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Submittals

A submittal package is what goes to the approving authority to site explosives facilities — for DCMA, an Explosives Safety Site Plan (ESSP). Siter builds the three main parts of a package from the same project data: a transmittal letter, submittal forms, and drawings. Siter produces each part separately; combine them into the package your approving authority expects.

Prerequisites​

  • You must have an open project with facilities, explosive data, and analysis results
  • You must have the Project Read Permission or higher to generate forms, drawings, and the transmittal letter
  • You must have the Project Edit Permission or higher to enter the project and facility details the package draws on

The parts of a submittal package​

PartWhat it isOutputStandards
Transmittal letter (alpha)The cover letter for the package. It introduces the installation, summarizes each group of PESs with their NEW, governing distances, and nearest exposures, lists the exposed sites, and carries the standard paragraphsA LaTeX (.tex) draft for one or more PESs, finished and compiled outside SiterDCMA
Submittal formsOne form per facility per criteria: a PES form for a potential explosion site or an ES form for an exposed site, with every PES–ES pair, its required and actual distances, and its notesA browser page you print or save as PDFDCMA, DESR, NATO, ATF
DrawingsMaps of the sited facilities with their arcs, dimensions, legend, and labels, rendered from a saved Result SetA drawing file, or DXF for CADAny criteria the project analyzes

The letter's attachments list names the drawings and forms as enclosures, so the three parts are meant to travel together.

Supported standards​

StandardSubmittal formsTransmittal letter
DCMA (DoD Manual 4145.26)PES form, ES formYes
DESR (6055.09, Edition 1, Change 2)PES form, ES formNo
NATO (AASTP-1 EdC v1)PES form, ES formNo
ATF (27 CFR 555)PES form, ES formNo

A form or letter only exists for criteria the project is configured with (see How to edit project details).

Where the package content comes from​

Each part reads a different set of fields. Fill in the ones for the parts you will produce:

SourceTransmittal letterSubmittal formsDrawings
Project Installation✓✓
Project Location✓
Project Organization✓
Project Installation Description and Submittal Contact✓
Facility type and explosives for the criteria✓✓✓
Facility Facility Description and Submittal Notes (Notes tab)✓
Facility Facility Narrative (Notes tab)✓
Relationship submittal notes✓
Analysis results✓✓✓ (through a Result Set)
Result Set contents and analysis symbology✓

A facility's Notes field is internal and never appears in any part of the package.

How to put a submittal package together​

  1. Set up the project. Enter the Installation, Location, and Organization, and for a DCMA letter the Installation Description and Submittal Contact (see Projects)
  2. Describe the facilities. Assign each facility's type and explosives for the criteria, and fill in its Facility Description, Submittal Notes, and Facility Narrative. Add relationship submittal notes for pairs that need an explanation, such as a violation mitigation
  3. Run the analysis and resolve violations. Check that no facility is listed under Analysis Required (see Running an analysis)
  4. Generate the forms for each PES and ES, and clear any notice they show (see Incomplete and out-of-date forms)
  5. Save a Result Set and export the drawings (see Result Sets and drawings)
  6. Export the transmittal letter for the PESs in the package, complete its USER UPDATE markers, and compile it (see Transmittal letters)
tip

Generate every part from the same analysis. Each part reads the analysis when you generate it, so re-running the analysis after exporting one part can leave the parts disagreeing — regenerate them all after any change.