13 CFR § 121.508 - What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned Special Salvage Timber?
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t13/s121.508"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "13 CFR § 121.508 - What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned Special Salvage Timber?"
title_number: 13
title_name: "Business Credit and Assistance"
section_number: "121.508"
section_name: "What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned Special Salvage Timber?"
chapter_name: "SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION"
part_number: "121"
part_name: "SMALL BUSINESS SIZE REGULATIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "15 U.S.C. 632, 634(b)(6), 636(a)(36), 662, and 694a(9)."
regulatory_source: "61 FR 3286, Jan. 31, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "121"
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# 121.508 What are the size standards and other requirements for the purchase of Government-owned Special Salvage Timber?
(a) In order to purchase Government-owned Special Salvage Timber from the United States Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management as a small business, a concern must:
(1) Be primarily engaged in the logging or forest product industry;
(2) Have, together with its affiliates, no more than twenty-five employees during any pay period for the last twelve months; and
(3) If it does not intend at the time of offer to resell the timber—
(i) Agree that it will manufacture a significant portion of the logs with its own employees; and
(ii) Agree that it will log the timber only with its own employees or with employees of another business which is eligible for award of a Special Salvage Timber sales contract; or
(4) If it intends at the time of offer to resell the timber, agree that it will perform a significant portion of timber logging with its own employees and that it will subcontract the remainder of the timber logging to a concern which is eligible for award of a Special Salvage Timber sales contract.