Land Uses - Special Uses - Recovery of Costs for Processing Special Use Applications and Monitoring Compliance With Special Use Authorizations (US Forest Service Regulation) (FS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Land Uses - Special Uses - Recovery of Costs for Processing Special Use Applications and Monitoring Compliance With Special Use Authorizations (US Forest Service Regulation) (FS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Department is adopting final regulations for recovering costs associated with processing applications for special use authorizations to use and occupy National Forest System lands and monitoring compliance with these special use authorizations. This final rule provides the agency with the regulatory authority to implement provisions in several statutes that authorize the Forest Service to collect fees to recover administrative costs associated with managing special uses on National Forest System lands. The provisions of this rule apply to applications and authorizations for use of National Forest System lands, including situations in which the land use fee may be waived or exempted, such as facilities financed or eligible to be financed with a loan pursuant to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as set forth in Public Law 98-300, and applications and authorizations involving Federal, State, and local governmental entities. The provisions of this rule do not apply to applications and authorizations for noncommercial group uses; applications and authorizations for recreation special uses, identified in Forest Service Handbook 2709.11, Chapter 50, by use codes 111 through 165, requiring 50 hours or less to process or monitor; and other uses specifically exempted by law or regulation. The rates established in this rule are the same as those adopted by BLM in its final right-of-way rule published in the Federal Register (70 FR 20969, Apr. 22, 2005). This book contains: - The complete text of the Land Uses - Special Uses - Recovery of Costs for Processing Special Use Applications and Monitoring Compliance With Special Use Authorizations (US Forest Service Regulation) (FS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section