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\ WAR PRODUCTION BOARD Part 4500—Power, Water, Gas, and Central Steam Heat [Utilities Order U-l as Amended Jan. 22, 1944] Section 4500.1 Utilities Order U-l as heretofore amended is hereby amended to read as follows: PART I—DEFINITIONS (a) Definitions. PAST H—HOW TO OBTAIN MATERIAL (b) Preference ratings. (c) CMP allotment number. (d) Certification. . PAST m—RESTRICTIONS ON ORDERING MATERIAL (e) Scheduling deliveries. (f) Exceptions to paragraph (e). (g) Short item deliveries. PAST IV---RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIAL (h) Restrictions on use of material for maintenance and repair. (1) Restrictions on use of material for minor plant additions. (j) Restrictions on use of material for major plant additions. PAST V—SELLING MATERIAL (k) gales of material. (l) Refusal to sell to other producers. PART VI—INVENTORY REDISTRIBUTION (m) Clearing orders through Regional Utility Engineers. PAST vn—-GENERAL PROVISIONS (n) Appeals. (o) Records. (p) Communications to War Production Board. (q) Violations. (r) Applicability of WPB regulations. (s) Special delivery quota and Inventory directions. PART vm—SCHEDULES Schedule A, Material Classes. Schedule B, Delivery Quotas. Schedule C, Limits on Practical Working Minimum Inventory. Schedule D, Items To Be Cleared Through Regional Utility Engineers. § 4500.10 Utilities Order U-l. PART I—DEFINITIONS (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: (1) '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 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 $1,500. 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 $1,500. (9) “Net material 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, and (vii) scrap. (12) “Class” means any one of those categories of material established as a basis for classification of inventory in Schedule A of this order. PART n—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 the transmis­sion and distribution class, for use in maintenance and repair, as operating supplies, and for minor plant additions. (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 the transmission and distribution class, for use in the re­pair of an actual or imminent breakdpwn. (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 the transmission and distribution 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 I 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, unless ratings are assigned by a Supplementary U-l Order such as U-l-h. (c) CMP allotment number. (1) The abbreviated CMP allotment number 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 unless an allotment number is as­signed by a supplementary U-l order such as U-l-h. GPO— War Board 9477— p. 1