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FOREST SERVICE HANDBOOK
PORTLAND, OREGON
TITLE 2409.15 - TIMBER SALE ADMINISTRATION HANDBOOK
R-6 Supplement No. 2409.15-92-8
Effective September 4, 1992
POSTING NOTICE. Supplements to this handbook are numbered consecutively. Check the last transmittal sheet received for this handbook to see that the above supplement number is in sequence. If not, obtain intervening supplement(s) at once from the Information Center.
Do not post this supplement until the missing one(s) is received and posted. After posting, place the transmittal at the front of the title and retain until the first transmittal of the next calendar year is received. The last R-6 Supplement to this handbook was 2409.15-92-7
(2409.15,31-32.22).
Document Name
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Digest:
This is a Technical Supplement to change this portion of Chapter 30 to official electronic format. CONTENT HAS NOT CHANGED.
JOHN E. LOWE
Regional Forester

R-6 SUPPLEMENT 2409.15-92-8
EFFECTIVE 9/4/92
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FSH 2409.15 - TIMBER SALE ADMINISTRATION HANDBOOK
R-6 SUPPLEMENT 2409.15-92-8
EFFECTIVE 9/4/92
CHAPTER 30 - CHANGES IN STATUS OF CONTRACTS
32 - CONTRACT TERM EXTENSION.
32.7 - Extension Procedure. For Regional Forester sales on which an extension has been requested, a report including a rate redetermination shall be sent to the Regional Office at least 2 months prior to the expiration date. The report should be accompanied by a copy of the purchaser's extension request letter, and by three sample copies of the extension and/or modification forms, that shall be needed to formally extend the contract. Sales that are known to involve unusual extension problems should be submitted to the Regional Office at least 2 months before expiration, and earlier if possible.
Regional Forester sales should be extended to expire on March 31. Advance approval must be recommended by the Forest Supervisor for a deviation from this date. Recommendations for granting extensions that terminate prior to March 31 should be accompanied by an operating plan from the purchaser indicating that logging shall be completed by the proposed date. Exceptions to this requirement shall be considered only when circumstances indicate that no subsequent extension could or would not be granted. Such exceptions may occur when (1) time is of the essence because the sale was made to accommodate a scheduled development or construction project such as a power line, reservoir, or road, (2) the purchaser should be given only a limited extension to encourage prompt removal of a small volume of remaining timber, and (3) the purchaser should be given only a limited extension in an effort to minimize deterioration of damaged or salvage timber prior to removal.
In granting a purchaser request for an extension, the Forest Supervisor shall strive to mitigate any evident or possible damage to the Government because of the purchaser's failure to complete timber sale prior to the effective date of the extension. The parent text discusses several items of cost or damage that should be considered in drawing up the conditions of an extension. Another case is where trees might die during the period of extension and rapid deterioration might then take place. The extension document should provide that the purchaser shall make full payment including payment for stumpage, sale area betterment, and slash disposal for marked and designated trees which die during the extended period, and that such trees shall be designated by the Forest Service in a manner that shall distinguish them from other dead trees. Payment for such trees should normally be based on 100 percent tree measurement.
It is frequently appropriate to charge for deterioration that occurs in designated blowdown timber during an extended period. The arrangement for determining such deterioration should be clearly spelled out in the extension papers. In areas where deterioration studies from blowdown timber are available, the study results can sometimes be applied to situations of this type. In most cases of this kind, a sampling of deterioration at the time of extension should be compared with actual deterioration at the time of scaling.