[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: 36CFR254.20]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 254_LANDOWNERSHIP ADJUSTMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart B_National Forest Townsites
 
Sec.  254.20  Purpose and scope.

    Authority: Pub. L. 85-569; 72 Stat. 438; 16 U.S.C. 478a, as amended 
by Sec.   213, Pub. L. 94-579; 90 Stat. 2743.

    Source: 50 FR 29673, July 22, 1985, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) A Forest Service official may, upon application, set aside and 
designate for townsite purposes up to 640 acres of National Forest 
System lands adjacent to or contiguous to an established community in 
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New 
Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
    (b) National Forest System lands, needed by a community, may be sold 
under the Townsite Act, for fair market value if those lands would serve 
indigenous community objectives that outweigh the public objectives and 
values of retaining the lands in Federal ownership. Indigenous community 
objectives may include space for housing and for service industries, 
expansion of existing economic enterprises, new industries utilizing 
local resources and skills, public schools, public health facilities, 
community parks, and other recreation areas for local citizens, but 
would exclude such uses as commercial enterprises or new industries and 
housing projects that would change the character of the local community.

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