Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2749. First, know what you are filling: Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application. The document is titled DD Form 2749, Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application, October 2003.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Take the fields in order and answer all of them. Mark inapplicable items N/A instead of leaving white space. When you reach a date, copy the format shown on the form, since a reviewer reading a different convention may misread your entry entirely.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Sign last, and sign properly. On paper that means ink in the signature block. Electronically it means a digital signature, usually applied with your Common Access Card in a reader that supports it. Typing your name into the field does not sign anything. Then add the date beside your signature — an unsigned or undated form is the most common reason one comes back.
Review before you submit. Look for a superseded edition, blank mandatory fields, illegible writing, dates in the wrong format, and an unsigned or undated certification.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 31 fields.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
Before you take the xfdl file, make sure you can open it. Install IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client first, because your pdf reader will refuse the file. Then download and complete it as normal.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- Section 1. T A P P Request source identification data. 1. Installation.
- 2. Source of T A P P request. Name of restoration advisory board, R A B, or technical review committee, T R C.
- 3. Certification of majority request.
- 4. Date of request (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 5. R A B Point of Contact. 1. Name. Last, first, middle initial.
- 5.b. Address. Street, apartment or suite number, City, State, and Zip Code.
- 5.c. Telephone number. Include area code.
- Section 2. T A P P Project description. 6. Project title.
- 7. Project type. Data interpretation, Training, etc.
- 8. Project purpose and description. State anticipated goals of project and relate to increased understanding and or participation in restoration process at the installation. Include descriptions, locations, and time tables of products or services requested.
- Statement of eligibility. Refer to eligibility criteria in S203.10 and S203.11 of T A P P rule. Note other sources that were considered for this support and state reasons why these sources are inadequate.
- 10. Additional qualifications or criteria to be considered. Additional qualifications, beyond those specified in S203.12, a provider should demonstrate to perform the project to the satisfaction of the R A B or T R C,. Attach separate statement, if necessary.
- Section 3. Installation Commander or Designated Decision Authority Approval. Press space bar to mark X if pproved.
- Mark X if not approved.
- 11. Signature.
- 12. Title.
- 13. Date. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- Section 4. Proposed Provider Data. 14. Proposed provider. a. Name.
- 14.b. Address (street, apartment number, city, state, Zip code).
- 14.c. Telephone number (include area code).
- 15. Provider qualifications. Attach separate statement, if necessary. A statement of qualifications from the proposed technical assistance provider will be acceptable.
- 16. Alternate Proposed Provider. a. Name.
- 16.b. Address (street, apartment number, city, state, Zip code).
- 16.c. Telephone number (include area code).
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2749?
- DD Form 2749, Technical Assistance for Public Participation (TAPP) Application, October 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?