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Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in Northeast
Washington---

3\. Minerals-related permits on national forests, 1967 to 1998.

**by D.E. Boleneus**[^1]

**Open-File Report 99-414**

1999

Manuscript approved August 30, 1999

This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with
U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards. Any use of trade, product,
or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply
endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Although these programs are used by the US Geological Survey, no
warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy
and functioning of the programs and related program materials, nor shall
the fact of distribution constitute any such warranty, and no
responsibility is assumed by the USGS in connection herewith.

The digital data are not meant to be used or displayed at any scale
larger than 1:24,000.

**U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR**

**U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY**

### Contents

[***Abstract*** 3](#abstract)

[***Introduction*** 3](#introduction)

[***Description of data*** 4](#description-of-data)

[***How to obtain digital data*** 7](#how-to-obtain-digital-data)

[***References*** 7](#references)

[***Appendix I. Table of Plans of Operation and Notices of Intent filed
in Colville, Kaniksu, Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forests,
Washington State***
8](#appendix-i.-table-of-plans-of-operation-and-notices-of-intent-filed-in-colville-kaniksu-okanogan-and-wenatchee-national-forests-washington-state)

[Appendix II. Metadata 25](#appendix-ii.-metadata)

Figures

[Figure 1. Map showing locations of Plans of Operation or Notices of
Intent within the Colville, Kaniksu, Okanogan and Wenatchee National
Forests in Washington. 6](#__RefHeading___Toc464371729)

# Abstract

Permits to explore for and (or) develop mineral resources on forest land
can be used to indicate locations and types of mineral-related
activities on national forests. Permits for these activities require
filing at the Forest Service a Notice of Intention (Notice) to conduct
mineral exploration activities and (or) a Plan of Operation (Plan). A
Plan of Operation is required is significant activities are anticipated.
This compilation of Notices and Plans for the Colville, Kaniksu,
Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forests between 1967 and 1998 is
intended for use in combination with geologic and economic information
to predict future mineral-related activities in the region.

# Introduction

Purpose and problem. Plans of Operation and Notices of Intent are used
by the US Geological Survey to indicate the location, purpose and other
data about exploration and mining activity for minerals on national
forest lands in northeast Washington. Plans and Notices and other
mineral data bases are necessary to perform spatial modeling of mineral
resources and predict future minerals-related activity in the region, as
requested by the Forest Service.

The Forest Service, as part of its function as a land-managing
agency[^2] as described in the Code of Federal Regulations (Office of
National Archives and Records Administration, 1990), is responsible for
developing, adopting and applying land management plans[^3] on national
forest system lands. The Forest Service requested the US Geological
Survey supply minerals-related information in the development of several
forest plans. In particular, the Forest Service needs to know where
mineral developments may be reasonably foreseen. Other types of data
that are related to predicting mineral activity on forest lands are in
various stages of collection and analyses. These data include mining
claims, Plans and Notices on public land managed by the Bureau of Land
Management (unpublished data) and records of mineral industry activities
in Washington State summarized by Washington Department of Natural
Resources (unpublished data)

Definitions. To minimize environmental impacts on national forest
resources, Plans and Notices are recorded with the Forest Service
District Ranger in conjunction with any operations involving national
forest lands under the US mining laws[^4]. Plans and Notices to conduct
exploration recorded with the local US Forest Service offices indicate
the intent of a party to conduct work on the ground of a specified
parcel of national forest land. Generally, Plans or Notices are re-filed
annually for each year that activity is expected. A Notice of Intention
to operate is required from any operator proposing to conduct operations
which might cause disturbance of surface resources. It must identify the
area involved, the nature of the proposed operation, the route of access
and the method of transport. If the District Ranger determines that such
operation will likely cause significant disturbance of surface
resources, use mechanized equipment, or involve the cutting of trees,
the operator shall submit a proposed Plan of Operations[^5].

Method. The USGS with the assistance of the USFS personnel collected and
compiled data about Plans and Notices that were located in files from
various Forest Service offices of the Wenatchee, Okanogan, Colville, and
Kaniksu National Forests. (Figure 1).

Data collected from local USFS offices span the period 1967-1998.
However, the data available varied widely in detail and availability in
earlier years and depended on the data retained in local Forest
Supervisor or district files. In the Okanogan National Forest, data
provided were mostly within the period of 1990-1997. In the Colville
National Forest, data provided were mostly within the period of
1992-1997. In the Wenatchee National Forest, data provided were
generally during the period 1978-1998. Only one Notice is known from the
Kaniksu National Forest (managed by Idaho Panhandle Forests) within
Washington State. It occurred during 1985-1986

To create a point coverage that could be used in a geographic
information system, a latitude and longitude were needed to locate each
permit. The latitude and longitude were calculated for a central point
in a section selected within the permit area. For permits occupying two
or more sections, this was done by arbitrarily selecting an "assumed
section" that occupied the center of the permit's area. The calculation
method from township-range-section to latitude-longitude then uses the
freeware script, 'TRS2LL' (Martin Wefald, written commun.). The
resulting latitude and longitude refer to a point in the center of the
assumed section.

Acknowledgements. I would like to acknowledge the considerable and
valuable assistance of Rod Lentz, geologist, US Forest Service,
Okanogan, WA for making available much of the data for the Colville and
Okanogan National Forests and for reviewing this report. John Simmons,
Denny McMillan, Keith Anderson, Keith Kelly, and Les Julian of the
Forest Service provided much assistance in securing data from the
Wenatchee National Forest. Derrick Chase, geology student at Eastern
Washington University, Cheney, WA assisted in compiling a part of the
data on the spreadsheet.

# Description of data

Information compiled here includes data about metallic and non-metallic
mineral exploration or mining sites. Appendix 1 contains a table of 366
records of Plans and Notices for these sites. For each site data include
permit number, type of permit (plan, notice), forest name, applicant or
company, primary commodity, a list of all commodities, longitude,
latitude, starting year of permit, ending year of permit, local
identifier number used by the Forest Service office, project name,
purpose, district name, state, and location of permit by township,
range, and section(s). An eight-digit number is used to create a unique
number for each permit. The first digit indicates the Forest region
(1=Pacific Northwest), the 2^nd^-3^rd^ digits indicate the Forest name
(14=Colville, 17=Okanogan, 19=Wenatchee), the 4^th^-5^th^ digits
indicate the forest district, and the 6^th^ --8^th^ digits indicate the
permit number. The 9^th^ digit (right of the decimal) indicates
successive years or townships where two or more records compose one
permit.

Primary commodities or deposit types included in the data are agate,
gold, (placer or paleo-placer), gold-polymetallic, copper,
copper-polymetallic, lead-polymetallic, silver, talc, tungsten, uranium,
and zinc. Sites for common variety sand, gravel, stone and recreation
gold placer operations were not included. Recreation gold placer permits
using sluicing, panning and suction dredging are issued by the State of
Washington and are known as Hydraulic Project Approval (HPA) permits.
Washington State issued 6,227 HPAs on waters within the Wenatchee
National Forest and at least 1,027 HPAs in the Colville and Okanogan
National Forests during 1993-1995. Plans or Notices issued for gold
placer operations included in Appendix 1 are non-HPA sites.

In nearly all cases, one record in Appendix 1 represents one Plan or
Notice. Plans or Notices that occupy multiple sections are also
represented by one point located by the calculated latitude and
longitude as described above, with the following exceptions. A Plan or
Notice occupying sections in two or more townships is represented by two
or more records corresponding to the number of townships reported. One
exception, the Western Land and Resource Notice (61402004-61402007) was
filed for 48 townships occupying all of the northern one-half of Ferry
County and adjacent parts of Stevens and Okanogan counties. The corners
of this area are represented by four points, which define the corners of
its rectangular outline on Figure 1.

The Notices for Minatome Corp. (10408002, 10408003) lie east of the
boundary of the Colville National Forest and near the border with Idaho.
This site occurs within the Kaniksu National Forest (managed by the
Idaho Panhandle National Forests), although the boundary of the Kaniksu
National Forest is not shown.

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[]{#__RefHeading___Toc464371729 .anchor}Figure 1. Map showing locations
of Plans of Operation or Notices of Intent within the Colville, Kaniksu,
Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests in Washington. (continued below)

Sites of permits are indicated by the red square symbol. The open
squares in the Wenatchee National Forest "checkerboard" area are federal
lands interspersed with private lands of the railroad land grant.
Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator, 1927

Five files are found on the diskette:

[Explanation of file]{.underline} [File name and type]{.underline}

-   Text of report includes both appendices of99-414.doc (MS Word 97)

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-   Complete data for Table 1 of99-414.xls (MS Excel 97)

-   Metadata meta_414.txt (Text)

-   Figure 1 of99-414.jpg (JPEG picture)

-   Readme file readme_414 (Text)

Data about individual Plans or Notice are found in Appendix I.

Metadata gives further details about the data and are described in
Appendix II.

# How to obtain digital data

The complete digital files are available in various formats at the USGS
web site.

To obtain copies, do one of the following:

Download the digital files from the USGS public access World Wide Web
site on the

Internet URL =
<http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/of99-414.html>

Or by:

Anonymous FTP from wrgis.wr.usgs.gov in the directory
pub/open-file/of99-414.

The report and data are also available on diskette from: USGS Open-File
Services, P.O. Box 25286, Denver, CO 80225.

# References

Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records
Administration, 1990, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36, Part 200 to
end---Parks, Forests, and Public property: National Archives and Records
Administration, 350 p.

# Appendix I. Table of Plans of Operation and Notices of Intent filed in Colville, Kaniksu, Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forests, Washington State

Table is sorted by Forest and Permit No. Each record (row) spans the
consecutive pages of columns. Fields in the table (including the digital
file) are defined below.

  ------------------- ---------------------------------------------------
  Field name          Description

  Permit number       Plan or Notice number

  Type                Plan or Notice

  Forest              Name of forest containing plan or notice

  Applicant           Name of applicant or company conducting the work

  Latitude            Latitude of point at center of nearest section

  Longitude           Longitude of point at center of nearest section

  Primary commodity   Primary commodity (e.g. Au, Ag, Pb\...) or that
                      first listed

  All commodities     All commodities given as object of Plan or Notice

  Start year          First year permit was issued

  End year            Last year permit was issued

  District            Forest district where permit is located

  Local no.           Tracking number used by Forest

  Region              Forest region

  State               State

  Township            Township number (N) in Washington (Willamette
                      meridian)

  Range               Range number (E) in Washington (Willamette
                      meridian)

  Section             Sections within the township-range containing Plan
                      or Notice

  Assumed section     Section arbitrarily decided as centroid from which
                      the latitude and longitude were calculated using
                      the freeware script, \"trs2ll\" (M.Wefald, written
                      commun.)

  Subdivision         Subdivision of section, when available

  Project             Project name assigned by applicant

  Purpose             Purpose of Plan or Notice assigned by applicant
  ------------------- ---------------------------------------------------

# Appendix II. Metadata

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: David Boleneus

Publication_Date: 1999

Title:

Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in northeast

Washington\--3. Minerals-related permits on national forests, 1967

to 1998

Edition: version 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Excel 97 spreadsheet

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report OF99-414

Issue_Identification: 99-414.xls

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Spokane WA

Publisher:

U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage:

URL = http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/of99-414.html

Description:

Abstract:

Permits to explore for and (or) develop mineral resources on

Federal lands can be used to indicate locations and types of

mineral-related activities on national forests. Permits for these

activities require filing of a Notice of Intent to conduct mineral

exploration activities and (or) a Plan of Operation, if significant

land disturbance results. This compilation of notices and plans for

the Colville, Kaniksu, Okanogan, and Wenatchee national forests

between 1967 and 1998 is intended for use in combination with

geologic and economic information to predict future mineral-related

activities in the region.

Purpose:

This dataset was developed to provide mineral resource data for the

region of northeast WA for use in future spatial analysis by a

variety of users.

This database is not meant to be used or displayed at any scale

larger than 1:24,000.

Supplemental_Information:

This dataset consists of one Excel 97 spreadsheet file

(of99-414.xls) which contains information about permits on national
forest

lands in northeast Washington State.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1998

Currentness_Reference: Date that data were collected and compiled.

Status:

Progress: complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: No updates are planned at this time.

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -121.25

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.25

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: mineral resource

Theme_Keyword: lead

Theme_Keyword: zinc

Theme_Keyword: gold

Theme_Keyword: silver

Theme_Keyword: plan of operation

Theme_Keyword: placer gold

Theme_Keyword: mines

Theme_Keyword: notice of intent

Theme_Keyword: forest service

Theme_Keyword: metallic

Theme_Keyword: non-metallic

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Place_Keyword: Washington

Place_Keyword: northeast Washington

Place_Keyword: Ferry County

Place_Keyword: Okanogan County

Place_Keyword: Pend Oreille County

Place_Keyword: Stevens County

Place_Keyword: Colville National Forest

Place_Keyword: Okanogan National Forest

Place_Keyword: Sandpoint

Place_Keyword: Okanogan

Place_Keyword: Pacific Northwest

Place_Keyword: USA

Place_Keyword: Kaniksu National Forest

Place_Keyword: Wenatchee National Forest

Place_Keyword: Chelan County

Place_Keyword: Kittitas County

Place_Keyword: Yakima County

Place_Keyword: Whatcom County

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints:

This digital database is not meant to be used or displayed at

any scale larger than 1:24,000. The user may need to contact the local

Forest Service office for updates on Plans of Operation or

Notices of Intention.

Any hardcopies utilizing these data sets shall clearly indicate

their source. If the user has modified the data in any way

they are obligated to describe the types of modifications they

have performed on the hardcopy map. User specifically agrees

not to misrepresent these data sets, nor to imply that changes they

made were approved by the U.S. Geological Survey.

These data are not meant to be displayed at any scale larger than

1:24,000 (e.g., 1:12,000 or 1:2,000).

Data_Set_Credit:

David Boleneus compiled the data in digital form from U.S. Forest

Service files. Compilation included removal of duplicate records

and verifying latitude-longitude location. Points of latitude-longitude
are located to the

center of the nearest section and were calculated from

Township-Range-Section data using the freeware script \"trs2ll\" (M.

Wefald, written commun.).

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David E. Boleneus

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 904 W. Riverside Ave., Rm. 202

City: Spokane

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 99201

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-509-368-3100

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-509-368-3199

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dboleneu@usgs.gov

Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS Excel 97 for Win95

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Attribute accuracy was verified by manual comparison of location of

Plan of Operation or Notice of Intent obtained from US Forest

Service files, where possible. Attribute accuracy was not verified

on the the ground.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Point data is given in latitude and longitude

(decimal degrees).

Completeness_Report:

This digital dataset was produced from unpublished U.S. Forest

Service files and is considered to be a unique mineral resource

dataset for the area.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The horizontal positional accuracy for the digital data was checked

against the original file data. Latitude-longitude points were

calculated from Township-Range-Section given in U.S. Forest Service

files. The accuracy of the file data was accepted and were not

checked on the ground. Points of latitude-longitude are located to the

center of the nearest section and were calculated from

Township-Range-Section data using the freeware script \"trs2ll\" (M.

Wefald, written commun.). The area of each permit may occupy a larger
area

than depicted by the point location represented by the latitude and
longitude location.

The point location occurs somewhere within the boundaries of the larger
area represented

by the entire permit area boundary.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: US Geolgical Survey Open-File Services, Denver, CO or USGS
URL:

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/of99-414

Publication_Date: 1999

Title: Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in northeast

Washington\--3. Minerals-related permits on national forests, 1967

to 1998

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: data in spreadsheet format

Type_of_Source_Media: floppy diskette

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1998

Source_Currentness_Reference:

data information was extracted for

this report during 1998 from Forest Service files in Colville,

Kaniksu, Okanogan, and Wenatchee National Forests

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: US Geological Survey, 1999

Source_Contribution: location and attributes of sites

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: USFS

Publication_Date: unpublished

Title: unpublished data from US Forest Service files

Type_of_Source_Media: paper files consisting of text dating to as old as
1967.

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 1998

Source_Currentness_Reference:

date information was extracted for

this report

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: US Forest Service unpublished data

Source_Contribution:

U.S. Forest Service contributed files compiled by various district

employees responsible for minerals activity on forest lands in the

district and allowed author access to the files for compiling data.

These files were the sole source of data in this report.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Data were collected from USFS files and allocated to various fields

(categories) in an Excel 97 spreadsheet. Categories of data are

given in the description of Table 1 in Open-File Report 99-414

(Boleneus, 1999) at

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/of99-414.html.

Process_Date: January 1998 to December 1998

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 366 points

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 1

Longitude_Resolution: 1

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The data set for \"Geologic datasets for weights of evidence

analysis in northeast Washington\--3. Minerals-related permits on

national forests, 1967 to 1998\" consists of one Excel 97

workbook, \"of99-414.xls\", which is displayed as Table 1 in the

OFR text.

Definitions of fields in the \"of99-414.xls\" sheet in the

workbook are given below:

Permit number\--Plan or notice number (as designated by this

report)

Type\--Plan or Notice

Forest\--Name of forest containing plan or

notice

Company\--Name of applicant or company conducting the work

Primary commodity\--Primary commodity (e.g. Au, Ag, Pb\...)

All commodities\--All commodities given as object of plan or notice

Latitude\--Latitude of point at center of nearest section

Longitude\--Longitude of point at center of nearest section

Purpose\--Purpose of plan or notice assigned by applicant

Project\--Project name assigned by applicant

Start year\--First year permit was issued

End year\--Last year permit was issued

District\--Forest district where permit is located

Local no.\--Tracking number used by U.S. Forest Service

Region\--U.S. Forest Service region number

State\--State

Township\--Township number (N) in Washington (Willamette meridian)

Range\--Range number (E) in Washington (Willamette meridian)

Assumed section\--Section arbitrarily decided as centroid from

which the latitude and longitude were calculated using the

freeware script, \"trs2ll\" (M.Wefald, written commun.)

All Sections\--Sections within the township-range containing plan

or notice

Subdivision\--Subdivision of section, when available

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

See Open-File Report 99-414, available on-line at

http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-414/of99-414.html

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Information Services

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Open-File Reports, Box 25286

City: Denver

State_or_Province: CO

Postal_Code: 80225

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-303-202-4200

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: David E. Boleneus

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Position: geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 904 West Riverside, Rm. 202

City: Spokane

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 99201

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-509-368-3100

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-509-368-3199

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dboleneu@usgs.gov

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey - Earth Science Information

Office

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 904 West Riverside, Rm. 135

City: Spokane

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 99201

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-509-368-3130

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-509-368-3194

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: esnfic@mailmcan1.wr.usgs.gov

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Pacific time zone

Distribution_Liability:

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides these geographic data

\"as is.\" The USGS makes no guarantee or warranty concerning the

accuracy of information contained in the geographic data. The USGS

further makes no warranties, either expressed or implied as to any

other matter whatsoever, including, without limitation, the

condition of the product, or its fitness for any particular

purpose. The burden for determining fitness for use lies entirely

with the user. Although these data have been processed

successfully on computers at the USGS, no warranty, expressed or

implied, is made by the USGS regarding the use of these data on any

other system, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply

any such warranty.

In no event shall the USGS have any liability whatsoever for

payment of any consequential, incidental, indirect, special, or

tort damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, any loss

of profits arising out of use of or reliance on the geographic data

or arising out of the delivery, installation, operation, or support

by USGS.

These data are not meant to be displayed at any scale larger than

1:24,000 (e.g., 1:12,000 or 1:2,000),

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 19991008

Metadata_Review_Date:

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Person: David E. Boleneus

Contact_Position: geologist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 904 West Riverside Avenue, Rm. 202

City: Spokane

State_or_Province: WA

Postal_Code: 99201

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-509-368-3100

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 1-509-368-3199

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dboleneu@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial
Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

[^1]: Spokane, Washington

[^2]: as defined in Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part
    200

[^3]: as defined in Title 36, CFR, Part 219

[^4]: as defined in Title 36, CFR, Part 228

[^5]: 36CFR Part 228.4