---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 700.30"
title: "15"
number: "700.30"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/700.30"
---

# §700.30. Policy.

- (a) **Allocation orders will—**
  - (1) Be used only when there is insufficient supply of a material, service, or facility to satisfy national defense requirements through the use of the priorities authority or when the use of the priorities authority would cause a severe and prolonged disruption in the supply of materials, services, or facilities available to support normal U.S. economic activities; and
  - (2) **Not be used to ration materials or services at the retail level.**
- (b) Allocation orders, when used, will be distributed equitably among the suppliers of the materials, services, or facilities being allocated and not require any person to relinquish a disproportionate share of the civilian market.

## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 47567, Aug. 14, 2014]

### Source

Source: 63 FR 31923, June 11, 1998, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 5195, et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 3816; 10 U.S.C. 2538; 50 U.S.C. 82; E.O. 12656, 53 FR 226, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 585; E.O. 12742, 56 FR 1079, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 309; E.O. 13603, 77 FR 16651, 3 CFR, 2012 Comp., p. 225.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 30414, July 30, 1984, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 54 FR 601, Jan. 9, 1989.

### Amendments

[79 FR 47567, Aug. 14, 2014]