[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: 36CFR261.70]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 261_PROHIBITIONS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C_Prohibitions in Regions
 
Sec.  261.70  Issuance of regulations.


    (a) Pursuant to 7 CFR 2.60, the Chief, and each Regional Forester, 
to whom the Chief has delegated authority, may issue regulations 
prohibiting acts or omissions within all or any part of the area over 
which he has jurisdiction, for one or more of the following purposes:
    (1) Fire prevention or control.
    (2) Disease prevention or control.
    (3) Protection of property, roads, or trails.
    (4) Protection of threatened, endangered, rare, unique, or vanishing 
species of plants, animals, birds or fish, or special biological 
communities.
    (5) Protection of objects or places of historical, archaeological, 
geological or paleontological interest.
    (6) Protection of scientific experiments or investigations.
    (7) Public safety.
    (8) Protection of health.

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    (9) Establishing reasonable rules of public conduct.
    (b) Regulations issued under this subpart shall not be contrary to 
or duplicate any prohibition which is established under existing 
regulations.
    (c) In issuing any regulations under paragraph (a) of this section, 
the issuing officer shall follow 5 U.S.C. 553.
    (d) In a situation when the issuing officer determines that a notice 
of proposed rule making and public participation thereon is 
impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest, he shall 
issue, with the concurrence of the Chief, an interim regulation 
containing an expiration date.
    (e) No interim regulation issued under paragraph (d) of this section 
will be effective for more than 90 days unless readopted as a permanent 
rule after a notice of proposed rule making under 5 U.S.C. 553 (b) and 
(c).