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and shall have the same status as an order bearing an allotment number jjnder all applicable CMP regulations unless otherwise expressly provided. Such allotment number or symbol shall constitute an “allotment number or symbol” for the purposes of CMP Reg­ulation 3. (3) Aluminum required by a producer for use in construction approved under paragraph (e) (2) hereof or for use in maintenance, repair or as operating supplies may be obtained: (i) On specific application to the War Production Board, Office of War Utili­ties, Washington, D. C., Ref. U-l, or 5 <ii) In amounts not exceeding 100 pounds per quarter as provided for in CMP Regulation 5 or (iii) If delivery is to be from another producer, by placing an order rated in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (e) of this order. (e) Application and extension of'rat­ings; application of CMP allotment symbol—(1) Certification, (i) The rat­ings assigned by paragraph (b) (1) of this order and the CMP allotment symbol MRO-U may be applied by a producer to deliveries of material, in­cluding controlled material, Class A products, Class B products, and other products or material, for use in main­tenance, repair, or as operating supplies only by use of a certification in sub­stantially the following form (in lieu of the endorsements specified in Priori-, ties Regulation 3 and CMP Regulation 5), Except that no preference rating need be applied to an order to be placed with a controlled material producer: Preference Rating AA-1, CMP Allotment Symbol MRO-V. The undersigned pur­chaser certifies, subject to the penalties of section 35 (A) of the Urfited States Crimi­nal Code, to the seller and to the War Pro­duction Board, that, to the best of his Knowledge and belief, the undersigned is authorized under applicable War Produc­tion Board regulations or orders to place this delivery order, to receive the item(s) ordered for the purpose for which ordered, and to use any preference rating or allot­ment number or symbol which the under­signed has placed on this order. Such certification shall be signed manually or as provided in Priorities Regulation No. 7. (ii) The ratings assigned by para­graph (b) (2) of this order may be ap­plied by a producer to deliveries of material, including controlled material, Class A products, Class B products, and other products or material, for use in construction to serve rated projects or equipment, by use of the certification provided in Priorities Regulation 3, as amended, Except that no preference rating need be applied to an order to be placed with a controlled material producer and Provided: (a) That approval for such construc­tion has been granted pursuant to par­agraph (e) (2) hereof; and (b) That the CMP allotment number assigned, upon approval of the con­struction pursuant to paragraph (e) (2), to deliveries of controlled material to be used in such construction by the producer is indicated on all rated orders. (2) In addition to the requirements of paragraph (e) (1), a producer, in order to apply the preference ratings assigned by paragraph (b) (2), or to segregate material from inventory for the uses described in such paragraph, or to ac­cept delivery of material for such uses, must, unless otherwise directed, com­municate with the Office of War Util­ities, War Production Board, Washing­ton, D. C., Ref.: U-l, supplying in detail the following information or such other information as may from time to time be required: (i) The producer’s job number relat­ing to the proposed construction. (ii) A description of the project or equipment to be served, including the lo­cation, an estimate of peak load and con­sumption, as well as other pertinent in­formation. (iii) A description of the proposed utility construction including a print of line construction showing size of conduc­tor or pipe, capacity of transformers, pumps, compressors, tanks, holders, and other equipment, the location of hy­drants and important control valves, as well as other information relevant there­to. <iv) A statement of relationship to military needs, war production, public health or safety. (v) A copy of the customer’s project or equipment preference rating order or certificate. (Such copies of orders or certificates are not required when utili­ties’ applications accompany the cus­tomer’s project application.) (vi) ; A statement explaining whether service can be rendered in any other way, or by any other producer, with the use of smaller quantities of '?Htical mate­rials. (vii) An estimate of the total cost of the producer’s project. (viii) A list of materials required for the construction, giving the estimated weight of each material with -the esti­mated cost, classified as indicated in the instructions for revised Form PD-200. (Such list should indicate materials in inventory not to be replaced, materials to be purchased from the excess stocks of other producers, materials to be obtained or replaced without priorities assistance, and materials expected to be obtained or replaced with priorities assistance.) (ix) The dates when deliveries of con­trolled material as specified on Form CMP-4C are required to meet the con­struction schedule, and the quantities of controlled material needed during each calendar quarter, excluding, however, controlled material to be obtained from other U-l producers. The War Production Board will notify the producer whether and to what extent the application is approved and no pro­ducer shall apply such preference ratings, segregate material from inventory for the uses described in paragraph (b) (2), or accept delivery of material for such uses without such approval. (3) The ratings assigned by this or­der may be extended by a supplier in the manner provided in Priorities Regulation > No. 3, and CMP Regulation 3. ? (4) An order for material, other than controlled material, bearing a rating as­signed or extended in accordance with this paragraph (e) and a CMP allotment number or symbol shall have the same status as a rated order bearing a CMP allotment number under all applicable CMP regulations. Such number or sym­bol shall constitute an “allotment num­ber or symbol” for the purposes of CMP Regulation 3. (f) Restrictions on deliveries, inven­tory, and withdrawals—(1) Scheduling deliveries. No producer shall, in placing orders, schedule for delivery to him in any calendar quarterly period any ma­terial (whether or not rated pursuant to this order) to be used for maintenance, repair, as operating supplies, or for any other purpose (except material to be seg­regated for use in additions and expan­sions specifically authorized under para­graph (e) <2) of this order, or by ah op­erative order in the P-19 series, or by an operative preference rating certificate), the aggregate dollar value of which shall exceed one-third of the aggregate dollar value of withdrawals of material of the same class from inventory for such uses during the last nine months of 1942. (2) Accepting deliveries; inventory re­strictions. No producer shall at any time accept any delivery of material (whether or not rated pursuant to this order) to be used for maintenance, repair, as oper­ating supplies, or for any other purpose (except material to be segregated for use in additions and expansions specifi­cally authorized under paragraph <e) (2) of this order, or by an operative order in the P-19 series, or by an operative pref­erence rating certificate), if the pro­ducer’s inventory of material in the same class is, or will by virtue of such accept­ance become in excess of a practical working minimum. The value of such practical working minimum inventory shall in no case exceed: (i) For material in the following classes—transmission and distribution, meters, house regulators, and (in the case of electric power producers) wire, cable, and bus bar, as well as wood poles and cross arms—four-thirds of the ag­gregate dollar value of items of material of the same class withdrawn from in­ventory for use in maintenance, repair, and as operating supplies during the last nine months of 1942; (ii) For material in the following classes—source of supply, reservoirs, ele­vated and pressure tanks, pumping and booster stations, (excluding fuel)', gen­erating station (other than fuel), pro­duction and pumping station (excluding fuel)—the aggregate dollar value of items of material of the same class in inventory on the most recent date during the calendar year 1940 on which the producer’s inventory was taken, plus an amount proportionate to the increase in GPO— War Board 571)8—1>. - system output in the twelve months’ pe­riod preceding the current quarter over ‘the system output in the calendar year 1940. (iii) For material in the switching and substation class, the aggregate dollar value of items of material of the same class in inventory on the most. recent date during the calendar year 1940 on which the producer’s inventory was taken; (iv) For every other class of material except the classes specified in paragraph (f) (7), two-thirds of the aggregate dol­lar value of material of the same class withdrawn from inventory for use in maintenance, repair, and as operating supplies during the last nine months of 1942. (3) Withdrawals. No producer shall, during any calendar quarterly period, make withdrawals from inventory of material to be used for maintenance, re­pair, as operating supplies or for any other purpose (except material to be sold or to be segregated for use in additions and expansions specifically authorized under paragraph (e) (2) of this order, or by an operative order in the P-19 series, or by an operative preference rat­ing certificate), the aggregate dollar value of which shall exceed one-third of the aggregate dollar value of withdrawals of material of the same class from in­ventory for such uses during the last nine months of 1942. (4) Exceptions. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (f) (i),, (2) and 3: (I)-A producer may, in any calendar quarterly period, increase scheduled de­liveries and withdrawals of material in any of the classes named in paragraph (f) (2) (ii), over the limits prescribed in paragraphs (f)(1) and (f) (3) respec­tively, proportionately to the increase in system output in the twelve months’ pe­riod preceding the current quarter over the system output in the calendar year 1940. (ii) A producer may make withdraw­als from inventory of consumer’s meters or house-regulators in any calendar quarterly period in an amount not in excess of one-third of the number of such meters or house-regulators con­demned and destroyed by the producer in the last nine months of 1942, plus the number of meters and house-regulators necessary to serve the net increase in customers occurring in the current quarter. For the purposes of this sub- paragraph, withdrawals of meters and house-regulators shall not include me­ters or house-regulators put in service to replace meters and house-regulators removed from service; (iii) A producer may in any calendar quarterly period schedule for delivery or make withdrawals from inventory of, material necessary for the maintenance of repair of the producer’s property or equipment which is damaged by acts of the public enemy, sabotagej explosion, fire, flood, and storm .or similar climatic conditions: Provided, That if the re­strictions of paragraphs (f) (1) and (3) are exceeded because of the scheduling of such deliveries, or because of such withdrawals, a full report thereof to­gether with reasons therefor shall be made immediately to the War Production Board. (iv) A producer may in any calendar quarterly period schedule for delivery material in any class having in the ag­gregate a dollar value not more than the dollar value of material of the same class taken from the producer’s inventory for delivery to other persons authorized to accept delivery under applicable regula­tions of the War Production Board but only if, and to the extent that, such tak­ing has reduced the producer’s inven­tory of material of the same class below a practical working minimum; and (v) A producer may in any calendar quarterly period withdraw from inven­tory material in any class having in the aggregate a dollar value not more than the dollar value of usable material of the same class salvaged from plant dur­ing the current calendar quarterly period. (vi) A producer, in order to provide for seasonal-requirements of material for the maintenance, repair and operation of his system, may in any calendar quarterly period increase the dollar value of ma­terials withdrawn for these purposes in any calendar quarter, provided that ad­justments are made in withdrawals in other calendar quarters of the same cal­endar year to the extent that the total value of materials withdrawn during that calendar year do not exceed the amounts permissible to have been with­drawn during that calendar year under the terms of this order and of former Preference Rating Order P-46, as they may apply. (vii) A producer supplying water may in any calendar quarterly period sched- ule for delivery and withdraw from in­ventory material in Class 5 (as defined in Water Utilities Material Classifica­tion, Schedule A of this order), to be used for maintenance, repair, and as op­erating supplies, having in the aggre­gate a dollar value not greater than 60 per cent of the aggregate dollar value of withdrawals of items of material in the same class during the corresponding calendar quarterly period of 1940, and no such producer shall be entitled to the quotas for scheduled deliveries and with­drawals established for Class 5 by para­graphs (f)(1) and (3). . - (viii) The value of practical working minimum inventory in glass 5 (as de­fined in Water Utilities Material Classi­fication, Schedule A of this order) shall be, in the case of a producer supplying water, 60 per cent of the!aggregate' dol­lar value of items of material of the same class in inventory on the most recent date’1 during the Calendar'year 1940 on which the producer’s’ inventory was taken. (5) Short item deliveries. Notwith­standing the provisions of paragraph (f) (2), in cases where the inventory of a class of material exceeds a practical working minimum, a producer may ac­cept deliveries of any short item within such class which is required for use in maintenance, repair, or as operating supplies; (i) Provided, That all material in all classes of inventory in excess of a prac­tical working minimum is: (a) Continuously recorded as excess on records kept by the producer for that purpose, (b) Continuously neld for sale to financially responsible persons and agencies authorized (under applicable regulations issued by the War Produc­tion Board) to accept delivery thereof; and (c) Reported to the War Production Board, when requested by the War Pro­duction Board, on Form WPB-921 A, B, or C, to the extent required by such form, or in such other manner as the War Pro­duction Board may prescribe, subject to the approval of the Bureau of the Budget in accordance with the Federal Reports Act of 1942, and (ii) Further provided that material transferred from excess to practical working minimum inventory on the rec­ords of a producer or used from excess inventory is recorded as a scheduled de­livery under paragraph (f) (1); that is, that in any calendar quarterly period the aggregate dollar value of material in any class transferred on the producer’s records from that portion of inventory which is separately accounted for as excess pursuant to this paragraph (f) (5) to practical working minimum in­ventory, or of material taken directly from such portion of inventory for use in maintenance, repair, or as operating supplies, plus the aggregate dollar value of short item deliveries in such class, does not exceed one-third of the aggre­gate dollar value of withdrawals of material of the same class from inven-. tory for such uses during the last nine months of 1942. (6) The War Production Board, on its own motion or on the application of any producer, may modify the limitations on practical working minimum inventory, on scheduling or accepting deliveries, or on making withdrawals set forth in this paragraph (f). (7) The provisions of paragraphs (f) (1), (f) (2), and (f) (3) shall not ap­ply to fuel, water purification material (excluding equipment), and gas chem­ical material and supplies. (g) Controlled material to be used in construction. . (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any preference rating cer­tificate or other order, except a direc­tion referring specifically to this para­graph (g), no producer shall schedule for delivery or accept delivery of any controlled material named in, and in the form indicated in, Schedule B pf this order fbr^use in construction if his usable stocks of such controlled material are, or will by virtue of such scheduling or ac- GPO— War Board 5798— p. 3