[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR223.9]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 223_SALE AND DISPOSAL OF NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM TIMBER--
Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  223.9  Free use to owners of certain mining claims.

    Free use will be granted to an owner of a mining claim located 
subsequent to July 23, 1955, or of a mining claim which is otherwise 
subject to Section 4 of the Act of July 23, 1955 (69 Stat. 367), if at 
any time said claim owner requires more timber for his mining 
operations, in connection with that claim, than is available on that 
claim because of Forest Service timber disposal therefrom subsequent to 
location of that claim. He will be granted, free of charge, timber from 
the nearest National Forest land which is ready for harvesting under the 
applicable management plan, substantially equivalent in kind and 
quantity to that estimated by the Forest Service to have been cut under 
Forest Service authorization from the claim subsequent to its location, 
Forest officers may be delegated authority to grant amounts of timber

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not in excess of those which these officers are authorized to sell in 
commercial sales.

(Sec.   4, 69 Stat. 368, 16 U.S.C. 612)