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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
DENVER, CO
TITLE 1200 - ORGANIZATION
R2 Supplement No. 1200-93-1
Effective June 18, 1993
POSTING NOTICE. Supplements are numbered consecutively by Title 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 Title was Supplement
1200-91-1 to FSM 1220.
This supplement supersedes supplement No. 41, 44, and 47 to FSM 1230.
Page Code
1236.14--1 thru 1238
1236.14--3
1239
Document Name
1230
Digest:
Issues chapter 30 as an Data General electronic document.
ELIZABETH ESTILL
Regional Forester
Superseded
(Number of Sheets)
3
1
1
New
(Number of Pages)
7
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1236 - DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY TO FIELD POSITIONS.
1236.1 - Regions.
1236.12 - Deputy Regional Forester. The Deputy Regional Forester is delegated authority to
perform all duties and to exercise all of the powers and functions which are now, or which
hereafter may be, vested in the Regional Forester (FSM 1236.11).
1236.13 - Staff Director. Maximum latitude is encouraged in signing at the Staff Director level
with the understanding that the Director exercise judgment in recognizing the correspondence
which should go to the Regional Forester. Staff Directors are responsible for coordinating these
activities with other Directors to ensure harmony.
Staff Directors shall use the signing title of "Director" and the name of the staff as follows:
JAMES A. LAWRENCE
Director, State and Private Forestry
1236.14 - Regional Signing Authorities. See exhibit 01 for Regional Office General Delegations
and Signing Authority.
General Regional signing authorities are shown below. The following abbreviations are used in
the Staff Director columns:
HR
Human Resources
MSA
Management Systems and Administration
RR
Renewable Resources
ENG
Engineering
RPS
Recreation and Public Service
PR
Physical Resources
SPF
State and Private Forestry
PPB
Planning and Program Budget
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1236.14 - Exhibit 01
REGIONAL OFFICE GENERAL DELEGATIONS AND SIGNING AUTHORITY
ACTIVITY
1
Authority Delegated To
Staff
Director
RF1 D Acting
Acting Staff
FR
RF
RF
Dir
All correspondence relative to appeals.
X
All correspondence to Congress, State legislators,
and heads of agencies.
X
Letters stating new policy or directives initiating
policy or policy change.
X
Nonroutine external correspondence or responses
to inquiries to the personal attention of the
Regional Forester.
X
All retirement certificates.
X
Planning direction and related matters.
X
All incentive award certificates unless specifically
delegated to Forest Supervisors or Staff Directors.
X
An exception applies during an extended absence of the Regional Forester and Deputy; the
Acting Regional Forester may sign documents which must be acted upon to meet legally required
dates.
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1236.14 - Exhibit 01--Continued
REGIONAL OFFICE GENERAL DELEGATIONS AND SIGNING AUTHORITY
ACTIVITY
Authority Delegated To
Staff
Director
1
RF
Acting
Acting
Staff
DFR
RF
RF
Dir
Closure orders.
X
X2
Dual designated or dual subject correspondence
involving two or more staffs or forests.
X
X
4
Reply due requests and corespondence requiring
reports.
X
Correspondence as delegated in FSM 6120.
X
X HR
Correspondence as delegated in FSM 6200 - 6600
and selected protions of FSM 1200 and 1300.
X
X MSA
Correspondence and interagency agreements
pertaining to functional activities with the Bureau
of Reclamation, Corps of Engineers, National Park
Service, and State Park authorities.
X
X3
An exception applies during an extended absence of the Regional Forester and Deputy; the
Acting Regional Forester may sign documents which must be acted upon to meet legally required
dates.
1
2
Correspondence will be initialed by all functions in the designation prior to being signed.
3
Agreement must be approved by the Director, Management Systems and Administration, with
optional approval by the Office of General counsel.
4
Staff Director will use sound judgement to keep Regional Forester informed.
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1236.14 - Exhibit 01--Continued
REGIONAL OFFICE GENERAL DELEGATIONS AND SIGNING AUTHORITY
ACTIVITY
Authority Delegated To
Staff
Director
RF
Acting
Acting
DFR
RF
RF
Reports and correspondence to Bureau of Land
Management on easements, exchange, and other
land matters which require Forest Service consent
or approval.
X
X PR
Correspondence and agreements pertaining to
functional activities with the Federal Highway
Administration and the State Highway
Department of the States of Colorado, Wyoming,
Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
Correspondence and published standard road
agreements withcounty Commissioners within a
single Forest may be signed by the Forest
Supervisor.
X
X ENG
Correspondence pertaining to functional activities
with the State Engineers of the States of
Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, and
South Dakota concerning dams, This includes the
execution of forms pertaining to this work.
X
X2 ENG
Staff
Dir
1
Agreements, other than published standard agreements, must be approved by the Director,
Management Systems and Administration, and the Office of General Counse.
1
When diversion, impoindment, and other uses of water affect other rsources, correspondence
must be approved by the Directors concerned. Such correspondence will require signature of the
Regional Forester.
2
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1236.14 - Exhibit 01--Continued
REGIONAL OFFICE GENERAL DELEGATIONS AND SIGNING AUTHORITY
ACTIVITY
RF
DFR
Authority Delegated To
Staff
Director
Acting
Acting
RF
RF
Correspondence pertaining to functional activities
with the State Engineers of the States of
Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, and
South Dakota concerning water rights. This
includes the execution of forms pertaining to this
work.
X
X PR1
Reports and correspondence to Bureau of Land
Management on mineral lease applications,
mining claims, and other land-mineral matters.
X
X PR
Establish Regional standards and guides for
structural and nonstructural range improvements.
X RR
Correspondence pertaining to activities with the
State Foresters.
X SPF
Staff
Dir
When diversion, impoundment, and other uses of water affect other resources, correspondence
must be approved by the Directors concerned. Such correspondence will require signature of the
Regional forester.
1
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1239 - SUMMARY OF DELEGATIONS OF SPECIFIC AUTHORITY. Specific delegations of
authority for Region 2 are shown in exhibit 01.
1239 - Exhibit 01
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
X = May be redelegated to next lower organization level.
/ = Delegation limited to organizational level.
# = May be delegated to specified position.
FSM
Reference
Activity
Authority delegated to
RF
Acting
DRF
RF
Staff Dir
FS
6500 - FISCAL AND ACCOUNTING
MANAGEMENT
6531.15b
Enter into transactions with other Federal
Agencies under authority of the Economy
Act (FSM 1021) involving reimbursement
agency:
2. All Other
X