Forest Service Renews Boring Form for Building on Federal Lands
Published Date: 4/16/2026
Notice
Summary
The Forest Service is keeping the SF-299 form for applying to build or maintain transportation, utility, and telecom stuff on federal lands—no changes, just an extension. If you use or plan to use federal lands for these projects, this affects you! They want your comments by June 15, 2026, but there’s no new cost or extra paperwork coming your way.
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SF-299 Form Kept Without Changes
The Forest Service is extending the currently approved SF-299 form (OMB No. 0596-0249) for applications to use National Forest System lands for transportation, utilities, telecommunications, and related facilities, without any revisions to the form. The agency estimates each response requires 8 hours, with about 2,753 respondents annually and a total annual respondent burden of 22,024 hours; comments on this extension are due June 15, 2026 and OMB approval expires January 31, 2027.
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