[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: 36CFR223.9]

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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,

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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 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)