[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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.



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    (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 unsurveyed, the application must describe 

it by approximate latitude and longitude and otherwise with as much 

certainty as possible without survey.