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"Armed Forces Reserve Center." Separate identification may be indicated for the exclusive-use space occupied therein by the respective components.

(2) Nonarmory facility—(i) Administrative and logistic support facility. E.g., field maintenance shop, warehouse, office, and such other type structures.

(ii) Training support facility. E.g., aviation facility, weekend training site, range, active duty training site, ships operating facility, and such other related facilities.

(b) Reserve structure. The organization of a reserve component, as authorized by the Secretary of Defense, with a planned manning level approved by the military department secretary concerned, of participating personnel in paid status, to meet approved mobilization requirements.

(c) Authorized strength. The planned manning level, approved by the military department secretary concerned, of personnel in pay groups A, B and C, DOD Directive 1215.6 (Part 102 of this chapter).

(d) Program. A plan for the acquisition of additional facilities and/or replacement of existing facilities by purchase, transfer and construction, and for the expansion, rehabilitation, conversion and equipping of such facilities.

(1) Long range program. A Program, correlated and in consonance with the latest approved update of the Five-Year Defense Program, DoD Directive 7045.11 and DoD Instruction 7045.3 1 composed of projects by location, type and size of facility, and estimated cost, encompassing all foreseeable requirement, and indicating the projects for which it is contemplated that authorization will be requested in the annual program of each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years; to be listed alphabetically by State and location therein, preceded by a summary page showing the numbers of projects and aggregate estimated costs for each year of the 5-year program period plus the residual no-year increment.

(2) Annual program. A single fiscal year increment of the Long-Range Program, supported by justification data as specified on DD Forms 1390, 1390s and 13912 and by the certifications required by DoD Instruction 1200.10. 1

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(e) Metropolitan plan. A plan developed by each component, and coordinated among the military departments, for urban areas (100,000 or more population) in which facilities have been or will be programed, to provide for multiple installations in order to insure the maximum reserve training accessibility to obligated reservists and the minimum inconvenience to community activities and civilian pursuits.

(f) Criteria. Standards developed by the respective military departments and approved by the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics) or his designee for each type facility, expected to be repetitive in nature, included in the programs of the military departments. These standards include functional space allowances and construction (quality) guidance.

(g) Unit. Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority such as a table of organization and equipment.

(a) General. Those facilities will be provided which are essential for the proper development, training, operation, support (including troop housing and messing) and maintenance of the reserve components to meet approved mobilization requirements for units in the Reserve Structures and/or individual reservists with specific mobilization assignments. All proposed projects for the reserve components, involving the use of authority contained in Chapter 133, Title 10, U.S.C. as amended in excess of $25,000 for any one project or location, except projects not in excess of $50,000 for the restoration of damage, shall be submitted to the ASD (I&L) or his designee for approval, and for notification of the Congress as required in compliance with 10 U.S.C. 2233a as amended. No project shall be incremented in order to circumvent this limitation. Any subsequent increase in the estimated cost of a project exceeding 15 percent over the cost as initially approved shall be submitted with justification for appropriate adjustment of the approval and notification of the Congress prior to award of the construction contract; project cost increases not exceeding 15 percent may be approved by competent authority within the military departments; all such increases, however, must be within the approved total program authorization available.

(b) Specific-(1) Programs. Annual and updated long-range programs for each reserve component shall be submitted to the ASD (I&L) or his designee by the respective military departments annually by 1 October or such earlier date as they may be called for in order to accord with annual legislative and budgetary schedules.

(2) Requirements. As a basis for the annual reexamination of the total requirements for inactive duty training facilities, the total of the authorized strengths as defined in § 246.3 (c) for all units and/or locations of each reserve component may not exceed 110 percent of the approved annual projections for budget purposes of the total of pay groups A, B and C. The added 10 percent is intended to provide a reasonable degree of flexibility in the overall planning of the utilization of these facilities, but is not intended to be used for the express purpose of increasing the allowable size of a specific facility or creating a requirement for the purchase or construction of a facility at a location which otherwise would not be eligible therefor.

(3) Methods for acquisition of reserve forces facilities. In fulfilling facilities requirements, the following methods shall be considered in the order of preference listed, and that method selected which will satisfactorily meet the requirement in the most economical manner on a long-range basis, the purpose being to provide facilities suitable and adequate for the training mission and its attendant supporting activities:

(i) Utilization of existing facilities which are not being fully utilized, including facilities of the other reserve components, and the active armed forces.

(ii) Utilization of real property excess to the needs of any of the military departments or other Federal agencies, by transfer, use agreement, or permit.

(iii) Lease or donation of privately owned or publicly owned space which can fill, or can be modified at reasonable cost to meet the requirement.

(iv) Construction of additions to existing facilities of the reserve components or regular forces, or on property already controlled by them, with provision for maximum joint or common use of existing space and facilities.

(v) Purchase of existing real property suitable for the purpose without uneconomical remodeling or renovation.

(vi) Construction of a new facility by

two or more reserve components as a joint venture. If such construction at a single location cannot be accomplished concurrently because of unreconcilable disparity in priorities or for other cogent reason, provision will be made in the design and siting of the inital structure for later expansion.

(vii) Unilateral construction of a new facility by a single component, this method to be resorted to only after all of the above methods have been carefully examined and found to be impractical or uneconomical.

(4) Joint facilities. The military departments shall accomplish joint acquisition and/or use to the maximum extent practicable, and, for each proposed armory-type facility, shall furnish factual justification to support their conclusion that joint facilities are not practicable. Military department programs will be coordinated at the departmental level for the joint acquisition/use aspect, prior to submission to the ASD (I&L) or his designee. As a general principle, the host service (service having the majority interest in the facility) will program all costs for acquisition to meet minimum requirements of that service. The tenant service (service having a minority interest in the facility) will program all costs for acquisition, as well as additional utilities and mechanical service, required in excess of that required by the host service. Within the provisions of DoD Directive 5100.10 (27 F.R. 8630) the ASD (I&L) or his designee may require such adjustments in project priorities and scope, host/tenant relationships, and sharing of project costs as may be deemed essential to achieve the practicable maximum of joint utilization of facilities.

(5) Projects. (i) Armory and nonarmory projects will be consolidated at a single location to the extent feasible. (ii) Facilities acquired for equal or principal use of the active forces will be programed by the active forces.

(iii) Facilities acquired for sole or principal use of the reserve components will be programed by the reserve components.

(iv) As provided in Chapter 133, Title 10, U.S.C., as amended, Federal contributions to the States, and Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia for the expansion, rehabilitation or conversion of existing armory facilities made necessary by the conversion, redesignation or

reorganization of units of the Army National Guard of the United States, may be at 100 percent of the cost involved, upon determination by the ASD (I&L) or his designee of such necessity.

(v) The size of each facility to be constructed shall be based generally upon authorized strength in units and/or individuals together with the quantity and type of equipment and supplies required for proper training in the facility, in consonance with space and facilities criteria approved or established by the ASD (I&L) or his designee. Facilities acquired for reserve component use, other than by construction shall adhere to such criteria as closely as may be practicable, consistent with the physical characteristics of existing structures.

(vi) Dispossession. Whenever it becomes necessary for the regular military forces to dispossess or relocate permanently housed units of the reserve components which are not mobilized, the dispossessing agency shall provide for replacement facilities equal to those from which dispossessed, or otherwise provide facilities acceptable to the department having cognizance over such dispossessed reserve component unit(s), which will meet approved space requirements, including storage, so as not to impede the execution of training programs. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in the case of the dispossessing of a tenant unit which has been permitted use of space specifically on a temporary or interim basis pending acquisition by that tenant of exclusive or sole-use space.

(vii) Armory projects. (a) Maximum utilization of armories shall be effected consistent with preservation of unit integrity. In the interest of optimum utilization, training at multiple-unit locations should be spread over a period of four nights per week or four weekends per month where local conditions and efficient administration of the training program make this practicable and economical.

(b) Each military department, in planning its armory program, shall establish an authorized strength for each existing and/or programed armory. The facilities requirement at any location will be based upon such authorized strength, as specified in § 246.4 (b) (2). An armory project may be programed when the actual strength is 50 percent of authorized strength or design capacity of the proposed armory. Construction

will not be started until the actual strength is a minimum of 75 percent of authorized strength or design capacity of the proposed armory.

(c) Armories will not be acquired by purchase and/or construction at Federal expense at a location which has a unilateral actual strength of less than 55, or a combined (joint) actual strength of less than 100. Requirements for units of lesser strength will be justified on an individual basis under the provisions of § 246.6.

(viii) Nonarmory projects. Administrative and logistic support facilities will be consolidated with training support facilities to the extent practicable.

(ix) Types of construction. New facilities for the reserve components will be permanent-type construction except (a) facilities at "weekend" and "summer” training sites, and (b) facilities considered essential for functions for which the long-range need may be uncertain, in which cases the quality and scope of construction will be held to a level consistent with the certainty of the requirement. Facilities which serve a combination of inactive duty training and "summer training" may be of permanent-type construction when so justified and approved for each specific project. Standardized plans, specifications, space criteria and construction standards shall be devised and used to the maximum extent practicable in the acquisition of facilities for the reserve components with Federal funds. Such standardized plans and specifications, or corresponding space criteria and construction standards, shall be submitted to and approved by the ASD (I&L) or his designee prior to their acceptance as standards, and necessary exceptions thereto similarly shall be submitted and approved.

(x) Site plans or master plans. For all projects other than armories and training centers, there shall be submitted with the project proposal one copy of the site plan or master plan of the installation clearly depicting the proposed project(s) in relation to existing and projected facilities at the installations.

§ 246.5 Projects not exceeding $50,000,

minor construction, restoration of damaged facilities, and repair of facilities.

(a) (1) Projects not exceeding $50,000. No project the cost of which exceeds $25,000 shall be undertaken unless approved in advance by the ASD (I&L) or

his designee, and a project costing more than $10,000 must be approved in advance by the Secretary of a military department or his designee who shall not be below the Office of an Assistant Secretary or the department concerned. Projects approved within these limits must not exceed applicable established criteria nor consist of repetitive types of facilities for which criteria have not been established as provided in § 246.4(b) (5) (ix). The justification of construction projects not exceeding $50,000 submitted to the ASD (I&L) or his designee, shall provide the same informational, technical and cost data as is required for major construction projects, together with affirmation of the non-availability of existing facilities capable of fulfilling the respective requirements.

(2) Minor construction. The term "minor construction" shall be applied to projects for the Reserve Forces not exceeding $50,000 in cost which are to be accomplished under the exemption provided by 10 U.S.C. 2233a, unless they are to be accomplished utilizing the lump sum construction authorizations provided for the respective Reserve Forces by the annual Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Acts, in which case the term "minor construction" does not apply thereto.

(b) Restoration of damaged facilities. No project for the restoration of damaged facilities the cost of which exceeds $50,000 may be undertaken unless approved in advance by the ASD (I&L) or his designee, and no such project the cost of which exceeds $25,000 may be undertaken unless approved by the Secretary of a military department or his designee. Such projects which exceed $50,000 normally shall be accomplished within available lump sum authorizations provided by the annual Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Acts. The content of the justification submitted for projects for restoration of damaged facilities should be as prescribed in § 246.5(a) (2), and in addition, statements should be made assuring that (1) the projects are in fact restorations or replacements of facilities that have been damaged, (2) no increased scope will be realized, (3) the quality of construction proposed is comparable with that originally damaged or destroyed, allowing however for improved materials and equipment to conform with current design practice and to minimize the possibility of future damage, and (4) the quantitative and qualitative cri

teria in accordance with § 246.4 (b) (5) (ix).

(c) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, essential projects not exceeding $25,000 in cost may be accomplished from funds available for maintenance and operation, under the provisions of 10 U.S.C. 2233a (2) when the project requests and approvals so specify.

(d) Subject to the fiscal limitations otherwise prescribed by competent authority, projects which under the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section do not require prior approval by the ASD (I&L) or his designee are considered to become "approved facilities" within the provisions of paragraph I.C. of DoD Directive 5100.10 (27 F.R. 8630) at such time as said projects are authorized by a Secretary of a military department or his designee, provided each such project authorization contains a determination that the project does not involve a change in the number of units or reduce the joint utilization potential of a facility in contravention of 10 U.S.C. 2234. Any such project for which this determination cannot be made at the military department level shall be submitted to the ASD (I&L) or his designee.

(e) Repair of facilities. Projects for repair of facilities as defined in DoD Directive 7040.21 will be accomplished under the Operation and Maintenance programs and no such project the cost of which exceeds $50,000 or 50 percent of the estimated cost of complete replacement of the facility shall be undertaken unless approved in advance by the ASD (I&L) or his designee. At the time of submission of requests for apportionment of funds for the Operation and Maintenance program, justifications for projects within the program which require approval pursuant to provisions of this part will be provided for review, to the extent then available. These justifications shall include sufficient descriptive, technical and cost data to validate the requirement and support the urgency of the project. Projects for which the justifications were not available, or the requirement was not known, at the time of the request for apportionment, sub

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sequently shall be submitted to the ASD (I&L) or his designee for approval prior to initiation of the projects. The ASD (I&L) or his designee shall furnish to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) or his designee appropriate recommendations concerning the projects. § 246.6 Exceptions.

Exceptions to the provisions of this part may be granted by the ASD (I&L) or his designee when such exceptions are conclusively demonstrated by the military departments to be essential at a specific location.

(a) Telephones installed on DoD installations and connected to a DoD switchboard are designated as follows:

(1) Class A (Official). Telephones which are authorized for the transaction of official business of the Government on DoD installations and require access to commercial telephone company central office and toll trunks for the proper conduct of official business.

(2) Class B (Unofficial). Telephones which are installed within, or in the immediate vicinity of DoD activities and are connected to DoD switchboards for unofficial use are further designated as follows:

(i) B-1 telephones installed in Government owned or leased quarters assigned for family or personal use in lieu of basic allowance for quarters and located within, or in the immediate vicinity of a DoD activity.

(ii) B-2 telephones installed for the use of public schools, the American Red Cross and other quasi-Government agencies such as the Service Motion Picture Services, Service Exchanges, Federal Credit Unions, and NCO and Officers' Messes located on a DoD installation.

(iii) B-3 telephones installed for commercial contractors, concessionaires and other business firms operating within, or in the immediate vicinity of a DoD activity.

(iv) B-4 telephones installed in private or rental housing located within, or in the immediate vicinity of a DoD activity.

(v) When either party line service or restricted service that does not have access to central office and toll trunks is provided, such service may appear as a subdesignation of the above listed classes of unofficial telephone service.

(3) Class C (Official-Restricted). Telephones which are authorized for the transaction of official business of the Government on a DoD installation without access to telephone company central office or toll trunks.

(4) Class D (Oficial-Special). Telephones installed on a DoD installation for official business of the Government and restricted to special classes of service