User:Kentmoraga/PLANCOR

PLANCOR (sometimes "Plancor" or "plancor") was a U.S. government term coined by the Defense Plant Corporation (“DPC”, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation) to uniquely identify projects. If the DPC owned an entire production unit or industrial complex, the project probably received one or more “PLANCOR” numbers. The DPC financed the construction of new industrial facilities and the expansion of existing ones from 1940 to 1945, but the government continued to own some PLANCOR properties as late as the mid-1950s.

When a plant was built (on behalf of the Army or Navy), the DPC retained the title to the plant, but the plant was then operated by a company that paid a small rental fee. 935 PLANCORS were built under War Department sponsorship alone.

Among the PLANCOR facilities built, a couple stand out for their uniqueness, such as:
 * An entire town was built! Such was the creation of Henderson, NV, as PLANCOR 201H.
 * A facility was built on foreign soil. PLANCOR 690 was built in Nicaro, Oriente, Cuba, and was operated by the Nicaro Nickel Company.

Current use
The historical assignment of a PLANCOR number can serve as evidence that federal involvement was present at a facility. This can be beneficial when applying to recover CERCLA costs from the U.S. Government. Similarly, recovery for asbestos remediation costs can be obtained.

Within the government, the General Services Administration uses the PLANCOR number to uniquely identify property when requested to value the service of real property and related personal property.

List of PLANCOR numbers
The list below was compiled from information available on the internet. It does not purport to be complete, but it is shared here so that some current property owners faced with CERCLA or asbestos remediation costs may be able to quickly determine if they can seek relief directly from the U.S. Government.

The schema for numbering is not known, but the reader may quickly observe these potential deficiencies:
 * 1) Some numbers are missing from the list.  It is not known whether these represent missing data, or if these represent proposed projects that never materialized.
 * 2) The number sequence jumps dramatically near the end.  Indeed, there are no numbers starting with 2600-3100, or 3300-6200.  It is not known whether these represent missing data, but the size of these gaps suggest that a meaning may be associated to numbers starting with 3200 or 6300.
 * 3) There are more than 935 PLANCOR numbers below, which seems to contradict the statement above that "935 PLANCORS were built under War Department sponsorship alone".  It is not known if PLANCOR sites were built under sponsorship other than the War Department, but that seems unlikely.