[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR262.1]

[Page 381]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 262_LAW ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT ACTIVITIES--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart A_Rewards and Payments
 
Sec. 262.1  Rewards in connection with fire or property prosecutions.


    (a) Hereafter, provided Congress shall make the necessary 
appropriation or authorize the payment thereof, the Department of 
Agriculture will pay the following rewards:
    (1) Not exceeding $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and 
conviction of any person on the charge of willfully or maliciously 
setting on fire, or causing to be set on fire, any timber, underbrush, 
or grass upon the lands of the United States within the National Forest 
System or nearby.
    (2) Not exceeding $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and 
conviction of any person on the charge of having kindled or caused to be 
kindled a fire on lands of the United States within the National Forest 
System or nearby, and leaving said fire which escapes before the same 
has been totally extinguished;
    (3) Not exceeding $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and 
conviction of any person charged with destroying or stealing any 
property of the United States; and
    (4) Not exceeding $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and 
conviction of any person charged with damaging or stealing the Pacific 
yew tree, Taxus brevifolia, or any portion thereof, including but not 
limited to bark, twigs, needles and other foliage.
    (b) A reward may be paid to the person or persons giving the 
information leading to such arrest and conviction upon presentation to 
the Department of Agriculture of satisfactory evidence thereof, subject 
to the necessary appropriation as aforesaid, or otherwise as may be 
provided.
    (c) Officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture are 
barred from receiving such rewards.
    (d) The Department of Agriculture reserves the right to refuse 
payments of any claim for reward when, in its opinion, collusion or 
improper methods have been used to secure arrest and conviction. The 
Department also reserves the right to allow only one reward where 
several persons have been convicted of the same offense or where one 
person has been convicted of several offenses, unless the circumstances 
entitle the person to a reward on each conviction.
    (e) Applications for reward should be forwarded to the Regional 
Forester, Research Director, or Area Director who has responsibility for 
the land or property involved in the trespass. However, no application 
will be considered unless presented to a responsible Forest Service 
officer within three months from the date of conviction of an offender. 
In order that all claimants for rewards may have an opportunity to 
present their claims within the prescribed limit, the Department will 
not take action with respect to rewards for three months from the date 
of the conviction of an offender.

[42 FR 2961, Jan. 14, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 33521, June 30, 1981; 56 
FR 29182, June 26, 1991]