hown in figure 1-4 gives the departmental rganizational setup in greater detail.

Organization charts for the Bureau change omewhat from time to time, as policy changes r new missions may shift emphasis and workbads. It is inadvisable, therefore, in a text that will be in use over a period of several years, to resent a detailed breakdown of divisions, ranches, and sections. The general functions -f the Assistant Chiefs are given in this section, because the responsibilities concentrated at this high level are less likely to undergo radical hifts in emphasis.

The functions indicated in the lower part of he chart in figure 1-3 are discussed in a folowing section, BuDocks Field Offices and Activities.

An official statement of the functions perormed by divisions, branches, sections, and nits can be found in the Bureau publication, Organization and Functions of the Bureau of Wards and Docks, NavDocks P-313, revised as changes occur.

Currently, the organizational pattern of the Bureau consists of the Chief of the Bureau, the Deputy and Assistant Chief of the Bureau, the Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Bureau, nd the following: Inspector General and Assistnt Chief for Administration, Counsel, Office of Military Functions, Office of Policy Planning, Office of Research, Assistant Chief for Managenent and Comptroller, Assistant Chief for Engieering and Construction, Public Works Manageient, Assistant Chief for Real Property Management, and Assistant Chief for Housing and 'ield Activities.

The Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks s responsible for the carrying out of the Bueau's mission. By virtue of his office as Chief, e also serves in the official capacities of Techical Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, and Chief of Civil Engineer Corps, USN.

The Deputy and Assistant Chief of Bureau is elegated the authority and assigned the responibility for the overall administration of all rograms of components within the Bureau. He hakes determinations of Bureau policy conerned therewith, provided that (in his discreion) the policy determination is not of a nature hat need be referred to the Chief for decision.

The Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Jureau provides for the performance of special

ssignments and internal coordination of affairs

of the immediate staff, and of executive aids and advisors to the Chief.

The Chief of the Bureau receives help and advice from the Inspector General, Counsel, and the Offices of Military Functions, of Policy Planning, and of Research.

The Assistant Chiefs of the Bureau provide policy guidance in matters which are organizationally assigned for performance at the division level within the Bureau. The areas of responsibility in which the subsidiary divisions under each Assistant Chief operate are broadly indicated in the chart shown in figure 1-4.

Division directors are delegated authority to make decision in reference to, and to take final action on, all matters that fall within the assigned province of their responsibilities, and that do not involve questions of undetermined Bureau policy. They are assigned responsibility for administering all programs required for the accomplishment of division functions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Bureau of Yards and Docks, in accordance with Navy Regulations and with various directives, is responsible for the detailed duties enumerated below. Ultimate responsibility for seeing that the Bureau mission is properly carried on rests with the Chief of the Bureau. 1. The design, planning, development, procurement, construction, alteration, cost estimates, and inspection, at all shore activities of the Naval Establishment, of (1) public works, including floating drydocks, floating cranes, and amphibious pontoon equipment assigned to the Operating Forces; (2) public utilities; and (3) construction, transportation, and weighthandling equipment. Exception in this last category is made of Marine Corps equipment, and equipment assigned to another bureau or office.

2. The repair of the facilities enumerated above, when such repair is beyond the capacity of the local force employed, with funds supplied by the bureau or office having management or financial control.

3. The design and construction of all items at privately operated establishments that would constitute public works or public utilities if constructed at a Navy shore activity.

4. The determination and authorization of the rates of sale of utility services to private parties, to coordinate branches of the

Government, and to welfare activities within the Naval Establishment.

5. The making of an annual survey, and estimation of funds required for the maintenance of public works, public utilities, and construction, transportation, and weight-handling equipment at all shore activities of the Navy; and the submission of appropriate recommendations in connection therewith, to the offices and bureaus having management control.

6. The coordination of the procurement of utilities services required by shore activities of the Naval Establishment.

7. Maintenance of a record of the location of all automotive vehicles of the Navy, and assigning Navy registration numbers thereto.

8. Development, procurement, and distribution of materials and appliances for defense ashore against chemical, biological, and radiological warfare, except instruments to be used for detecting and measuring radioactivity, and identifying biological warfare agents.

9. The procurement, stocking, maintenance, inventory control, shipping, and industrial mobilization planning concerned with the Bureau's contributions to the Advanced Base Functional Component Program and supply action to the Naval Shore Establishment, in accordance with the current Basic Naval Establishment Plan (BNEP).

10. Liaison for the Navy Department with all public and private interests in regard to offstation access roads, and to housing and related community facilities and services serving the Shore Establishment.

11. The management control of all Navy family housing, related personal property, and nondwelling buildings and facilities, on family housing sites or exclusively supporting family housing, with the exception of housing and related facilities at Marine Corps supported installations.

RELATIONSHIP TO SHORE ESTABLISHMENT

The mission of the Bureau of Yards and Docks is primarily to support and contribute to the readiness of the Operating Forces, in accordance with the provisions of Navy Regulations (1948), and of directives issued by duly constituted authority.

In his capacity as a Naval Technical Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of the

Bureau of Yards and Docks is responsible for furnishing Sec Nav, the Civilian Executive Assistants of Sec Nav, and the Chief of Naval Operations with technical advice pertaining to the formulation of policies and procedures governing the administration of the Naval Establishment. The Chief of the Bureau is generally responsible for the Bureau's mission, but authority for discharging many of the duties related to a satisfactory accomplishment of mission must be delegated to assistant chiefs, to components of the Bureau organization, and to field activities.

BuDocks responsibility with regard to field activities involves such areas as military liaison and coordination, management control, and technical direction.

Military Liaison

The Office of Military Functions of BuDocks is assigned responsibility for, and delegated the authority to take final action on, matters pertaining to the functions performed by the Construction Forces Office, Military Personnel Office, Reserve Programs Office, and Military Services Office.

The Military Functions Officer has authority to take final action on policy matters with respect to such functions when, in his discretion, they need not be referred to the Chief or the Deputy and Assistant Chief of the Bureau, for decision.

The various branches within the Office of Military Functions are responsible for such matters as recommending standards and policies for the training of CEC personnel, coordinating administrative procedures for BuDocks internal training programs (for officers and enlisted personnel), and acting in liaison with the Bureau of Naval Personnel in the assignment of CEC officers to BuDocks activities.

Coordination Control

Coordination control as an exercise of military command consists essentially in so coordinating functions and programs that optimum results are obtained, over extended areas, with a minimum expenditure of manpower and money.

Each individual field activity is under the military command and coordination control of the commandant of the cognizant naval district, unless otherwise prescribed. Military command comprises effective military operation and

military administration; coordination control relates to such matters as communications, shore patrol, intelligence, leases, space assignments, public relations, and legal matters.

The commanding officer of each individual activity, as directed by the cognizant district commandant, handles such matters as fitness reports, promotions, disciplinary actions, courts-martial, uniform regulations, and so forth. Commanding officers are directly responsible to the district commandant for the successful accomplishment of assigned duties.

Each field installation or activity promulgatės its own station regulations. Among other things, these regulations set forth certain duties which the heads of the departments on the station must perform, subject to the orders of the commanding officer. These department heads represent the commanding officer, in matters pertaining to their respective departments, and are responsible to the CO for operation of, and conditions affecting, their departments.

Management Control

Management control is the exercise of executive authority and responsibility for the performance of the mission, tasks, and work of shore activities. This responsibility includes mission planning, shore activity development and workload planning, internal organization and procedures, budgeting, accounting, staffing, and the utilization of personnel, funds, materials, and facilities.

The Bureau of Yards and Docks exercises management control only over those separate activities of the Shore Establishment whose primary functions are:

1. Organizing and equipping units of the Naval Construction Forces.

2. Research, test, and development relating to materials and methods for use in public works construction.

3. Supervising the construction, repair, and upkeep of public works and public utilities (for example, the Public Works Centers, discussed. later in this chapter).

4. Representing the Bureau of Yards and Docks within a specially prescribed geographic area (for example, the APWOS, DPWOS, and Field Divisions).

Assignment of an activity under the management control of a bureau, office and so forth, is

made by Sec Nav. In the examples given above, BuDocks has been assigned management control of the activities that function in the cited areas of responsibility.

The Bureau of Naval Personnel is the management bureau for an activity that is concerned chiefly with curricula, training methods, organization for student instruction, student quotas, and similar matters. In other types of activities, the Bureau of Naval Weapons, the Bureau of Ships, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, or the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts will have primary interest, and will therefore be the cognizant management bureau.

Technical Direction

Technical direction is the specialized or professional service performed, or professiona guidance or direction exercised through the promulgation of policies and procedures in technical matters, by bureaus and offices of the Department of the Navy, in accordance with their assigned missions.

The technical direction exercised by the Bureau of Yards and Docks includes the following:

1. Alteration, repair, and upkeep of public works and public utilities; and the operating standards and procedures pertaining thereto.

2. Repair and upkeep of, and operating standards and procedures for, construction, transportation, and weight-handling equipment, EXCEPT Marine Corps equipment and specialized equipment that is assigned for technical control to another bureau or office.

3. Civil engineering standards and proce

dures.

4. Organization, equipment, and operational procedures of the Naval Construction Forces.

5. Operation of automotive vehicles insofar as public law pertains, and the Secretary of the Navy directs.

6. Design of buildings and structures, and engineering standards, to promote fire prevention and fire protection at shore activities (except for aircraft crash fires, and explosive and ammunition fires).

7. All housing under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy.

8. Standard limitations of expenditures for repair and alteration of Navy public quarters, and for repair and replacement of furniture for

such quarters, including the preparation and promulgation of allowance lists.

CIVIL ENGINEER CORPS

The public works programs of the Navy are concerned with a very great number of different facilities required at the many Navy activities for the performance of activity missions. These programs must include such procedures as design, planning, construction, alteration, operation, inspection, and maintenance of various public works, and public utilities; and the technical direction of Navy housing projects. Cost estimates, fund accounting, and maintenance of required records are also a necessary part of each program.

Many of the responsibilities stemming from these programs and procedures come within the province of the professional engineer. The Civil Engineer Corps is a staff corps that acts as a service organization for the entire Navy. The officers in this Corps serve under the Chief, Bureau of Yards and Docks, who is also the Chief, Civil Engineer Corps. The Corps also serves the Chief of Naval Operations, and the various bureaus and offices of the Navy, in the same way that an engineering division in an industrial enterprise serves the whole organization.

The broad responsibilities of the Civil Engiheer Corps may be described as the supervision of design, construction, and maintenance of the Shore Establishment. To ensure effective reults, there must be liaison and cross-planning etween a number of activities.

Assigned to each naval district, therefore, s a District Civil Engineer, who serves the District Commandant as a staff officer and techical assistant on public works and public tilities.

The District Civil Engineer (or an Area or District Public Works Officer acting as District 'ivil Engineer) has a responsibility for keeping he District Commandant fully informed on all hases of the scheduling and programming of Javy construction within the district; and on onstruction plans, within the area, of the other ilitary departments, and of Government agenies generally.

He prepares engineering reports as required y the cognizant District Commandant, and perrms certain management duties in behalf of le Commandant. For example, he is expected

to aid the Commandant in effecting coordination control of Navy facilities within the district; and he should maintain, for the use of the Commandant, significant data pertaining to harbors, channels, anchorages, berthing, and other facilities within the district and available for use by units of the fleet.

He may be required to advise on training procedures for Construction Battalions of the Naval Reserve, and to act for the Commandant in stimulating local interest in the activities of the Seabee (CB) component.

BUDOCKS FIELD OFFICES AND ACTIVITIES

In discussing the functions, technical responsibilities, and administrative duties of an activity Public Works Department, frequent mention must be made of the field offices and activities of BuDocks. These are the offices, divisions, and activities indicated in the chart shown in figure 1-3.

One of the major functions of the Bureau itself, and the primary function of the field offices, is to provide assistance to the Public Works Officers stationed at the various Navy activities and installations.

BuDocks provides assistance by promulgating policies and issuing directives concerning programs, management procedures, and so forth.

Field offices work more directly with the individual activities, in that they help in implementing Bureau policies and programs, and also help the activity public works departments in solving their particular problems. In the event that a field office is not able to render required assistance to an activity, then the field office may request assistance from the Bureau in solving the specific problem.

At the time at which this text was prepared, a reorganization of field offices generally was taking place. Some of the offices formerly designated District Public Works Offices were being combined into divisions that would serve larger geographical areas. In the current setup, there are overseas and on-continent divisions, Area Public Works Offices, and District Public Works Offices; hereinafter, these will be referred to as BuDocks Field Divisions, APWOS, and DPWOS.

Their functions remain substantially the same as they were prior to this reorganization, with