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Purpose. AR 420-10 provides the management principles for the Directorate of Public Works (DPW). This pamphlet provides the DPW with a facilities and resource management process for effective operation and maintenance of real property facilities and utilities.

Applicability. This pamphlet applies to the Active Army and the U.S. Army Reserve. It applies to installations and activities in active use by the regular Army, in an inactive or standby condition for future use by the regular Army, in an excess category, and in fulltime or intermittent use by the U.S. Army Reserve or Reserve Officers' Training Corps. This pamphlet does not apply to the Army National Guard and installations and activities, or parts thereof, which have been licensed to the District of Columbia or to any State, territory, or commonwealth of the United States for use by the National Guard; single project, owned or leased, civil works facilities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; national cemeteries; facilities occupied by Army activities as tenants when support is provided by another government agency; and Government-owned, contractor-operated industrial plants or activities.