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Use DA Form 337 when you need to request for approval of disposal of buildings and improvements. Full title: REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF DISPOSAL OF BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition 05/01/1959, status ACTIVE, 2 page(s), roughly 183 fields.
Authority sits in two places. USACE owns the form, AR 405-90 says when it is raised and where it goes. Routine cases need neither read in full — the page itself carries the sequence. The entries are completed by their subject or by unit administrative staff working from what that person supplies.
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What the form asks for
- COST
- COST_1
- COST_10
- COST_11
- COST_12
- COST_13
- COST_14
- COST_15
- COST_16
- COST_17
- COST_18
- COST_19
- COST_2
- COST_20
- COST_3
- COST_4
- COST_5
- COST_6
- COST_7
- COST_8
- COST_9
- ContentArea1
- ContentArea2
- DATE
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
Tab through the fields rather than clicking. The tab order was fixed when the form was built and generally follows the page, which catches boxes a mouse skips past. Check boxes and option buttons take a click, and an exclusive group clears the previous selection when you make a new one. Single-line fields do not wrap — text past the field width prints truncated while still showing in full on screen, which is why the loss is discovered after printing. Overflow goes to remarks or a continuation sheet. A field that does not apply gets the mark meaning none; blank space reads as an omission.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Privacy Act statement first, personal entries second. The notice covers who is authorised to collect, why, who else routinely sees it, and whether you must answer. After completion the file carries personal data and is stored and sent under the corresponding safeguards.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with USACE or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 337?
- REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF DISPOSAL OF BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Which edition is current?
- 05/01/1959
- Who is responsible for this form?
- USACE
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, PDF
Publisher notes
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA,