[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: 36CFR223.137]

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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 C_Suspension and Debarment of Timber Purchasers
 
Sec. 223.137  Causes for debarment.

    The debarring official may debar a purchaser for any of the 
following causes:
    (a) Conviction of or civil judgment for:
    (1) Theft, forgery, bribery, embezzlement, falsification or 
destruction of records, making false statements, or receiving stolen 
property;
    (2) Fraud, a criminal offense, or violation of Federal or State 
antitrust laws, any of which occurred in connection with obtaining, 
attempting to obtain, or performing a public contract or subcontract.
    (3) Any other offense indicating a lack of business integrity or 
honesty that seriously and directly affects the present responsibility 
of the purchaser.
    (b) A purchaser's debarment from the purchase of timber by another 
Federal agency which sells timber.
    (c) Cutting and/or removal of more than incidental volumes of timber 
not designated for the purchaser's cutting from a national forest.
    (d) Substantial violation of the terms of one or more Forest Service 
timber sale contracts so serious as to justify debarment, such as:
    (1) Willful failure to perform in accordance with contract; or
    (2) A history of failure to perform contract terms; or of 
unsatisfactory performance of contract terms.
    (e) Among actions the Forest Service regards as so serious as to 
justify debarment under paragraph (d) of this section are willful 
violation or repeated failure to perform National Forest System timber 
sale contract provisions relating to the following:
    (1) Fire suppression, fire prevention, and the disposal of slash;
    (2) Protection of soil, water, wildlife, range, cultural, and timber 
resources and protection of improvements when such failure causes 
significant environmental, resource, or improvements damage;
    (3) Removal of designated timber when such failure causes 
substantial product deterioration or conditions favorable to insect 
epidemics;
    (4) Observance of restrictions on exportation of timber;
    (5) Observance of restrictions on the disposal of timber from small 
business set-aside sales;
    (6) Providing access to the Forest Service upon its request to 
purchaser's books and accounts;
    (7) Payment of monies due under terms of a Forest Service timber 
sale contract, including payment of damages relating to failure to cut 
designated timber by the contract termination date;
    (8) Performance of contract by the contract termination date.
    (f) Any other cause so serious or compelling that if affects the 
present responsibility of a purchaser of Government timber.
    (g) Violation of the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage 
Relief Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620, et seq.) (Act) or any regulation or 
contract issued under the Act.

[52 FR 43329, Nov. 12, 1987, as amended at 60 FR 46921, Sept. 8, 1995]