Forest Service Renews Unchanged SF-299 Form for Federal Land Permits
Published Date: 4/16/2026
Notice
Summary
The Forest Service is keeping the SF-299 form, which folks use to apply for permission to build roads, utilities, or telecom stuff on federal land, just as it is—no changes! If you or your group need to use federal land for these projects, this affects you. They want your thoughts by June 15, 2026, but there’s no new cost or extra paperwork coming your way.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Form Used to Evaluate and Charge Where Applicable
The information collected on SF-299 is used to evaluate proposals, assess technical and financial capability, support environmental review, and to issue and administer special use authorizations. The Forest Service also uses the information to recover agency processing and monitoring costs where applicable.
SF-299 Remains Unchanged
The Forest Service is extending the SF-299 form without any changes, so if you apply to use federal land for roads, utilities, telecom, or facilities you will keep using the same form. The notice says there will be no new costs or extra paperwork coming from this extension.
Time Burden: 8 Hours Per Application
The Forest Service estimates each SF-299 response takes 8 hours to complete. The agency expects about 2,753 respondents annually, for an estimated total annual burden of 22,024 hours.
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