NAVFAC P-300 Management of Transportation Equipment

APPENDIX N. LIVE STORAGE FOR
CIVIL ENGINEERING SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
1. Assignment Of CESE. Many Naval Construction Force (NCF) units are
assigned numerous pieces of Civil Engineering Support Equipment (CESE) that are
required only for contingency, emergency, or occasional use and, consequently, have
extended periods of non-use. This extra equipment invites improper use, absorbs
maintenance man-hours, and often suffers deterioration from excessive exposure to the
elements.
2. Live Storage Program. The NCF units are hereby provided guidance for a
program of live storage of CESE. It is realized that general application of this
instruction shall not provide specific coverage for all CESE, nor the varied operational
and climatic conditions experienced geographically. When more frequent exercising is
warranted, the Equipment Officer or Maintenance Supervisor is authorized to vary the
exercise intervals.
a. Live Storage. Place equipment in live storage when there is no
foreseeable need for the equipment for a period of two preventive maintenance (PM)
cycles or 80 working days. All cranes, however, shall be maintained in an active status
under control of the crane crew. The CESE eligible for live storage must be in A4
condition and be controlled as outlined:
(1) Equipment placed in live storage shall retain its original PM group
and be placed in a 20-day cycle. For example: If a piece of equipment is in PM group
4 it shall also be placed in PM group 24; a piece of equipment in PM group 37 shall
also be placed in PM group 17. A master live storage cycle schedule shall be prepared
for the CESE assigned to live storage, using the same format prescribed in Chapter 4,
Section 2, which provides instructions for establishing a PM schedule for active CESE.
Cost Control shall provide to the Live Storage Supervisor a daily list of CESE to
be cycled by filling out the cycle log for live storage CESE (Figure N-1), annotating
USN numbers and the type of cycle due. The Live Storage Cycle Log shall be
reviewed and signed by the maintenance supervisor prior to work being performed by
the live storage crew. At the end of each work day, the completed Live Storage Cycle
Log shall be returned to Cost Control in order to update the Live Storage Service Sheet
(Figure N-2).
(2) A copy of the Live Storage Service Sheet shall be maintained in
the History Jacket for each piece of stored equipment that indicates the date the unit
was placed in storage and a chronological order of inspections, operational test, and
repairs performed. The Live Storage Service Sheet shall not be purged from the
History Jacket.
(3) The Equipment Officer shall be responsible for all equipment
placed in live storage. The Live Storage Program shall be under the control of the
Maintenance Supervisor.
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