[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR14.25]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 14--RIGHTS-OF-WAY--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart C--Procedures
 
Sec. 14.25  Documents which must accompany application.

    (a) Maps. Each application, other than an appropriation for Federal-
aid highway purposes under Title 23, United States Code, section 317, 
must be accompanied by a map prepared on tracing linen, or on tracing 
paper having a 100 percent rag content, and three or, in the case of 
electric transmission lines, five print copies thereof, showing the 
survey of the right-of-way, properly located with respect to the public 
land surveys so that said right-of-way may be accurately located on the 
ground by any competent engineer or land surveyor. The map should comply 
with the following requirements:
    (1) The scale should be 2,000 feet to the inch for rights-of-way for 
such structures as canals, ditches, pipelines and transmission lines and 
1,000 feet to the inch for rights-of-way for reservoirs, except where a 
larger scale is required to represent properly the details of the 
proposed developments, in which case the scales should be 1,000 feet to 
the inch and 500 feet to the inch, respectively. For electric 
transmission lines having an nominal voltage of less than 33 kV. map 
scales may at option of the applicant be 5,280 feet to the inch.
    (2) Courses and distances of the center line of the right-of-way or 
traverse line of the reservoir should be given; the courses referred to 
the true meridian either by deflection from a line of known bearing or 
by independent observation, and the distances in feet and decimals 
thereof. Station numbers with plus distances at deflection points on the 
traverse line should be shown.
    (3) The initial and terminal points of the survey should be 
accurately connected by course and distance to the nearest corner of the 
public-land surveys, unless that corner is more than 6 miles distant, in 
which case the connection will be made to some prominent natural object 
or permanent

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monument, which can be readily recognized and recovered. The station 
number and plus distance to the point of intersection with a line of the 
public-land surveys should be ascertained and noted, together with the 
course and distance along the section line to the nearest existing 
corner, at a sufficient number of points throughout the township to 
permit accurate platting of the relative position of the right-of-way to 
the public-land survey.
    (4) If the right-of-way is across or within lands which are not 
covered by the public-land surveys, the map shall be made in terms of 
the boundary survey of the land to the extent it would be required above 
to be made in terms of the public-land surveys.
    (5) All subdivisions of the public-land surveys within the limits of 
the survey should be shown in their entirety, based upon the official 
subsisting plats, with the subdivisions, section, township, and range 
clearly marked.
    (6) The width of the canal, ditch, or lateral at high-water line 
should be given and the width of all other rights-of-way shall be given. 
If the width is not uniform, the location and amount of the change in 
width must be definitely shown. In the case of a pipeline, the diameter 
of the line should be given. The total distance of the right-of-way on 
the Federal lands shall be stated.
    (7) Each copy of the map should bear upon its face a statement of 
the engineer who made the survey and the certificate of the applicant. 
The statement and certificate referred to are embodied in Forms 1 and 2 
(Appendix A) which are made a part hereof and which should be modified 
so as to be appropriate to the act invoked and the nature of the 
project.
    (8) Whenever it is found that a public land survey monument or 
reservation boundary monument will be destroyed or rendered inaccessible 
by reason of the proposed development, at least two permanent marked 
witness monuments should be established at suitable points, preferably 
on the surveyed lines. A brief description of the witness monuments and 
the connecting courses and distances to the original corners should be 
shown.
    (b) Evidence of water right. If the project involves the storage, 
diversion, or conveyance of water, the applicant must file a statement 
of the proper State official, or other evidence, showing that he has a 
right to the use of the water. Where the State official requires an 
applicant to obtain a right-of-way as a prerequisite to the issuance of 
evidence of a water right, if all else be regular, a right-of-way may be 
granted conditioned only upon the applicant's filing the required 
evidence of water right from the State official within specified 
reasonable time. The conditional right-of-way will terminate at the 
expiration of the time allowed.