---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 C.F.R. § 321.4"
title: "44"
number: "321.4"
heading: "Achieving production readiness."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/44/321.4"
---

# §321.4. Achieving production readiness.

- (a) In order to achieve a capability for maximum production of “urgent” items during the initial phase of war, the following readiness measures shall be taken where advisable for facilities producing such items:
  - (1) **Establishment of emergency production schedules.**
  - (2) Development of a production capability which would function under widespread disruption and damage imposed by enemy attack, including, where necessary:
    - (i) Maintenance of an increased inventory of finished components and related production supplies at assembly plants, or arrangements for alternative supply lines where increased inventories are not feasible.
    - (ii) A capability to carry on urgent production without dependence on additional personnel, external sources of power, fuel, and water, or on long-distance communications; with spare replacements for highly vulnerable or unreliable parts of production equipment.
    - (iii) **Protection of production facilities from enemy sabotage through adequate physical security measures.**
    - (iv) Protection of personnel from widespread radiological fallout through provisions for decontamination and shelter.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: National Security Act of 1947, as amended 50 U.S.C. 404; Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended; 50 U.S.C. app. 2061 et seq.; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 329; E.O. 12148 (44 FR 43239).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 44576, July 1, 1980, unless otherwise noted.