---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 188.5"
title: "32"
number: "188.5"
heading: "Responsibilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/188.5"
---

# §188.5. Responsibilities.

- (a) **Secretaries of the Military Departments and Director, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).** The Director, DLA, is under the authority, direction, and control of the USD(AT&L), through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness. The Secretaries of the Military Departments and Director, DLA:
  - (1) Provide resources to support project-specific government oversight for the collection of definitive data in support of the DERP.
  - (2) **Provide resources to support project-specific laboratory approvals, if required.**
- (b) **Secretary of the Navy.** In addition to the responsibilities in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, the Secretary of the Navy plans, programs, and budgets for DoD EDQW activities necessary to support government oversight of the DoD ELAP.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3701; Pub. L. 106-554, 114 Stat. 2763.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 80998, Nov. 17, 2016, unless otherwise noted.