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Defense Department form, series DD, number 2970. Full title: DD Form 2970, Application for Temporary Food Establishment, January 2016. Function: Application for Temporary Food Establishment. 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.
Users include uniformed members of any branch, DoD civilian employees, contractor personnel where authorized, and the administrative staff who process the completed record.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 6 pages and contains approximately 200 fillable fields.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
Every listed format is free to download. Modern pdf software handles the pdf files, with the caveat that browser-embedded viewers sometimes ignore field properties that a desktop reader honours.
What the form asks for
- 1. Date submitted (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 2. Name of temporary food establishment.
- 3. Name of operator or owner.
- 4. Mailing address.
- 5. Telephone number.
- 6. Name of event.
- 7. Dates and times of food preparation.
- 8. Date and time TFE will be set up and ready for inspection.
- 9. Food/beverage to be served, line 1.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 2.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 3.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 4.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 5.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 6.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 7.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 8.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 9.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 10.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 11.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 12.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 13.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 14.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 15.
- Food/beverage to be served, line 16.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Guidance for specific entries sits on the form face and in not stated; the directive is authoritative where the two do not agree.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2970 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
Scope of this page: distribution of a published form and description of its contents. It offers no legal guidance and no assurance regarding any particular submission. Direct procedural questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2970?
- DD Form 2970, Application for Temporary Food Establishment, 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?