This report provides interim guidelines for the layaway and periodic inspection, maintenance, and repair of historic buildings on U.S. Army installations. It builds on previous facility layaway research by the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) documented in CERL Technical Report M-91/23 (July 1991). This report describes the specific requirements for laying away historic buildings, providing guidelines for inspection and periodic maintenance and repair (M & R) for key building systems, components, and subcomponents. Topics discussed include definitions of historic buildings, Federal guidelines for laying away historic buildings, inspection purposes and guidelines, and categories of required M & R for laid away historic facilities. Appendixes to this report include eight extensive checklists to help guide the inspection and M & R of major building systems and components.

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The Department of the Army meets its materiel requirements principally through purchase from private sources. However, the Army produces certain ordnance-related items and performs some ordnance-related services in a set of arsenals, ammunition plants, other ammunition activities, and depots. The Army operates some of these facilities; contractors operate others. Although this set of facilities has been reduced since the end of the Cold War, the remaining facilities still operate at less than their full capacity today. The unused and underused capacity raises questions about how many of these facilities the Army needs, how large they need to be, and who should own and operate them. This report represents the third phase of a multiyear study that examines the Army's ordnance industrial base and makes recommendations about these issues.