SECTION I. GENERAL - TB-43-0002-850002

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Maintenance Expenditure Limits

TB 43-0002-85

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SECTION VII

REFERENCES.

7-1. Department of Army Publications

Paragraph 7-1.

SECTION VIII

E XPLANATIONS OF ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS

8-1. Department of Army Acronyms.

Paragraph 8-1.

SECTION IX

APPENDIX

9-1. General

Paragraph 9-1.

9-2. Explanation of Columns.

Paragraph 9-2.

Appendix A - MEL FACTORS FOR FSC Class 2410

Appendix B - MEL FACTORS FOR FSC Class 2420

Appendix C - List of Equipment Obsolete or No Longer Supported.

SECTION I.

GENERAL

1-1. Purpose. This Technical Bulletin (TB) prescribes the Maintenance Expenditure Limits (MEL) which applicable

support maintenance level technical inspectors will use to determine repair eligibility or disposition when inspections

are performed on equipment received for repair to a serviceable condition and return to user, transfer, or for turn-in.

These limits do not apply to Department of the Army (DA) directed repair programs. The material proponent (US

Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command) is responsible for specifying the MEL percentage found in the

appropriate appendix in this TM.

1-2.

Scope. This TB applies to all active Army, Army National Guard, and United States Reserve applicable support

level maintenance units including Army depot activities, when performing repair-and-return to user service. It does

not apply to unit level or programmed depot repair. A decision concerning the eligibility/suitability of materiel for

depot repair or disposal is made by materiel proponents prior to programming repair.

SECTION II.

DETERMINING EXPENDITURE LIMITS

2-1. Procedures. A determination to ensure that the expenditure limits will not be exceeded is required each time an

item is received at the applicable maintenance level or at depot level on a repair to user basis. Repair will not

broken into separate jobs to reduce total cost. Whenever cost to repair exceeds the MEL, the item must be

reported for disposition or a waiver to repair must be obtained.

To determine expenditure limits:

a. The MEL percentage factors identified in the appropriate appendix in the TB will be used to determine the

maximum dollar amount which can be expended to return an item to a serviceable condition. The dollar amount

is the limit of repair authorized. This limit is compared with the estimated cost of repair. Repair is not

authorized if the estimated cost exceeds the MEL, unless a waiver is granted to exceed MEL.

b. An inspection is performed to determine the extent of the maintenance effort required for restoring the item to

prescribed conditions or serviceable and determine If the item is economically repairable. The estimated repair

cost is obtained during this process by computing the cost/elements which are required to repair an item to the

standards specified in the appropriate TM. Procedures are in SECTION III of this TB.

c. The dollar expenditure limit is obtained by multiplying the appropriate percentage factor obtained in the TB by

the current unit replacement price of the item being repaired.

July 1998