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s Part 4500— Pow er, W ater, Gas, and Central Steam H eat [Utilities Order U—1 as Amended Nov. 15, 1944| UTILITIES DEFINITIONS (a) Definitions. HOW TO OBTAIN MATERIAL (b) Preference ratings. (c) CMP allotment symbol. (d) Certification. RESTRICTIONS ON ORDERING MATERIAL (e) Scheduling deliveries. (f) Exceptions to paragraph (e) (g) Short item deliveries. RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIAL (h) Restrictions on use of material for maintenance and repair. (i) Restrictions on use of material for minor plant additions. (j) Restrictions on use of material for major plant additions. SELLING MATERIAL (k) Sales of material. (l) Refusal to sell to other producers. INVENTORY REDISTRIBUTION (m) [Deleted Aug. 31, 1944.] GENERAL PROVISIONS (n) Appeals. (o) Records. (p) Communications to War Production Board. (q) Violations. (r) Applicability of WPB regulations. (s) Special inventory directions. (t) Special provisions relating to Form WPB-2774 approvals issued prior to August 31, 1944. * (i) SCHEDULES Schedule A, Material Classes. Schedule B. [Deleted Aug. 31, 1944.] Schedule C, Limits on Practical Working Minimum Inventory. Schedule D. [Deleted Aug. 31, 1944.] §4500.1 Utilities O r d e r U -l— (a) Definitions. (1) “Producer” means any individual, partnership, association, cor­poration. governmental corporation or agency, or any organized group of per­sons, whether incorporated or not, lo­cated in the United States, its territories, or possessions, supplying, or having fa­cilities built for supplying, directly or indirectly for general use by the public, one or more of the following services: (i) Electric power, (ii> Gas, natural or manufactured, ex­clusive of the production and transmis­sion of natural gas up to the point of its entry into gas transmission lines from field gathering lines, (iii) Water, other than exclusively for irrigation purposes, (iv) Central steam heating, or (v) Any of the foregoing services but not for general use by the public, if a specific direction from the War Produc­tion Board entitles such person or agency to apply the ratings herein assigned. Application for such a specific direction WAR PRODUCTION BOARD should be made by letter to the War Production Board. Washington 25, D. C., Ref.: U -l. (2) “Material” means any commodity, equipment, accessory, part, assembly or product of any kind. (3) “Controlled materials” means con­trolled materials as defined in Schedule I of CMP Regulation 1. (4) “Maintenance” means the upkeep of a producer’s property and equipment in sound working condition. It does not include any plant addition. <5) “Repair” means the restoration of a producer’s property and equipment to sound working condition after wear and tear damage, destruction of parts, or the like have made such property or equip­ment unfit or unsafe for service. It does not include any plant addition. (6) “Plant addition” means the con­struction or installation of new facilities or the replacement of existing facilities with facilities of greater capacity. (7) “Minor plant addition” means a plant addition having a net material cost of not more than $10,000. No job or project may be subdivided to come with­in this limit. (8) “Major plant addition” means a plant addition having a net material cost of more than $10,000. (9) “Net materia] cost” means the cost of material incorporated in plant less the cost of material removed from plant, priced in accordance with the producer’s regular accounting practice. (10) ‘Operating supplies” means ma­terial. other than fuel, which is used or consumed in the course of a producer’s operations, except in maintenance, re­pair. and plant additions. (11) “Inventory” means all material in the producer’s possession, without re­gard to its accounting classification, ex­cluding. however, (i) material incorpo­rated in plant, (ii) appliances and mer­chandising supplies, (iii) fuel, (iv) water purification and treatment material ex­cept equipment, (v) gas chemical ma­terial, <vi) material segregated for use in approved major plant additions, (vii) scrap and (viii) war surplus materials purchased. (12) “Class” means any one of those categories of material established as a basis for classification of inventory in Schedule A of this order. (13) “War surplus materials” means material designated as surplus to the war effort and offered for sale by any Federal government agency having jurisdiction over their disposal. How To Obtain Material (b) Preference ratings. (1 )A prefer­ence rating of AA-1 is hereby assigned to orders to be placed by a producer for material (other than controlled mate­rials) in every class except (i) the trans­mission and distribution class and (ii) the meter class, for use in maintenance and repair, as operating supplies, and for minor plant additions. U-l NOV. 15, 1944 [As Amended] (2) A preference rating of AA-1 is hereby assigned to orders to be placed by a producer for material (other than con­trolled materials) in (i) the transmis­sion and distribution class and (ii) the meter class, for use in the repair of an actual or imminent breakdown. (3) A preference rating of AA-3 is hereby assigned to orders to be placed by a producer for material (other than con­trolled materials) in (i) the transmis­sion and distribution class and (ii) the meter class, for use in maintenance and repair, as operating supplies, and for minor plant additions, except where an AA-1 rating is assigned in paragraph (b) (2) above. (4) Material obtained with the AA-1 rating may be used for purposes which are assigned lower ratings, but it may be replaced in inventory only by applying the lower rating to an equivalent dollar value of material in the same class. Ma­terial obtained with the AA-3 rating may be used for purposes which are assigned the AA-1 rating and may be replaced in inventory with either the AA-1 rating or an authorized AA-3 rating. The provi­sions of this paragraph (b) (4) supersede those of § 944.11, paragraph (a ), of Prior­ities Regulation 1. (5) Preference ratings for major plant additions may be obtained by filing an application on Form WPB-2774. (c) CMP allotment 'symbol. (1) The CMP allotment symbol U-9 is hereby assigned to orders to be placed by a pro­ducer for controlled materials for use in maintenance and repair, as operating supplies and for minor plant additions. Allotments of material for major plant additions may be obtained by filing an application on Form WPB-2774. (2) An order for controlled materials for use in maintenance and repair, as operating supplies and for minor plant additions bearing the CMP allotment symbol U—9 and the certification re­quired by paragraph (d) of this order shall be (teemed an authorized controlled materials order. This CMP allotment symbol shall constitute an “ allotment number or symbol” for the purpose of CMP Regulation 3. (d) Certification. The ratings as­signed by subpdrcgraphs (b) (1). (2) and (3) of this order and the CMP allot­ment symbol U-9 may be applied by a producer only by the use of a certifica­tion in substantially the following form unless an order of the War Production Board affecting a particular item of ma­terial requires some other form of cer­tification: Preference R a tin g ---------- CMP Allotment symbol U-9. The undersigned producer certifies subject to the penalties of section 35 (A) of the United States Criminal Code, to the seUer 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, for utility uses under Utilities Order GPO— War Board 13400— 1>. 1