬
sion lines, all to be located approximately as shown on the
aforesaid map.
Article 1. If the permittee shall, on or before the _ day of
_ , 191 _ , file with the district forester at _
_ , in the manner prescribed by the regulations of the
Secretary, a complete application for a final power permit
(hereinafter called the “final application”), covering the lands
under this permit, then and thereupon the priority initiated by
the application for this permit (hereinafter called the “pre¬
liminary application”) shall be maintained by said final appli¬
cation and shall relate back and be effective as of the date of
the preliminary application : Provided, however, That such
priority shall be maintained only in so far as the project or
projects shown in said final application are within the approxi¬
mate limits of diversion and discharge as shown in the prelimi¬
nary application ; and if in said final application the permittee
shall include National Forest lands which comprehend develop¬
ments not included in the preliminary application, the priority
of application for such additional lands shall date only from the
date of the filing of said final application : And provided fur¬
ther, That the said final power permit will be issued only if it
appears that the proposed occupancy and use will be in general
accord with the most beneficial utilization of the resources in¬
volved and consistent with the public interest; and that no
final power permit will be issued if the works to be constructed
thereunder will unreasonably interfere with the construction or
operation of works authorized by existing final power permits,
or for the construction of works within an area covered by a
prior preliminary permit until after the filing of final applica¬
tion or the loss of priority by the prior preliminary permittee.
Art. 2. The priority granted and maintained by this permit
will be lost if the final application is not filed upon the date
specified in article 1 hereof, unless additional time shall have
been allowed by the written authority of the Secretary upon a
showing by the permittee, filed with the district forester prior
to said date, that the filing of said final application has been
prevented by unusual climatic conditions that could not reason¬
ably have been foreseen or by some special or peculiar cause
beyond the control of the permittee.
Art. 3. The permittee shall pay annually in advance from the
1st day of January, 191 _ , until the date of the granting of the
aforesaid final permit, to the _ national
i bank of _ (United States depository), or
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such other Government depository or officer as may hereafter be
legally designated, to be placed to the credit of the United
States, a charge for the priority rights granted under this
permit, which charge shall be calculated from the “ rental
capacity of the power site,” as defined in the regulations of the
Secretary and as estimated at the time of granting this permit,
at a rate which shall be ten (10) cents per horsepower per year
for the first full calendar year under this permit, and which
shall increase by ten (10) cents per horsepower per year for
each year thereafter until the date of the granting of final
permit as aforesaid.
Akt. 4. If any part of the aforesaid charge, payable as pro¬
vided in article 3 hereof, shall, after due notice has been given,
be in arrears for sixty (60) days, then and thereupon the
priority maintained by this permit shall be lost and this permit
shall terminate and be void without revocation by the Secretary.
Art. 5. If, upon the filing of the said final application, a final
power permit is granted by the Secretary to the permittee to
occupy and use the aforesaid lands for the construction, mainte¬
nance, and, or, operation of the aforesaid works, and in ac¬
cordance wTith the provisions of such final power permit the
permittee completes the construction and begins the operation
of the aforesaid works, all payments made In consideration of
this permit will be credited to the permittee and be applied to
the payment of charges due, or to become due after such begin¬
ning of operation, under such final power permit : Provided, how¬
ever, That if such final application provides for only a partial
development of the power project or projects, as outlined in
the preliminary application for, and as protected by, this per¬
mit, then only such proportional part of the aforesaid payments
will be credited to the permittee as the amount of development
provided for in said final application bears to the amount of
development indicated in the preliminary application. If, how¬
ever, after the filing of the final application in the form and
manner prescribed in the regulations of the Secretary, the Secre¬
tary does not grant a final power permit to the permittee, all
payments made in consideration of this permit will be returned
to the permittee.
Art. 6. If the priority maintained by this permit is lost,
either in the manner specified in articles 2 or 4 hereof, or by
revocation of this permit, no other application, either pre¬
liminary or final, for a like use (except for transmission lines),
covering in whole or in part the lands under this permit or
adjacent lands, will be accepted from the permittee until the
expiration of one year after such loss of priority; and this
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restriction shall extend to transferees of the permittee and,
if the permittee is a corporation, to reincorporations represent¬
ing the same or associated interests, whenever in the judgment
of the Secretary a transfer or reincorporation has been effected
for the purpose or with the result of escaping the restriction of
this article, it being the intent of such restriction to leave open
to other applicants for a period of one year power sites upon
which priorities have lapsed as herein provided.
Art. 7.* * This permit shall give no right to begin construction
of any kind or to cut or destroy any timber upon National Forest
lands, except such as may be necessary in the prosecution of
examinations or surveys.
Art. 7.* The permittee is hereby authorized to begin the con¬
struction of the following works:
Art. 8.* This permit is subject to a _
power permit granted to _ on the _ day
of _ _ 19 _ , and having a priority date of _ ,
19 _ ; also to _
Art. 9. This permit is nontransferable and is subject to all
prior valid claims.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my name this _ _
day of _ , 19—
Secretary of Agriculture.
Note. — This form will not be used by the applicant. After being
executed by the Secretary, the preliminary power permit in complete
form will be forwarded to the applicant.
* Cancel clauses not used.
Form GO. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by district forester.]
Application for Final Power Permit.
*
- 9
a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of _ _
and having its office and principal place of business at _ ,
in the State of _ _ _
54
*
— — — * — — — — - — — — — - *
_ citizen _ of the United States and _ resident _ of the
State of _
do _ hereby make application for a final power permit au¬
thorizing the occupancy and use of certains lands of the United
States within the _ National Forest in the
State of _ , and the construction, mainte¬
nance, and, or, operation thereon for the development, trans¬
mission, and distribution of power the following project works :
(Cancel such of the four following items (a), (b), (c), and (d) as may
not be applicable.)
(a) -
(Masonry, earth, etc., diverting or storage.)
dams approximately _ feet in maximum
height and approximately _ feet in maxi¬
mum length, to form _ reservoirs to flood
approximately _ acres at spillway level,
respectively (t), in section _
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ acres are National Forest land, said dams and
said reservoirs being designated, respectively, as follows:
(&) _ water conduits approximately _
_ miles in length, respectively,* crossing sections
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ _ miles will cross National Forest land, said water
conduits being designated, respectively, as follows -
(c) _ power houses and appurtenant struc¬
tures to occupy approximately _ acres, respec¬
tively,! in section _
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ acres are National Forest land, said power houses
being designated, respectively, as follows _
* Use lines 1-5 or 6—8. Cancel lines not used.
t If surveyed, describe by section, township, and range. If unsur¬
veyed, substitute in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and ( d ) the following:
“ located on certain lands described and shown by the maps and field
notes accompanying the application filed with the district forester
on the _ day of - , 191 — ”
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( d ) _ transmission lines _
miles in length, respectively,* crossing sections _
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ miles will cross National Forest land, said trans¬
mission lines being designated as follows _
All as approximately shown upon certain maps and plans sub¬
scribed and sworn to by _ _
on the _ day of _ , 191 _ , which maps and plans are
filed together herewith and designated as follows _
(Designate each
original map or plan as “ Exhibit A,” “ Exhibit B,” etc., following each
such designation by the title of the map or plan, as “ Exhibit A, Map
of Location of, etc.,” “ Exhibit _ Plan of, etc.”)
which maps and plans, together with certain field notes, esti¬
mates, and data, evidence of water rights, articles of incorpora¬
tion, etc., designated, respectively, as “ Exhibit _ ,” “ Exhibit
_ ,” _ are hereby made a part of this
application.
This application is made in order that the applicant _ may
obtain the benefits of the act of Congress approved February
15. 1901 (31 Stat., 790) ; and the use and occupancy of National
Forest lands for which this application is made is desired in
order to construct, maintain, and, or, operate thereon the afore¬
said project works for the purpose of developing power _
(Add use to
which power is to be put and any other purpose for which land may be
desired.)
In witness whereof the applicant _ ha _ caused this instru¬
ment to be executed this _ day of _ , 191__.
[SEAL OF CORPORATION.]
Attest :
- ?
Secretary.
* See footnote on page 54.
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When application is made by an individual or an association of
individuals, the following oath, serving as an affidavit of citizenship,
will be taken :
Subscribed and sworn to before me this _ day of
191—.
[seal.]
- 1
Notary Public.
Note. — This form is to be used by the applicant in making applica¬
tion for a final permit. Copies may be obtained upon application to
the District Forester at Missoula, Mont. ; Denver, Colo. ; Albuquerque,
N. Mex. ; Ogden, Utah ; San Francisco, Cal. ; Portland, Oreg. ; Washing¬
ton, D. C. ; or the Forest Supervisor at Ketchikan. Alaska. After the
blanks have been filled in, three copies should be filed as a part of the
application. (Reg. L-ll.)
60a. (Revised Mar. 1, 1913.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
Form of affidavit of engineer to accompany application for final
power permit.
State of _
County of
ss:
_ , _ being duly sworn,
says be is tbe engineer of (or tbe person employed to make the
surveys, collect tbe data, make tbe estimates, and prepare tbq
designs and plans by) the _ Company \
that tbe survey of tbe water conduits, transmission lines, reser¬
voirs, and power-house sites as shown upon tbe maps filed to¬
gether herewith and described as follows: _
(Describe as in the application, Form 60.)
being a total length of water conduit of _ miles,
a total length of transmission lines of _ miles,
a total area of reservoir site of _ acres,
and a total area of power-house site of _
acres was made by him (or under his direction) under authority
of said _ Company; that said
survey was commenced on _ _ and completed on
_ _ , 19 _ ; that said survey represents the proposed
final location of said water conduits, transmission lines, reser¬
voir sites, and power-house sites, and that said survey is
accurately represented upon the maps herein described ; he
further says that the notes of survey filed together here¬
with as Exhibit - are the notes of the above-described
survey; that said notes are a true and complete copy of an
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actual location survey made upon the ground by him (or under
his direction) within the dates above named; and that all of
said notes and no others were used in the preparation of the
maps herein described; he further says that the plans of struc¬
tures filed together herewith and described as follows : _
(Describe as in the application, Form 60.)
were prepared by him (or under his direction) under authority
of said _ Company; that the designs as
shown upon said plans represent safe, proper, and adequate
structures for the full economic utilization of the power avail¬
able for development at the location shown upon the maps
herein described; and he further says that the data and esti¬
mates filed together herewith as Exhibit _ were prepared by
him (or under his direction) under authority of said _
_ Company; that the estimates shown in said Ex¬
hibit _ are based upon the said data, being all the data
available therefor; and that said estimates represent, in his
best judgment and belief, the amount of power that can be de¬
veloped, under the condition specified, by the works shown upon
the maps and plans herein described.
Engineer.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this _ day of _
191 _ _
[seal.]
Notary Public.
Note. — This affidavit form is not to be placed upon map, plans, or
other exhibits, but is to be typewritten and filed as “ Exhibit _ ”
of the application. See Regulations L— 11 (.T). If the above-described
work has been done by or under the direction of more than one engi¬
neer, each should subscribe to an affidavit covering the part of the work
for which he is responsible.
60b. (Revised Mar. 1, 1913.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
Form of certificate of applicant to accompany application for
final poiver permit.
I, -
v tify that I am the _ of the
Company ; that _ _
, do hereby cer-
_ , who
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subscribed (respectively) to tlie foregoing affidavit—, is (are)
tbe engineer— of (said company) (tbe person _ employed by
said company to do tbe work evidenced on tbe (respective)
affidavit _ ) ; that tbe survey of tbe water conduits, transmission
lines, reservoirs, and power-bouse sites as shown upon tbe
maps filed together herewith and designated as follows _
(Designate as in affidavit.)
the notes of survey as given in “ Exhibit _ filed together
herewith, the designs of structures as shown upon the plans
filed together herewith and designated as follows _
(Designate as in affidavit.)
the collection of data and the estimates of power as given in
Exhibit _ ,” filed together herewith, were made under au¬
thority of said (company) ; that said (company) is fully author¬
ized by its articles of incorporation to construct, maintain, and
operate water conduits, transmission lines, dams, reservoirs,
and power houses upon the location shown upon the above-
described maps, and of the design shown upon the above-
described plans; that said locations and said designs have been
adopted by said (company) as the approximate final locations
and the approximate final designs of said water conduits, trans¬
mission lines, dams, reservoirs, and power houses ; that said
estimates as shown by said “ Exhibit _ ” have been approved
by said (company) ; and that, in accordance with the regulations
of the Secretary of Agriculture, the maps, plans, estimates,
and data herein described have been prepared as a part of an
application of said (company) dated _ _ , 191—, and
bearing my signature (as _ of said com¬
pany ) .
[seal of company.] _ ,
_ of the Company.
Attest :
Secretary.
Note. — This certificate form is not to be placed upon map, plans, or
other exhibits, but is to be typewritten and filed as “ Exhibit _ ” of
the application. See Regulations L— 11 (J).
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Form 61. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by district forester.]
Power Stipulation.
Whereas, in accordance with the regulations issued under the
act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), by the Secretary of
Agriculture, _ _ _
filed with the district forester at _ on the
_ day of _ , 191 _ , an application for a final power
permit authorizing the occupancy and use of certain lands of
the United States within the _ National
Forest in the State of _ , and the construc¬
tion, maintenance, and, or, operation thereon of certain project
works for the development, transmission, and distribution of
power, said lands and said project works being described and
shown by the maps, field notes, plans, estimates, and data con¬
tained in said application :
Now, therefore, in consideration of and as a prerequisite to
the granting of the aforesaid permit, the permittee stipulates
and agrees as follows, to wit :
DEFINITION OF TERMS.
Article 1. That the following terms wherever used in this
stipulation shall have the meanings hereby in this article
assigned to them, viz :
“ Permittee ” means _
a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of _ , and having its office
and principal place of business at _ in the
State of _
“ Secretary ” means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States of America, or his successor, or his duly authorized
representative, or such other officer or agent of the United
States as may be legally designated.
“ National Forest lands ” means lands of the United States
reserved, acquired, and, or, held for National Forest purposes.
“ Permit,” as used in this stipulation, means the final power
permit, application for which has been filed as aforesaid, in
v accordance with the regulations of the Secretary under the act
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of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), and the permit in con¬
sideration of which this stipulation is filed with the district
forester.
“ Municipal purposes ” means and includes all purposes within
municipal powers as defined by the charter of the municipal
corporation, where any such purpose is directly pursued by the
municipal corporation itself with the primary object of promot¬
ing the security, health, good government, or general conven¬
ience of its inhabitants.
“ Power business ” means the entire business of the permittee
in the generation, distribution, and delivery of power by means
of any one power system, together with all works and tangible
property involved therein, including freeholds and leaseholds in
real property.
“ Power system ” means all interconnected plants and works
for the generation, distribution, and delivery of power.
“Power project ” means a complete unit of power develop¬
ment, consisting of a power house, conduit or conduits conduct¬
ing water thereto, all storage or diverting of fore-bay reservoirs
used in connection therewith, the transmission line delivering
power therefrom, any other miscellaneous structures used in
connection with said unit or any part thereof, and all lands the
occupancy and *use of which are necessary or appropriate in the
development of power in said unit.
“ Project works ” means the physical structures of a power
project.
“ Construction of the project works ” means the actual con¬
struction of dams, water conduits, power houses, transmission
lines, or some permanent structure necessary to the operation
of the complete power project, and does not include surveys or
the building of roads and trails, or the clearing of reservoir
sites or other lands to be occupied, or the performance of any
work preliminary to the actual construction of the permanent
project works.
“Primary transmission line” means the main line or lines
over which power is delivered from a power house, or generat¬
ing station, at the voltage of the high-tension side of the station
transformers.
“Distance of primary transmission” means the distance
measured along the primary transmission line from the power
house to the point of first reduction in line voltage by means of
transformers.
“ Operation period ” means the period covered by final per¬
mit subsequent to the actual beginning of operation.
“ Survey-construction period ” means the period covered by
preliminary and final permits prior to the operation period.
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“ Nominal stream flow ” means the sum of (a) the flow deter¬
mined by averaging the values estimated for the natural mean
flow for the two-month (calendar) minimum-flow period in each
successive five-year period or major fraction thereof, and (&)
the stream flow made available from storage by project works
not under the permit.
“ Load factor ” means the ratio of average power output to
maximum power output.
“ Total capacity of the power site ” means the continued
product of (1) the factor 0.0S;1 (2) the average effective head
in feet; (3) the stream flow estimated to be available at the
intake (in second-feet and in amount not to exceed the maxi¬
mum hydraulic capacity of the project works) considered as
the sum of (a) the nominal stream flow and (&) stream flow
made available from storage by project works under the per¬
mit; and (4) a factor, not less than the average load factor of
the power system, representing the degree of practicable utili¬
zation of the stream flow estimated to be available, and based
on the extent of fore-bay storage and the load of the power
system.
“ Rental capacity of the power site ” means the capacity on
which the rental charges are based. Unless otherwise ordered
by the Secretary, it will be determined by making the following
deductions from the total capacity of the power site :
(a) Whenever power projects include water-conduit or intake
reservoir sites not wholly on National Forest lands, a deduction
will be made from that part of the total capacity of the power
site which is due to the use of the nominal stream flow. This
deduction will be, in per cent, the sum of (1) the product of the
proportion of the average effective head obtained from the dam
by the per cent of submerged lands below the flow line fixed by
the average effective head that are not National Forest lands,
and (2) the product of the proportion of the average effective
head obtained from the water conduit by the per cent of the
length of said conduit which is not located on National Forest
lands.
(&) Whenever power projects include reservoir sites not
wholly on National Forest lands, a deduction will be made from
that part of the total capacity of the power site which is due to
the use of stream flow made available from storage by the
project works under the permit. This deduction will be the
per cent of the total area of the reservoir sites that is not
National Forest land.
V ' " *
1 The factor 0.08 represents the horsepower at 70 per cent efficiency
of a second-foot of water falling through a head of 1 foot.
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(c) From the total capacity of the power site which remains
after deductions (a) and (&) have been made may be made a
further deduction, which, in per cent, shall be the product of
the square of the distance of primary transmission in miles and
the factor 0.001, but in no case will deduction (c) exceed 25
per cent.
AMENDMENT OF MAPS AND PLANS.
Art. 2. To construct its project works on the location shown
upon and in accordance with the maps and plans contained in
the aforesaid application, which said maps and plans are hereby
made a part of this stipulation, and to make no material devia¬
tion from said location or from said plans unless and until
maps or plans showing such deviation shall have been submitted
to the district forester and approved by the Secretary.
Art. 3. To file, within six (6) months after the completion of
each part of the project wTorks, as required in article 5 hereof,
in the manner prescribed for original maps of location, maps
showing the final location of each part of the project works as
constructed, if such final location varies from that shown upon
maps originally filed or upon approved amendments thereof;
and to file also within six (6) months of the completion of
each part of the project works as aforesaid, in such manner
as may be prescribed by the Secretary, detailed working plans
of each part of the project works as constructed, except of such
parts as have been constructed in compliance wTith the plans
originally filed or approved amendments thereof.
BEGINNING AND COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION AND BEGINNING OF
OPERATION.
Art. 4.* To begin the construction of the aforesaid project
* works on or before _ , and thereafter dili¬
gently and continuously to prosecute such construction, unless
such construction is temporarily interrupted by climatic con¬
ditions or by some special or peculiar cause beyond the control
of the permittee.
Art. 4.* To begin the construction of the following several
parts of the aforesaid project works on or before the several
dates in this article specified, and thereafter diligently and
continuously to prosecute such construction, unless such con¬
struction is temporarly interrupted by climatic conditions or by
some special or peculiar cause beyond the control of the per¬
mittee.
(1) On or before
/
, Part I, consisting of
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Art. 5.* * To complete the construction and begin the operation
of the aforesaid project works on or before _
Art. 5.* To complete the construction and begin the operation
of the following several parts of the aforesaid project works on
or before the several dates in this article specified.
(1) On or before _ , Part I, consisting of
Art. 6. That it is understood, if upon any one of the dates
specified in article 4 hereof, unless the time is extended by the
written approval of the Secretary, after showing by the per¬
mittee satisfactory to the Secretary, and filed with the district
forester prior to said date, that such beginning of construction
of that part of the project works required to have been begun
on the specified date has been prevented by engineering diffi¬
culties that could not reasonably have been foreseen, or by
other special and peculiar cause beyond the control of the per¬
mittee, that thereupon the permission to occupy and use National
Forest lands for all parts of said project works the construction
of which has not been begun on said date shall terminate and
become void; and that the permit, in so far as such parts of
said project works are concerned, shall become of no effect.
Art. 7. That it is understood that the dates specified in article
5 hereof for the completion of construction and the beginning of
operation of the several parts of the project works will be ex¬
tended only on the written approval of the Secretary, after a
showing by the permittee satisfactory to the Secretary that the
completion of construction and beginning of operation has been
prevented by engineering difficulties that could not reasonably
have been foreseen, or by other special and peculiar cause
beyond the control of the permittee; and if such extension be
not approved, that thereupon the permission to occupy and use
National Forest lands for such parts of said project works shall
terminate and become void ; and that the permit, in so far only as
such parts of said project works are concerned, shall become of
no effect.
Art. 8. That except when prevented by unavoidable accidents
or contingencies, the permittee will, after the completion of
construction as required in article 5 hereof, operate in good
faith and as continuously as may be possible under prevailing
market requirements, the project works constructed, and, or,
* Use the first form of articles 4 and 5 when but one complete power
project is to be constructed and it is inadvisable to separate it into two
or more units of construction. When several distinct power projects
are involved, or where it may be desirable to divide a single power
* project into two or more units of construction, use the second form of
articles 4 and 5. Cancel form not used.
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maintained, in whole or in part under the permit ; that the per¬
mittee will neither discontinue the operation of said project
works nor reduce the amount of power developed or trans¬
mitted by the same at such a time or in such a manner as to
reduce the output of electric energy required by the consuming
public, or to increase the market price therefor, or to discrimi¬
nate between consumers, or to prejudice the public interests;
and that if there is discontinuance of operation or reduction in
amount of power generated or transmitted for a continuous
period of more than thirty (30) days or for an aggregate period
of more than ninety (90) days in any calendar year, the per¬
mittee wrill notify the district forester of the fact of such dis¬
continuance or reduction and of the reasons therefor.
CAPACITIES OF POWER SITE.
Art. 9. That the total capacity of the power site, permission
for the occupancy and use of which, in whole or in part, has been
applied for, shall, for the purposes of this stipulation, be deemed
and taken to be _ horsepower, distributed, as follows :
and that the part of the aforesaid total capacity which is due
to the use of the nominal stream flow shall, for the purposes of
this stipulation, be deemed and taken to be _ horse¬
power, distributed as follows: _
and that the part of the aforesaid total capacity which is due
to the use of stream flow made available from storage by the
project works under the permit shall, for the purposes of this
stipulation, be deemed and taken to be _ horsepower,
distributed as follows : _
it being understood that if any approved alteration or amend¬
ment of any map or plan, as provided for in article 2 and article
3 hereof, or any permanent change in the nominal stream flow,
due to storage or otherwise, shall result in an increase or de¬
crease in the total capacity of the power site, or of either part
thereof, or of both, as said capacities are hereinbefore taken,
said increased or decreased power capacities shall, from the
beginning of the calendar year next succeeding the date of such
approval, or of such change in nominal stream flow, be deemed
and taken to be, for the purposes of this stipulation, the capaci¬
ties of the power site occupied and used, in whole or in part,
under the permit; and it being further understood that if at
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any time not less than ten (10) years after the original or after
the last preceding determination of the said total capacity of the
power site, or of either part thereof, or of both, either the per¬
mittee or the Secretary on the ground of the inaccuracy, in¬
sufficiency, or inapplicability of the data upon which said origi¬
nal or said last preceding determination of said capacities was
made, shall apply for or give notice of review of said original
or said last preceding determination, then and thereupon such
review shall be taken by the Secretary and a redetermination
of the capacities shall be made, and the said redetermined
capacities shall, for the purposes of this stipulation, and from
the beginning of the next calendar year, be deemed and taken to
be the capacities of the power site occupied and used in whole
or in part under the permit.
RENTAL CHARGES.
Art. 10. To pay annually in advance from the 1st day of Jan¬
uary, 191 _ , to the _ National Bank of
_ (United States depository), or such other
Government depository or officer as may be hereafter legally
designated, to be placed to the credit of the United States, a
rental charge for the occupancy and use of the lands of the
United States described and shown upon the maps hereinbefore
referred to, which rental charge shall be calculated from the
“ rental capacity of the power site,’’ as defined in article 1
hereof, at the following rates per horsepower per year :
For the unexpired portion of the calendar year and for the first
full calendar year of the survey-construction period, and simi¬
larly for the operation period _ $0. 10
For the second full calendar year of each of said periods _ . 20
For the third year - . 30
For the fourth year - . 40
For the fifth year - . 50
For the sixth year - . 60
For the seventh year - . 70
For the eighth year - . 80
For the ninth year - . 90
For the tenth and each succeeding year - 1. 00
it 'being understood that said estimated rental capacity may
be adjusted annually by the Secretary to provide for changes
in ownership of lands in reservoir sites and on water-conduit
lines and for changes in length of primary transmission; and
it being further understood that at any time not less than ten
(10) years after the issuance of the permit, or after the last
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revision of rates of rental charge thereunder the Secretary
may review such rental rates and impose such new rental rates
as he may decide to be reasonable and proper : Provided , That
such rental rates shall not be so increased as to reduce the
margin of income (including appreciation in land values) from
the power project or projects under the permit over proper
actual and estimated expenses (including reasonable allowance
for renewals and sinking-fund charges) to an amount which, in
view of all the circumstances (including fair development ex¬
penses and working capital) and risks of the enterprise (includ¬
ing obsolescence, inadequacy, and supersession), is unreason¬
ably small; but the burden of proving such unreasonableness
shall rest upon the permittee.
Art. 11. That it is understood, if the permittee completes the
construction and begins the operation of each of the several
parts of the aforesaid project works within the periods pro¬
vided for in article 5 hereof or any approved extension thereof,
that then and thereupon all payments for the occupancy and
use of National Forest lands for said part of said project works
so completed and operated which have been made for the survey-
construction period will be credited to the permittee for the can¬
cellation of charges as they become due in the operation period.
Art. 12. That it is understood, if any part of the power devel¬
oped by the project works under the permit is used by the per¬
mittee itself for irrigation as auxiliary to irrigation works
owned and operated by the permittee, for logging operations in
connection with the purchase by the permittee of National
Forest timber under a timber-sale agreement or for the manu¬
facture into a merchantable product by the permittee of such
timber so purchased, or for the temporary development of power
to be used in the construction of permanent project works under
permit issued to the permittee, that upon application by the
permittee, accompanied by a showing of fact satisfactory to the
Secretary, such a proportional part of the full schedule charge
for any calendar year will be credited to the permittee as the
power developed by the project works and used for the purposes
above named bears to the total output of the project works for
said year; and that any amount so credited will he applied to
the cancellation of charges as they may thereafter become due.
Art. 13. That it is understood, if any part of the aforesaid
rental charge, payable as hereinbefore provided, shall, after due
notice has been given, be in arrears for ninety (90) days, that
then and thereupon the permit shall be subject to revocation
by the Secretary.
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Art. 14. That the decision of the Secretary shall be final as
to all matters of fact upon which the calculation of the capaci¬
ties or rental charges depends.
RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS.
Art. 15. To install and maintain in good operating condition at
_ such electric meters and at _ ^ _
_ such weirs, gauges, or other water-measuring device,
as shall be approved by the Secretary, free of all expense to
the United States ; to keep accurate and sufficient records of all
measurements and of all meter or other readings and records to
the satisfaction of the Secretary; and to make a return during
January of each year, under oath, of such of the records of
measurements for the year ending on December 31 preceding,
made by or in the possession of the permittee, as may be re¬
quired by the Secretary.
Art. 16. That the books and records of the permittee in so far
as they contain information concerning the power project or
projects under permit, or the power business conducted in con¬
nection therewith, shall be open at all times to the inspection
and examination of the Secretary.
Art. 17. On demand of the Secretary, to maintain in such form
as the Secretary may prescribe or approve, a system of account¬
ing of the entire power business conducted in connection with
the power project or projects under the permit, and to render
annually such reports of said power business as the Secretary
may direct : Provided, however, That if the laws of the State
in which the said power business or any part thereof is trans¬
acted require periodical reports from public-utility corporations
under a uniform system of accounting, copies of such reports so
made will be accepted, to the extent that they furnish the
necessary information, as fulfilling the requirements of this
article.
MISCELLANEOUS REQUIREMENTS.
Art. 18. To protect all Government and other telephone, tele¬
graph, and power-transmission lines at crossings of and at all
places in proximity to the permittee’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 said transmission lines in such manner as not to
menace life or property.
Art. 19. To clear and keep clear all lands of the power project
for such width and in such manner as the Secretary may direct.
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Art. 20. To dispose of all brush, refuse, or unused timber on
National Forest lands resulting from the construction, mainte¬
nance, and, or, operation of the project works as may be re¬
quired by the Secretary.
Art. 21. To build and repair roads and trails as required by
the Secretary, whenever any existing roads or trails are de¬
stroyed or injured by the construction work or flooding under
the permit ; and to build and maintain necessary and suitable
crossings for all roads and trails which intersect the water con¬
duit, if any, constructed, maintained, and, or, operated under
the permit.
Art. 22. To do everything reasonably within its power and to
require its employees, contractors, and employees of contractors
to do everything reasonably within their power, both inde¬
pendently and upon request of the forest officers, or other agents
of the United States, to prevent and suppress fires on or near
the lands to be occupied under the permit.
Art. 23. To pay in advance 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, maintenance, and, 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, leak¬
ing, or seeping of water from the project works constructed,
maintained, and, or, operated under the permit, and fot all
other damage to the lands or other property of the United
States caused by the neglect of the permittee or of the em¬
ployees, contractors, or employees of the contractors of the
permittee.
Art. 25. To permit the use of any reservoir for the temporary
storage or for the transportation of logs, ties, poles, or lumber ;
and, upon demand of the Secretary, to construct, maintain, and
operate a logway or other device approved by the Secretary
and suitable for the passage of such logs, ties, poles, or lumber
over or around any dam without undue hindrance or delay;
and, unless otherwise approved by the Secretary, to furnish free
of cost to users of such logway or other device the machinery
and the power necessary for the operation of such logway or
other device: Provided, however, That the permittee shall not
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be required to furnish any labor other than that necessary in
the operation of the power machinery used in connection with
such iogway or other device : And provided further, That the use
of said reservoir or of such logway or other device by owners
of such logs, ties, poles, or lumber shall be under such rules
and regulations adopted by the permittee as may be approved
by the Secretary.
Art. 26. 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 per¬
mittee can furnish the same to the United States without dimin¬
ishing 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 per¬
mittee 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 by any duly constituted agency of the State in
which the service is rendered; but if such regulation is not
exercised by the State or by any duly constituted agency
thereof, the Secretary may, upon the filing with him of formal
complaint by the State, by a municipality, or by not less than
twenty-five (25) customers or prospective customers of the
permittee, cause an inquiry to be made concerning the service or
rate of payment complained of ; and if it shall appear upon such
inquiry that the service or the rate of payment complained of
is unreasonable, the Secretary may fix the character of the
service and may name the rate of payment which shall be ren¬
dered or charged.
Art. 28. That upon demand therefor in writing from the Sec¬
retary the permittee will surrender the permit to the United
States or transfer the same to such State or municipal corpora¬
tion as the Secretary may designate, and on the conditions speci¬
fied in this article, and will give, grant, bargain, sell, and trans¬
fer with the permit (upon such demand and upon said condi¬
tions) the following-described works, equipment, structures, and
other property : -
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That the permittee will waive all right to demand or receive
consequential damages for the severance of any of the property
enumerated above and taken under the provisions of this article
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from any property not taken. The Secretary may require such
surrender if the United States shall desire to take over the per¬
mit and properties, or he may designate as such transferee any
State or municipal corporation which shall desire such transfer :
Provided, however, That no municipal corporation shall be so
designated unless by proceedings in a court of competent juris¬
diction it shall have been determined that such a municipal
corporation has the right to acquire such property: And pro¬
vided further. That no municipal corporation shall be so desig¬
nated unless it also has the power to acquire the said property
and rights of the permittee in accordance with the following
conditions. Such surrender or transfer shall be on condition
precedent that the United States or such transferee shall first
pay to the permittee the reasonable value of all said, works,
equipment, structures, and other tangible property and, in addi¬
tion thereto, a bonus of three-fourths of 1 per cent of such rea¬
sonable value for each full year of the unexpired term of the
permit. Such reasonable value shall not include any sum for
any permit, franchise, or right granted by the United States,
by any State, or by any municipal corporation in excess of the
amount (exclusive of any tax or annual charge) actually paid
to the United States or to such State or municipal corporation
as compensation for the granting of such permit, franchise, or
right, or any sum for any other intangible properties or values
whatsoever, it being the intent of this article that all such in¬
tangible values shall be covered by the bonus herein provided
for. Such reasonable value shall be determined by mutual
agreement between the parties in interest, and, in case they
can not agree, by a board of arbitration of three members, one
of whom shall be named by the permittee and one by the trans¬
feree; the third shall be either the Secretary or some repre¬
sentative whom he may name. The reasonable value, for the
purposes of such determination, of such works, equipment,
structures, and other tangible property shall be the actual and
necessary cost thereof, or, if such original cost can not be deter¬
mined with reasonable certainty, shall be the cost of reproduc¬
tion of such works, equipment, structures, and other tangible
property under substantially the same conditions as existed at
the time of the original construction and at prices for labor
and material which shall be the average of such prices for the
five years next preceding the date of valuation, less a percent¬
age of such original or such reproduction cost equal to the per
cent of physical and functional depreciation of the existing
works, equipment, structures, and other tangible property.
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Art. 29. That in respect to the regulation by any competent
public authority of the service to be rendered by the permittee
or of the price to be charged therefor, and in respect to any
purchase or taking over of the properties or business of the
permittee or any part thereof by the United States, or by any
State within which such properties are situated or business car¬
ried on, in whole or in part, or by any municipal corporation
of such State, no value whatsoever shall at any time be as¬
signed to or claimed for the permit, or for the occupancy or use
of National Forest lands granted thereunder, nor shall the
permit or such occupancy and use ever be estimated or con¬
sidered as property upon which the permittee shall be entitled
to earn or receive any return, income, price, or compensation
whatsoever.
Art. 30. That the works constructed or to be constructed,
maintained, and, or, operated under the permit will not be
owned, leased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device
or in any manner so that they form part of or in any way
effect any combination in the form of an unlawful trust, or
form the subject of any unlawful contract or conspiracy to
limit the output of electric energy, or are in unlawful restraint
of trade with foreign nations or between two or more States or
within any one State in the generation, transmission, distribu¬
tion, or sale of electric or other power.
Art. 31. That any approval of any alteration or amendment,
or of any map or plan, or of any extension of time shall affect
only so much of the stipulation or permit as is specifically cov¬
ered by such approval ; and that no approval of any such altera¬
tion, amendment, or extension shall operate to alter or amend, or
in any way whatsoever be a waiver of any other part, condition,
or provision of the stipulation or permit.
In witness whereof, the permittee has executed this stipula¬
tion on the _ day of _ , 191__.
[seal.] _ _
By -
Attest :
Secretary.
Note. — This stipulation will be prepared by the district forester and
presented to the applicant for execution. After being properly executed,
it should be returned to the district forester together with the Acknowl¬
edgment, and, where necessary, evidence of authority for the corporate
officer to sign for the company, (See Form 319, p. 89.)
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Form 61b. [Revised Mar. 1, 1913.]
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
Acknowledgment.
State of _
County of
On this _ day of _ , 191—, before me, a notary
public in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn,
my commission expiring _ , 191 _ , personally
came _ _ , to me personally
known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he resides in _ , that he is the _
of the _ Company, that said company is the
corporation which is described in and which executed the fore¬
going instrument, that he knows the seal of said corporation,
that the seal affixed to such instrument is such corporate seal,
that it was so affixed by order of the board of directors of
said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like
order; and the said _ _
acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of
said corporation.
Witness my hand and official seal the day and year first
above written.
[notarial seal.] _ ,
Notary Public.
' Note. — This form of Acknowledgment should accompany all stipula¬
tions for final power permits, transmission-line permits, and right-of-
way grants.
Form 62. [Revised July 1, 1915.]
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by District Forester.]
Final Power Permit.
Whereas, in accordance with the regulations issued under the
act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), by the Secretary of
Agriculture (hereinafter called the “Secretary”), _
_ _ ( hereinafter called the “ per¬
mittee”), filed with the district forester at _
on the _ day of _ , 191—, an application for a final
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power permit authorizing the occupancy and use of certain
lands of the United States within the _ _ Na¬
tional Forest in the State of _ , and the con¬
struction, maintenance, and, or, operation thereon of certain
project works for the development, transmission, and distribu¬
tion of power ; said lands and said project works being described
and shown by the maps, field notes, plans, estimates, and data
contained in said application ; and
Whereas the aforesaid maps and plans, as hereinafter spe¬
cifically described, have been adopted by the permittee as the
maps of the approximate final location and as the approximate
plans of the project works which the permittee proposes to con¬
struct under this permit ; and
Whereas the permittee has paid the rental charges required
by the aforesaid regulations as a condition precedent to the
issuance of this permit ; and
Whereas the permittee on the _ day of _ , 191 — , exe¬
cuted a stipulation required by the Secretary as a condition to
the issuance of this permit and has filed said stipulation with
the district forester at _ :
Now, therefore, the permittee is authorized, subject to the
aforesaid stipulation and to the provisions hereinafter set forth,
to occupy and use the lands hereinbefore referred to and to
construct, maintain, and, or, operate thereon, for the purposes
in article 1 below set forth, the following project works :
Cancel such of the four following items (a), (b), (c), and (d) as may
not be applicable.
(a) -
(Masonry, earth, etc., diverting or storage.)
dams approximately _ feet in maximum
height and approximately - feet in maxi¬
mum length, to form _ reservoirs to flood
approximately _ acres at spillway level, re¬
spectively,* in section _ _
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ acres are National Forest land, said dams and
said reservoirs being designated, respectively, as follows : _
(&) _ water conduits approximately
_ miles in length, respectively,* crossing
* If surveyed, describe by section, township, and range. If unsur¬
veyed, substitute in paragraphs (a), (6), (c), and ( d ) the following:
“ located on certain lands described and shown by the maps and field
u notes accompanying the application filed with the district forester on
the _ day of _ _ , 191__.”
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sections
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ miles will cross National Forest lands, said
water conduits being designated, respectively, as follows : _
(c) _ power houses and appuretenant struc¬
tures to occupy approximately _ acres, re¬
spectively,* in section _
_ _ meridian, of which approximately _
_ acres are National Forest land, said power
houses being designated, respectively, as follows : _
(d) _ transmission lines _
_ miles in length, respectively,* crossing sections _
_ meridian, of which approximately _
_ miles will cross National Forest land, said trans¬
mission lines being designated as follows : _
All as approximately shown upon certain maps and plans
subscribed and sworn to by _
_ on the _ day of _ , 19 _ , which maps and
plans are filed together herewith and designated as follows:
(Designate each original map or plan as “ Exhibit A,” “ Exhibit B,”
etc., following each such designation by the title of the map or plan, as
“ Exhibit A, Map of Location of, etc.” ; “ Exhibit _ , Plan of, etc.”)"
which maps and plans, together with certain field notes, esti¬
mates and data, evidence of water rights, articles of incorpora¬
tion, etc., designated, respectively, _
(Designate each exhibit by
letter and name, as “ Exhibit M, Articles of Incorporation,” etc.)
_ are hereby made a part of this permit.
Article 1. The project works to be constructed, maintained,
and, or, operated under this permit shall be constructed, main¬
tained, and, or, operated for the purpose of storing, conducting,
and, or, using water for the development of power or for the
purpose of the transmission, distribution, and use of power.
Art. 2. Unless sooner revoked by the Secretary, this permit
shall terminate and become void on the _ day of _ ,
19 — , but on said date will be deemed to be an application by
* See footnote on p. 73.
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the permittee for a new permit to occupy and use such National
Forest lands as are occupied and used under this permit: Pro¬
vided, That the permittee will comply with then existing laws
and regulations governing the occupancy and use of National
Forest lands for power purposes and shall have notified the
Secretary not less than two (2) nor more than twelve (12)
years prior to said date that such new permit is desired.
Art. 3. Violation of any of the conditions of the aforesaid
stipulation or of this permit shall he sufficient cause for the
revocation of this permit : Provided, however, That this permit
will not be deemed to be terminated except upon formal revoca¬
tion thereof by the Secretary and until the permittee shall have
had a reasonable time — not to exceed ninety (90) days — within
which to show cause why such revocation should not be made. If
this permit is revoked, priority maintained hereby will be lost, and
no application, either preliminary or final, covering in whole or
in part either the lands under this permit or adjacent lands, for
a like use (except for transmission lines), will be accepted
from the permittee until the expiration of one year after such
loss of priority ; and this restriction shall extend to transferees
of the permittee and, if the permittee is a corporation, to rein¬
corporations representing the same or associated interests,
whenever in the judgment of the Secretary a transfer or rein¬
corporation has been effected for the purpose or with the result
of escaping the restriction of this regulation, it being the intent
of such restriction to leave open to other applicants for a period
of one year power sites upon which priorities have lapsed as
herein provided.
Art. 4. This permit and the permission granted hereunder to
occupy and use National Forest lands may be transferred to a
new permittee under the following conditions, and not other¬
wise: The proposed transferee shall file with the district for¬
ester of the district in which the lands under this permit are
situated the decree, execution of judgment, will, contract of
sale, or other written instrument upon which the proposed trans¬
fer is based, or a properly certified copy thereof, also a written
application for the transfer. A stipulation binding the proposed
transferee to the performance of such of the old conditions and
of such new and additional conditions as the Secretary may
deem necessary will be prepared and submitted to the proposed
transferee for execution and return to the district forester ; and
thereupon, if the Secretary approves of the transfer and issues
a new permit, the transferee shall succeed to the rights and
obligations of the permittee, subject, however, to such new and
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additional conditions as shall have been embodied in such
stipulation and permit.
Art. 5. The power project or projects authorized by this per¬
mit, or any part thereof, whether constructed or unconstructed,
may be abandoned by the permittee upon the written approval
of the Secretary after a finding by the Secretary that such
abandonment will neither tend to prevent the subsequent de¬
velopment of such project or part thereof so abandoned, nor be
contrary to the public interest, and after the fulfillment by the
permittee of all obligations under the aforesaid stipulation and
this permit, in respect to payment or otherwise, existing at the
time of such approval.
Art. 6. Upon the voluntary abandonment of the occupancy
and use of National Forest lands, as authorized by this permit
(except as provided for in article 4 hereof), or upon the revoca¬
tion of this permit, or upon the nonexecution of a new permit
at the termination of this permit, all permanent project works
which have been constructed under the authority of this permit,
such as reservoirs, dams, and operating mechanism, water con¬
duits and operating mechanism, power houses, and other build¬
ings, shall become and remain the property of the United States :
Provided, however, That if said revocation or abandonment
shall, as provided for in the aforesaid stipulation, affect only a
part of the project works, the construction of which is author¬
ized by this permit, the provisions of this article shall apply
only to such parts of said project works as are affected by such
revocation or abandonment. The mechanical equipment of
power houses shall remain the property of the permittee, and may
be removed within a reasonable time, not to exceed six (6)
months after such abandonment, revocation, or termination,
unless other disposition of such equipment is approved by the
Secretary.
Art. 7. This permit is subject to all prior valid claims and
permits which are not subject to the occupancy and use hereby
authorized.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this _
day of _ , 191—
Secretary of Agriculture.
Note. — This form will not be used by the applicant. After being
executed by the Secretary, the final power permit in complete form will
be forwarded to the applicant.
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Form 63. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by District Forester.]
Transmission Line Permit.
(Act of February 15, 1901.)
Whereas, in accordance with the regulations issued under
the act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), by the Secretary of
Agriculture (hereinafter called the “ Secretary ”) _
_ (hereinafter called the “permittee”),
filed with the district forester at _ on the
_ day of _ , 191 _ , an application for a transmission¬
line permit authorizing the occupancy and use of certain lands
of the United States within the _ National
Forest in the State of _ , and the construc¬
tion, maintenance and, or, operation thereon of certain project
works for the transmission and distribution of electric power,
said lands and said project works being described and shown by
the maps and field notes contained in said application ; and
Whereas, the aforesaid maps, as hereinafter specifically de¬
scribed, have been adopted by the permittee as the maps of ap¬
proximate final location of the transmission line _ which the
permittee proposes to construct under this permit ; and
Whereas, the permittee has paid the rental charges required
by the aforesaid regulations as a condition precedent to the
issuance of this permit ; and
Whereas, the permittee, on the _ day of _ , 191 _ ,
executed a stipulation required by the Secretary as a condition
to the issuance of this permit and has filed said stipulation with
the district forester at _ :
Now, therefore, the permittee is authorized, subject to the
aforesaid stipulation and to the provisions hereinafter set forth,
to occupy and use the lands hereinbefore referred to, and to
construct, maintain, and, or, operate thereon _
transmission line _ miles in length, respec¬
tively,* crossing sections _
- meridian, of which approximately
_ miles will cross National Forest land,
* If surveyed, describe by section, township, and range. If unsur-
veyed, substitute the following : “ located on certain lands described
and shown by the maps and field notes accompanying the application
filed with the district forester on the _ day of _ , 191 _ ”
said transmission lines being designated as follows :
as approximately shown upon _ certain map _ and as described
in certain field notes subscribed and sworn to by _
- - - on the _ day of _ ,
191 _ , which maps and field notes are filed together heiewith
and designated as follows : _
(Designate each original of map as “Exhibit A,” “Exhibit B,” etc.,
following each such designation by the title of the map, as “ Exhibit
A, Map of Location of,” etc. Also designate field notes as “ Exhibit
- ,” etc.)
which maps and field notes, together with certain other data
designated as “ Exhibit _
(Designate each exhibit
»
by letter and name, as “ Exhibit M, Articles of Incorporation,” etc.)
are hereby made a part of this permit.
Article 1. Unless sooner revoked by the Secretary, this permit
shall terminate and become void On the _ day of _ _ _ ,
19 _ , but on said date will be deemed to be an application by
the permittee for a new permit to occupy and use such National
Forest lands as are occupied and used under this permit: Pro¬
vided, That the permittee will comply with then existing laws
and regulations governing the occupancy and use of National
Forest lands for power purposes, and shall have notified the
Secretary not less than two (2) nor more than twelve (12)
years prior to said date that such new permit is desired.
Art. 2. Violation of any of the conditions of the aforesaid
stipulation or of this permit shall be sufficient cause for the
revocation of this permit : Provided, however, That this permit
will not be deemed to be terminated except upon formal revoca¬
tion thereof by the Secretary and until the permittee shall have
had a reasonable time — not to exceed ninety (90) days — within
which to show cause why such revocation should not be made.
Art. 3. This permit and the permission granted hereunder to
occupy and use National Forest lands may be transferred to
a new permittee under the following conditions, and not other¬
wise: The proposed transferee shall file with the district for¬
ester of the district in which the lands under this permit are
situated the decree, execution of judgment, will, contract of sale,
or other written instrument upon which the proposed transfer is
based, or a properly certified copy thereof, also a written appli- 4
cation for the transfer. A stipulation binding the proposed
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transferee to the performance of such of the old conditions and
of such new and additional conditions as the Secretary may
deem necessary will be prepared and submitted to the proposed
transferee for execution and return to the district forester ; and
thereupon, if the Secretary approves of the transfer and issues
a new permit, the transferee shall succeed to the rights and
obligations of the permittee, subject, however, to such new and
additional conditions as shall have been embodied in such
stipulation and permit.
Art. 4. The transmission line or lines authorized by this per¬
mit, or any part thereof, whether constructed or unconstructed,
may be abandoned by the permittee upon the written approval
of the Secretary after a finding by the Secretary that such
abandonment will not be contrary to the public interest, and
after the fulfillment by the permittee of all obligations under
the aforesaid stipulation and this permit, in respect to payment
or otherwise, existing at the time of such approval.
Art. 5. Upon the voluntary abandonment of the occupancy
and use of National Forest lands, as authorized by this permit
(except as provided for in article 3 hereof), or upon the revoca¬
tion of this permit, or upon the nonexecution of a new permit
at the termination of this permit, all permanent works which
have been constructed under the authority of this permit shall
become and remain the property of the United States.
Art. 6. This permit is subject to all prior valid claims and
permits which are not subject to the occupancy and use hereby
authorized.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this _
day of _ , 191—
Forester.
Note. — This form will not be used by the applicant. After being
executed by the Secretary, the transmission-line permit in complete
form will be forwarded to the applicant.
Form 68. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by District Forester.]
Transmission Line Stipulation.
(Act of February 15, 1901.)
Whereas, in accordance with the regulations issued under the
act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), by the Secretary of
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Agriculture ( hereinafter called the “ Secretary ” ) , _
_ (hereinafter called the “permittee”)
filed with the district forester at _ on the
_ day of _ , 191 _ , an application for a transmission-
line permit authorizing the occupancy and use of certain lands
of the United States within the _ National
Forest in the State of _ , and the construc¬
tion, maintenance, and, or, operation thereon of certain project
works for the transmission and distribution of electric power,
said lands and said project works being described by the maps
and field notes contained in said application :
Now, therefore, in consideration of and as a prerequisite to
the granting of the aforesaid permit, the permittee stipulates
and agrees as follows, to wit :
Article 1. To construct its transmission line or lines on the
location shown upon and in accordance with the maps con¬
tained in the aforesaid application, which said maps are hereby
made a part of this stipulation, and to make no material devia¬
tion from said location unless and until maps showing such
deviation shall have been submitted to the district forester and
approved by the Secretary, or by his authorized representatives.
Art. 2. To file within six (6) months after the completion
of the transmission line or lines, as required in article 3 hereof,
in the manner prescribed for original maps of location, maps
showing the final location of each line or lines as constructed, if
such final location varies from that shown upon maps originally
filed or upon approved amendments thereof.
Art. 3. To begin the construction of the aforesaid line or
lines on or before _ and to complete the
construction of said line or lines on or before _
Art. 4. That it is understood that the dates specified in
article 3 hereof for the beginning and completion of construc¬
tion will be extended only on the written approval of the Secre¬
tary, or his authorized representative, after a showing by the
permittee satisfactory to said officer that such beginning or
completion of construction has been prevented by engineering
difficulties that could not reasonably have been foreseen or by
other special and peculiar cause beyond the control of the
permittee.
Art. 5. That except when prevented by unavoidable accidents
or contingencies, the permittee will, after the completion of
construction as required in article 3 hereof, operate in good
faith and as continuously as may be possible under prevailing
market requirements, the line or lines constructed, and, or,
maintained in whole or in part under the permit; that the
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permittee will neither discontinue the operation of said line or
lines nor reduce the amount of power transmitted over the
same at such a time or in such a manner as to reduce the out¬
put of electric energy required by the consuming public, or to
increase the market price therefor, or to discriminate between
consumers, or to prejudice the public interests ; and that if there
is discontinuance of operation or reduction in amount of power
transmitted for a continuous period of more than thirty (30)
days or for an aggregate period of more than ninety (90) days
in any calendar year, the permittee will notify the district for¬
ester of the fact of such discontinuance or reduction and of the
reasons therefor.
Art. 6. To pay annually in advance during the decade begin¬
ning January 1, 191 _ , to the _ National Bank
of _ , or such other Government depository
or officer as may hereafter be legally designated, to be placed to
the credit of the United States, a rental charge of _
_ dollars ($ _ ), being at the approximate rate
of five dollars ($5) per mile per annum, and during each suc¬
ceeding decade an annual charge at such reasonable rate per
mile as the Secretary may fix at the beginning of each such
decade.
Art. 7. That meters and, or, other devices approved by the
Secretary, adequate for the determination of the amount of
power delivered over said transmission line or lines, shall be
installed and maintained in good operating condition in such
manner as may be approved by the Secretary at the following-
described places: _
(For each meter or other device, specify its loca¬
tion and the line or portion thereof to which connected.)
and that accurate and sufficient records of the foregoing deter¬
minations will be kept to the satisfaction of the Secretary ; and
that a return will be made during January of each year, under
oath, of said records of measurement for the year ending on
December 31 preceding.
Art. 8. That the books and records of the permittee, in so far
as they contain information concerning the power-transmission
line or lines under the permit, or the power business conducted
in connection therewith, shall be open at all times to the inspec¬
tion and examination of the Secretary, or other officer or agent
of the United States duly authorized to make such inspection
and examination.
Art. 9. On demand of the Secretary to maintain, in such form
* as the Secretary may prescribe or approve, a system of account-
*
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ing of the entire power business, conducted in connection with
the power-transmission line or lines under the permit; and to
render annually such reports of the said power business as the
Secretary may direct: Provided, however, That if the laws of
the State in which the said power business or any part thereof
is transacted require periodical reports from public-utility corpo¬
rations under a uniform system of accounting, copies of such
reports so made will be accepted, to the extent that they furnish
the desired information, as fulfilling the requirements of this
article.
Art. 10. To protect all Government and other telephone, tele¬
graph, and power-transmission lines at crossings of and at all
places in proximity to the permittee’s transmission line or lines
in a workmanlike manner, according to the usual standards of
safety for construction, operation, and maintenance in such
cases ; and to maintain said transmission line or lines in such a
manner as not to menace life or property.
Art. 11. To clear and keep clear National Forest lands along
the transmission line or lines for such width and in such a
manner as the forest officers may direct.
Art. 12. To dispose to the satisfaction of the forest officers of
all brush, refuse, or unused timber on National Forest lands
resulting from the construction, maintenance, and operation of
the transmission line or lines under the permit.
Art. 13. To do everything reasonably within its power and to
require its employees, contractors, and employees of contractors
to do everything reasonably within their power, both inde¬
pendently and upon request of the forest officers, or other agents
of the United States, to prevent and suppress fires on and near
the lands to be occupied under the permit.
Art. 14. To pay in advance to the United States depository or
officer, as above set forth in article 6 hereof, to be placed to the
credit of the United States, the full value as fixed by the dis¬
trict forester, of all timber cut, injured, or destroyed on Na¬
tional Forest lands in the construction, maintenance, and, or,
operation of the transmission line or lines under the permit.
Art. 15. 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 cus¬
tomer by a binding contract of sale : Provided, That nothing in
this article shall be construed to require the permittee to in¬
crease its permanent works or install additional generating
machinery. \
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Art. 16. 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 by any duly constituted agency of the State in
which the service is rendered ; but if such regulation is not exer¬
cised by the State or by any duly constituted agency thereof,
the Secretary may, upon the filing with him of formal com¬
plaint by the State, by a municipality, or by not less than
twenty-five (25) customers or prospective customers of the
permittee, cause an inquiry to be made concerning the service
or rate of payment complained of ; and if it shall appear upon
such inquiry that the service or the rate of payment com¬
plained of is unreasonable, the Secretary may fix the character
of the service and may name the rate of payment which shall be
rendered or charged.
Art. 17. That the line or lines to be constructed, maintained,
and, or, operated under the permit will not be owned, leased,
trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device or in any man¬
ner so that they form part of or in any way effect any combina¬
tion in the form of an unlawful trust, or form the subject of
any unlawful contract or conspiracy to limit the output of elec¬
tric energy, or are in unlawful restraint of trade with foreign
nations or between two or more States or within any one State
in the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of electric
energy.
Art. 18. That in respect to the regulation by any competent
public authority of the service to be rendered by the permittee
or of the price to be charged therefor, and in respect to any pur¬
chase or taking over of the properties or business of the per¬
mittee, or any part thereof, by the United States or by any State
within which such properties are situated or business carried on
in whole or in part, or by any municipal corporation of such
State, no value whatsoever shall at any time be assigned to or
claimed for the permit, or for the occupancy or use of National
Forest lands granted thereunder, nor shall the permit or such
occupancy and use ever be estimated or considered as property
upon which the permittee shall be entitled to earn or receive
any return, income, price, or compensation whatsoever.
Art. 19. That any approval of any alteration or amendment,
or of any map or plan, or of any extension of time shall affect
only so much of this stipulation or of the permit as is specifi¬
cally covered by such approval ; and that no approval of any
such alteration, amendment, or extension shall operate to alter
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or amend or in any way whatsoever be a waiver of any other
part, condition, or provision of this stipulation or of the permit.
In witness wThereof, the permittee has executed this stipula¬
tion on the _ day of - , 191—
[seal.] _ _ _
By -
Attest :
Secretary.
Note. — This stipulation will be prepared by the district forester and
presented to the applicant for execution. After being properly exe¬
cuted, it should be returned .to the district forester together with the
Acknowledgment, and, where necessary, evidence of authority for the
corporate officer to sign for the company. (See Form 319, p. 89.)
Form 69. (Revised July 1, 1915.)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
[Designation to be inserted by District Forester.]
Stipulations — Telephone, Telegraph, and Power-
Transmission Lines.
(Act of Mar. 4, 1911.)
Whereas, in accordance with the regulations issued under the
act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1253), by the Secretary of Agri¬
culture (hereinafter called the “Secretary”), _
_ (hereinafter called the “grantee”) filed
with the district forester at _ on the _
day of - , 191 _ , an application for a _
line grant authorizing the occupancy and use of certain lands of
the United States within the _ National For¬
est in the State of _ , and the construction,
maintenance, and, or, operation thereon of certain project
works (for the transmission and distribution of electric powTer,
for the transmission of communications by telephone and, or,
telegraph *), said lands and said project works being described
by the maps and field notes contained in said application:
Now, therefore, in consideration of and as a prerequisite to
the issuance of the aforesaid grant, the grantee does hereby
stipulate and agree, and does bind himself, his heirs, executors,
administrators, and assigns, and each of them, jointly and sev-
* Cancel the use not applicable to the application.
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erally (themselves, their heirs, executors, administrators, and
assigns, and each of them, jointly and severally) (itself, its suc¬
cessors, and assigns), as follows, to wit:
Article 1. To construct its line or lines on the location
shown upon and in accordance with the maps contained in the
aforesaid application, which said maps are hereby made a part
of this stipulation, and to make no material deviation from
said location unless and until maps showing such deviation
shall have been submitted to the district forester and approved
by the Secretary or by his authorized representative.
Art. 2. To file within six (6) months after the completion
of the line or lines, as required in article 3 hereof, in the man¬
ner prescribed for original maps of location, maps showing the
final location of the line or lines as constructed, if sucb final
location varies from that shown upon maps originally filed or
upon approved amendments thereof.
Art. 3. To complete the construction of the aforesaid line or
lines on or before _
Art. 4. That except when prevented by unavoidable acci¬
dents or contingencies, the grantee will, after the completion
of construction as required in article 3 hereof, operate in good
faith and as continuously as may be possible under prevailing
market requirements, or users’ demands, the line or lines con¬
structed, and, or, maintained in whole or in part under the
grant; that the grantee will neither discontinue the operation
of said line or lines, nor reduce the amount of power transmitted
over the same, at such a time or in such a manner as to reduce
the output of electric energy required by the consuming public,
or to increase the market price therefor, or to discriminate
between consumers, or to prejudice the public interests; and
that if there is discontinuance of operation, or reduction in
amount of power transmitted for a continuous period of more
than thirty (30) days or for an aggregate period of more than
ninety (90) days in any calendar year, the grantee will notify
the district forester of the fact of such discontinuance or reduc¬
tion and of the reasons therefor.
Art. 5. To pay annually in advance during the decade begin¬
ning January 1, 191__, to the _ National
Bank of _ _ , or such other Government de¬
pository or officer as may hereafter be legally designated, to be
placed to the credit of the United States, a rental charge of
_ dollars ($ - ), being at the ap¬
proximate rate of five dollars ($5) per mile per annum, and dur-
t ing each succeeding decade an annual charge at such reasonable
rate per mile as the Secretary may fix at the beginning of each
such decade.
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Art. 6. That meters and, or, other devices approved by the
Secretary, adequate for the determination of the amount of
power delivered over said transmission line or lines, will be
installed and maintained in good operating condition in such
manner as may be approved by the Secretary at the following
described places: _
and that accurate and sufficient records of the foregoing deter¬
minations will be kept to the satisfaction of the Secretary ; and
that a return will be made during January of each year, under
oath, of said records of measurements for the year ending on
December 31 preceding.
Art. 7. That the books and records of the grantee, in so far
as they contain information concerning the power-transmission
line or lines under grant or the power business conducted in
connection therewith, shall be open at all times to the inspection
and examination of the Secretary or other officer or agent of
the United States duly authorized to make such inspection and
examination.
Art. 8. On demand of the Secretary to maintain, in such form
as the Secretary may prescribe or approve, a system of account¬
ing of the entire power business, conducted in connection with
the power-transmission line or lines under the grant; and to
render annually such reports of the said power business as the
Secretary may direct : Provided , hoivever, That if the laws of
the State in which the said power business or any part thereof
is transacted require periodical reports from public-utility corpo¬
rations under a uniform system of accounting, copies of such
reports so made will be accepted, to the extent that they furnish
the necessary information, as fulfilling the requirements of this
article.
Art. 9. To protect all Government and other telephone, tele¬
graph, and power-transmission lines at crossings of and at all
places in proximity to the grantee’s telephone, telegraph, and,
or, power-transmission line or lines in a workmanlike manner,
according to the usual standards of safety for construction,
operation, and maintenance in such cases ; and to maintain said
telephone, telegraph, and, or, power-transmission line or lines in
such a manner as not to menace life or property. .
Art. 10. To clear and keep clear National Forest lands along
the right of way for such width and in such a manner as the
forest officers may direct.
Art. 11. To dispose to the satisfaction of the forest officers of
all brush, refuse, or unused timber on National Forest lands K
resulting from the construction, maintenance, and operation of
the line or lines under grant.
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Art. 12. To do everything reasonably within its power, and
to require its employees, contractors, and employees of con¬
tractors to do everything reasonably within their power, both
independently and upon request of the forest officers, or other
agents of the United States, to prevent and suppress fires on or
near the lands occupied under the grant.
Art. 13. To pay in advance to the United States depository or
officer as above set forth in article 5 hereof, to be placed to the
credit of the United States, 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, or
operation of the transmission line or lines under the grant.
Art. 14. 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
grantee 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
grantee to increase its permanent works or to install additional
generating machinery.
Art. 15. To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service
rendered and to be rendered by the grantee, whether in respect
to the furnishing or transmitting of power or to the transmitting
of communications by telephone or telegraph, and of rates of
payment therefor, as may from time to time be prescribed by the
State or by any duly constituted agency of the State in which
the service is rendered; but if such regulation with respect to
the furnishing or transmitting of power is not exercised by the
State or by any duly constituted agency thereof, the Secretary
may, upon the filing with him of formal complaint by the State,
by a municipality, or by not less than twenty-five (25) cus¬
tomers or prospective customers of the grantee, cause an inquiry
to be made concerning the service or rate of payment complained
of ; and if it shall appear upon such inquiry that the service or
the rate of payment complained of is unreasonable, the Secre¬
tary may fix the character of the service and may name the
rate of payment which shall be rendered or charged.
Art. 16. That the line or lines to be constructed, maintained,
and, or, operated under the grant will not be owned, leased, trus¬
teed, possessed, or controlled by any device or in any manner so
that they form part of or in any way effect any combination in
the form of an unlawful trust, or form the subject of any un¬
lawful contract or conspiracy to limit the output of electric
energy, or are in unlawful restraint of trade with foreign
nations or between two or more States or within any one State
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in the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of electric
energy, or in the transmission of communications by telephone
or telegraph.
Art. 17. That in respect to the regulation by any competent
public authority of the service to be rendered by the grantee or
of the price to be charged therefor, and in respect to any pur¬
chase or taking over of the properties or business of the grantee,
or any part thereof, by the United States or by any State within
which such properties are situated or business carried on, or
by any municipal corporation of such State, no value whatso¬
ever shall at any time be assigned to or claimed for the grant,
or for the occupancy or use of National Forest lands granted
thereunder, nor shall the grant or such occupancy and use ever
be estimated or considered as property upon which the grantee
shall be entitled to earn or receive any return, income, price, or
compensation whatsoever.
Art. 18. That upon breach by the grantee of any of the terms
or conditions set forth in this stipulation or in the grant, the
United States may enforce appropriate remedy therefor by suit
for specific performance, injunction, action for damages, or
otherwise; and if any such breach shall be continued or re¬
pealed after thirty (30) days’ notice thereof, given to the
grantee by the Secretary, the right of way granted, together
with all rights thereunder and all rental charges and other
moneys paid thereon, may be forfeited to the United States by
a suit for that purpose in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Art. 19. That the grantee will not assign or transfer to any
other person or corporation whatsoever the right of way granted,
except with the approval in writing first obtained from the
Secretary of Agriculture or other proper officer of the United
States, and upon terms and conditions prescribed in said written
approval by said Secretary or other officer.
(Insert here any additional stipulations proposed in accordance with
Reg. Lf-24.)
In witness whereof, the grantee has executed this stipulation
on the _ day of _ , 191—
[ SEAp. ] _ _
By -
Attest :
Secretary.
Note. — This stipulation will be prepared by the district forester and
presented to the applicant for execution. After being properly exe¬
cuted, it should be returned to the district forester together with the
Acknowledgment, and, where necessary, evidence of authority for the
corporate officer to sign for the company. (See Form 319, p. 89.)
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(Reverse of Form 319.)
Proof Required of Corporate Officer’s Authority to
Sign Agreements, Permits, and Bonds as Prin¬
cipal.
When an agreement, bond, or other legal instrument is ex¬
ecuted by a corporation, and evidence is required of the author¬
ity of the person who signs on behalf of the corporation, such
evidence should be either —
(1) A certified copy of the provisions in the articles of in¬
corporation or by-laws of the company relating to the authority
of its officers to sign contracts and other similar instruments.
Such provision to be acceptable should be substantially as fol¬
lows in effect :
“ * * * The president (or other officer) shall sign and
execute all bonds, contracts, agreements, and other obliga¬
tions in the name of the company. * * * ”
(2) A certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors
giving the requisite authority to the signing officer. If there is
no such existing resolution and one is required, it should be
passed by the board of directors before the instrument is ex¬
ecuted. The following is suggested as a form for such a reso¬
lution :
“ Resolved that the _ of this company
(Officer’s title.)
be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to make, sign,
execute, and deliver, for and in behalf of this company, and
as its act and deed, any and all options, deeds, contracts,
stipulations, bonds, or other instruments between this com¬
pany and the Secretary of the United States Department of
Agriculture, or the Forester or other duly authorized repre¬
sentative of such Secretary.”
In every case, the copy of the resolution, article of incorpora¬
tion, or by-law should be followed by a certificate by the secre¬
tary of the company, under the corporate seal. The following
is given as a form for such certificate :
I, _ , secretary of
the _ Company, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true copy [of the article of incorporation (or
of the by-law, as the case may be) which pertains to the
powers of the _ of said company;] or [of
(Title of officer.)
a resolution, and of the whole thereof, passed by the board of
v directors at a directors* meeting, duly called and assembled,
and at which a quorum was present;] that said article of in-
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corporation (by-law or resolution, as the case may be) was
on the _ in full force and effect; and that
(Date of executing contract.)
on said date _ was
(Name of person signing instrument.)
the _ of the said company.
(Title.)
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my
name as secretary of the _ Company and
affixed the corporate seal of said company this _ day of
_ , 191 _ .
[CORPORATE SEAL.]
Secretary of the
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