# Sale and Disposal of National Forest System Timber; Timber Sale Contracts; Purchaser Elects Government Road Construction
> **Forest Service** · Direct Final rule. · Published 2006-01-04 · Effective 2006-03-06 · 71 FR 522
## Document
- **Document number:** 06-35
- **Category:** forest-service
- **Sub-agency:** Forest Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 71 FR 522
- **CFR reference:** 36 CFR 223
- **Publication date:** 2006-01-04
- **Effective date:** 2006-03-06
## Abstract

This direct final rule raises the total specified road construction cost threshold for a small business concern road election from $20,000 to $50,000. Congress raised the limit to $50,000 via the Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Pub. L. 105-277; Sec. 329(c)). The Supplemental Appropriations Act also eliminated the restriction, which precluded small business concerns in the State of Alaska from exercising the road election option. The Forest Service implemented this change upon passage of the law, and corrected agency handbook direction, but the CFR references to these minimum values were not changed. This direct final rule corrects this policy oversight. Obsolete references to purchaser credit are also being eliminated.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/01/04/06-35/sale-and-disposal-of-national-forest-system-timber-timber-sale-contracts-purchaser-elects-government)
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