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B-189970 1 (1977-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfli0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I THE COMPTROL =NERAL DECIBION oP THE UNIT .U UEATEU VN ASH1iNCTON. LC C. 20 548 FILE: 3'dS970 DATE: December 16, 1977 MATTER OF: Cedar River Watershed Area DIGEST: Easement which !rants to Government use of road system within Ced-r River Watershed area to trans- port timber cut from its lands within watershcd area 'or tributary thereto permits transport of timber cut from Government lands outside watershed area as well as within that area. A certifying officer of the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Seattle, Washington, requests our opinion as to the pro- priety of certifying for payment two vouchers -n the amounts of $2,186. 58 and $21, 996. 67, payable to the City of Seattle Water Department and Mountain Tree Farm, respectively, as * a road use rental or toll fee * * * for hauling certa.'1 Forest Service timber over roads within the Cedar River Watershed area. Although the timber vas transported by the purchasers, Seaboard Lumber and Melvin Robinson, over roads within the watershed area in which the Government had purchased a right- of-way, the source of the timber is stated to have been outside this area. The Cedar River Watershed area is the subject of a cooperative agreement executed on May 28, 1962, between the U. S. Forest Service and the City of Seattle, Scott Paper Company, Weyerhaeuser Company and Mountain Tree Farm (a joint venture established by Scott and Weyerhaeuser to conduct logging operations in the Cedar Riv-er Watershed), for the 'Y t * coordinated and orderly manage- ment of the participating forest properties within the Cedar River Watershed * *. Pursuant to the cooperative agreement an easement was con- currently granted to the Government in an existing road system previously constructed and maintained by the other parties, and the Forest Service issued a reciprocal permit allowing the use of those portions of the road system located upon National Forest lands. In addition, a payment of $512, 700. 00 was made to Scott, Weyerhaeuser and Mountain Tree Farm as the negotiated price of those rights in the road system which they relinquished. -1- L. - - I

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