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Defense Department form, series DD, number 1640. Full title: DD Form 1640, Request for Plant Clearance, January 2016. Function: Request for Plant Clearance. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 26 fillable fields.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date Prepared (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- 2. To (Include ZIP Code).
- 3. From (Include ZIP Code).
- 4. Gross Value of Inventory Schedules (In dollars).
- 6. Procurement Instrument Identification Number.
- 7. Prime Contract End Item.
- 8. Subcontract Number.
- 9. Name and Address of Prime Contractor (Include Zip Code).
- 10. Name and Address of Subcontractor (Include ZIP Code).
- 11. Location of Property.
- 5. Schedule Partial Number.
- 12. Type of contract. Press space bar to mark X in first box if fixed price, second if cost type, third if facility, fourth if lease agreement, fifth if formal storage agreement, or sixth if bailment.
- 13. Type of inventory. X first box if termination, second if residual to completed contract, third if change order, fourth if excess to active contract, or fifth if production equipment.
- 14. Remarks.
- 15. Enclosures(s). Include Prime Contractor's Certificate of Allocability and Statement of No Further Requirements for the Property.
- 16. Requesting Official. a. Typed Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 16.b. Title.
- c. Signature.
- 16.d. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- First Endorsement. 17. To (Include ZIP Code).
- 19. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- (1) Disposition will be accomplished under this case number. Please refer to this assigned case number in all correspondence pertaining to the above enclosures.
- 20. Plant Clearance Officer. a. Typed Name (last, first, middle initial).
- 20.b. Title.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 1640 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
Editions change because the underlying directive changes, because collection requirements are revised, or because Privacy Act language is updated. Checking the edition date at the point of download is the practical response.
This page distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. It is not a source of legal advice and makes no representation about acceptance of any completed form. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure belong to not stated, the servicing personnel office, or the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1640?
- DD Form 1640, Request for Plant Clearance, January 2016
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?