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Data and criteria in this handbook apply to the design of oxyacetylene and breathing oxygen and nitrogen facilities at Navy and Marine Corps shore activities. Oxyacetylene facilities consist of storage and generating functions. Breathing oxygen and nitrogen facilities consist of storage, generating, vaporizing, or transfer functions.

Acetylene, oxygen, and nitrogen generation facilities should only be provided when adequate supplies of the gases cannot be obtained commercially. Obtain approval from Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters (NAVFAC), Code 04A, before designing new acetylene, gaseous oxygen, liquid oxygen and nitrogen generating facilities, or before designing any expansion of existing facilities.