FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT POLICY MANUAL

activities including those under the command of fleet commanders, but
does not include units of the operating forces.
3. BUDGET POLICY
a. General.
Organizational components are responsible for budgeting and funding
costs of operation and maintenance of medical and dental departments
and other medical organizational units at shore activities under this
command. Except as specified in subpar. e, these costs include, but
are not limited to, all costs of medicines and related supplies, civilian
personnel, all technical and non-technical equipment, and local
ambulance service when authorized.
b. Activities Other Than Industrial-Commercial.
At a shore activity not operating under the Navy Working Capital
Fund (NWCF), funds for costs cited in subpar. a are provided the shore
activity by or through the organizational component having command
responsibility. Support provided to authorized personnel of tenant or
contiguous activities will be on a common-service (nonreimbursable)
basis.
c. Industrial-Commercial Activities.
At an industrial-commercial activity, funds for costs cited in subpar. a
are financed initially by NWCF, except costs of equipment identified
as plant property, which are paid from the operation and maintenance
or procurement resources available to the organizational component
having command responsibility. Additionally, costs for the care of
military and civilian personnel of tenant activities are considered as an
expense to the military support resources of the industrial-commercial
activity without reimbursement from the organization receiving the
service.
d. Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Midshipmen Medical Costs.
The Commander, Naval Education and Training Command
(COMNETC) is responsible for the Naval Reserve Officers Training
Corps (NROTC) program, including coordination of NROTC medical
matters. NETC is also the responsible organizational component for
funding NROTC midshipmen medical costs when support is not
available from medical treatment facilities of the Armed Forces on a
common-service basis.
e. Exceptions.
Excepted from the costs in subpars. b and c are the following:
1. the cost of ambulance procurement, which is a budgeting and
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