Update of the BLM Wyoming Minimum Price List for Forest and Vegetative Products, Management of the 9120 Road Maintenance Account, and Forest Products Special Stipulations
United States Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Wyoming State Office
P.O. Box 1828 Cheyenne, Wyoming 82009-1828
October 16, 2019
EMS TRANSMISSION: 10/17/2019
Instruction Memorandum No. WY-2020-003
Expires: 09/30/2023
To: District Managers
Attention: District/Zone Foresters
From: Associate State Director
Subject: Update of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming Minimum Price List for Forest and Vegetative Products, Management of the 9120 Road Maintenance Account, and Forest Products Special Stipulations
Program Area: Forestry
Purpose: This minimum forest and vegetative product price list updates and replaces the BLM Wyoming Instruction Memorandum (IM) No. WY-2016-015. The list shows both hundred cubic feet (CCF) and thousand board feet (MBF) pricing schemes along with their average conversion factors. A minimum pricing schedule is included for all Special Forest Products (SFP) sales, both personal and commercial. This IM also establishes a standard BLM Wyoming Forest Product Cutting Permit Special Provisions to be included with each Personal Use Vegetative Cash Sale Contract (Form 5450-24). Direction is given for managing the 9120 Road Maintenance Account.
Administrative or Mission Related: Mission Related
Policy/Action: The prices shown in Attachment 1 are minimum prices for forest product sales. Fair market value must be determined, as required by regulation, by accepted appraisal methods. However, where it is determined that fair market value is less than the minimum product price shown on the attached list, the product can be sold for less than the minimum product price.
Authorized Officers may use the minimum price listing schedule as a basis to sell forest products when no market data exists to conduct an appraisal. Appraisal information must be documented in the official case file for the project.
The SFP sales will utilize the 5450-24 electronic format unless special circumstances dictate otherwise. This is a cash sale contract and must be paid in full prior to issuance of the contract.
The 9120 Road Maintenance Subactivity funds are derived from the sale of forest products and are to be used only for the repair or maintenance of roads that service forest product harvest areas. The distribution of this subactivity has changed; now, funds earned by a Field Office during each Fiscal Year will be pushed out to the office for their use during the first quarter of the next Fiscal Year. Funds earned by Field Offices in all previous Fiscal Years that have not been expended will be swept at the end of each Fiscal Year and will be pushed back to the offices that have earned them at the same time as the funds earned in the previous year are pushed.
The Authorized Officer will determine when it is appropriate to collect road maintenance fees on sales of forest or vegetative products. When collected, the minimum road maintenance fee will be 20 percent of the total value of the product(s) being sold. This figure will be rounded to the nearest whole dollar. Fees collected for road maintenance will be deposited to the 9120 account.
Each personal use purchaser of a Vegetative Sale permit will sign the attached Forest Product Cutting Permit Special Provisions document. A copy will be filed with the Field Office copy of the 5450-24 form. The person purchasing the permit will have a signed copy of these Special Provisions in their possession when gathering forest products on the BLM lands covered under the permit. All purchasers will be issued SFP load tickets which must be affixed to the SFP before being transported.
Timeframe: Effective immediately.
Budget Impact: No impact to budget is anticipated.
Background: The existing price list is from 2016 and the IM is expiring. This IM reflects new prices and continues the standardized statewide special provisions stipulation document to the vegetative sales permit process.
Manual/Handbook Sections Affected: 43 CFR Subpart 5400 – Sales of Forest Products and 43 CFR 8365.1-5 Property and Resources. This IM provides for establishment of a minimum acceptable price schedule for commonly used forest products from Wyoming Forest and Range Lands. This also replaces the February 1994 Wyoming Supplement to the H-5420 – Preparation for Sale, Release 5-17, Forest Products Standards and Minimum Price List.
Coordination: This IM was coordinated with the Botany Program, the Districts and the Field Foresters.
Contact: If you have questions pertaining to the sale of forest products please contact
Joshua Jackson, Forestry Program Lead at (307) 775-6287.
Signed by: Authenticated by:
Lori Armstrong Jessica Camargo
Acting Associate State Director State Director’s Office
2 Attachments:
1- BLM Wyoming Forest/Vegetative Product Minimum Price List, October 2019 (3 pp)
2- Forest Product Personal Use Cutting Permit Special Provisions (2 pp)
Distribution:
Director (WO-200), 1849 C Street NW 1 w/atch.
CF 1 w/atch.