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FOREST SERVICE HANDBOOK
JUNEAU, ALASKA
FSH 6509.17 – AUTOMATED TIMBER SALE ACCOUNTING HANDBOOK
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Supplement No.: 6509.17-2007-2
Effective Date: January 26, 2007
Duration: Effective until superseded or removed
Approved: /s/ Paul K. Brewster (for)
Dennis E. Bschor
Regional Forester
Date Approved: 01/10/2007
Posting Instructions: Supplements are numbered consecutively by Handbook number and
calendar year. Post by document name. Remove entire document and replace with this
supplement. Retain this transmittal as the first page of this document. The last supplement to
this Handbook was R-10 Supplement 6509.17-2007-1 to chapter 10.
New Document(s):
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Superseded Document(s) by
Issuance Number and
Effective Date:
Digest:
04.26 – Clarifies requirements regarding closure of timber sale contracts and review and
approval of financial status of said contracts.
R-10 SUPPLEMENT 6509.17-2007-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 01/26/2007
DURATION: Effective until superseded or removed
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FSH 6509.17- AUTOMATED TIMBER SALE ACCOUNTING HANDBOOK
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04.26 – Timber Sale Contracting Officer
Regional clarification to Item #2 of national direction is as follows:
Contracting Officer review and approval of the financial status of the purchaser’s account prior
to sale closure does not require a delay in completing the official closure letter pending month
end generation of the final statement of account.
The Resource technician will input the closure date when all manual financial audit and
clearance checks have been completed, regardless of the time of the business month. The TSA
system will then perform some internal edit checks. In the next day’s output, if all is in balance
internally, the TSA program will issue a notification of a valid closure date, via TSA-472-01
report. As of the date of this report, the financial status of the sale is considered sound and the
sale will be closed within the Timber Sale Accounting system. The official sale closure letter
may then be finalized and transmitted.
The Contracting Officer is required to sign, date and mail the final statement of account, which
contains the verbiage “Contract Has Been Closed”. This final statement is output during the
normal month end process, which will generally be after the formal closure letter was
transmitted.