[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2562.3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2560_ALASKA OCCUPANCY AND USE--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart 2562_Trade and Manufacturing Sites
 
Sec. 2562.3  Applications.

    (a) Execution. Application for a trade and manufacturing site should 
be executed in duplicate and should be filed in the proper office. It 
need not be sworn to, but it must be signed by the applicant and must be 
corroborated by the statements of two persons.
    (b) Fees. All applications must be accompanied by an application 
service fee of $10 which will not be returnable.
    (c) Time for filing. Application to purchase a claim, along with the 
required proof or showing, must be filed within 5 years after the filing 
of notice of the claim.
    (d) Contents. The application to enter must show:
    (1) That the land is actually used and occupied for the purpose of 
trade, manufacture or other productive industry when it was first so 
occupied, the character and value of the improvements thereon and the 
nature of the trade, business or productive industry conducted thereon 
and that it embraces the applicant's improvements and is needed in the 
prosecution of the enterprise. A site for a prospective business cannot 
be acquired under section 10 of the Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat. 413; 
43 U.S.C. 687a).
    (2) That no portion of the land is occupied or reserved for any 
purpose by the United States or occupied or claimed by natives of 
Alaska; that the land is unoccupied, unimproved, and unappropriated by 
any person claiming the same other than the applicant.
    (3) That the land does not abut more than 80 rods of navigable 
water.
    (4) That the land is not included within an area which is reserved 
because of springs thereon. All facts relative to medicinal or other 
springs must be stated, in accordance with Sec. 2311.2(a) of this 
chapter.
    (5) That no part of the land is valuable for mineral deposits other 
than coal, oil, or gas, and that at the date of location no part of the 
land was claimed under the mining laws.
    (e) Description of land. If the land be surveyed, it must be 
described in the application according to legal subdivisions of the 
public-land surveys. If it be

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unsurveyed, the application must describe it by approximate latitude and 
longitude and otherwise with as much certainty as possible without 
survey.