[en] The helium distribution system of the Large Coil Test Facility is designed to establish and maintain the thermal environment of the toroidal array of superconducting magnets throughout the initial test and evaluation period of the test program. The refrigeration and liquefaction requirements for the LCTF will be discussed including both the usual cooldown, lead cooling, thermal conduction and radiation and joule heating losses, and the unusual losses due to simulated nuclear heating, magnetic coupling losses due to the transient fields of the driving magnets, and pumping losses due to fluid resistance and pump inefficiency. The flow system is designed with separate cooldown and steady-state flow systems, and to simultaneously circulate helium understeady-state conditions through coils cooled by boiling liquid or supercritical helium at approximately 4.0 K and >2.5-atm pressure. Separate helium storage dewars are utilized for vapor cooling of the current leads to the magnets with the effluent gas being stored after compression in high pressure storage tanks. The flow diagram will be presented in simplified form to show the salient features of the cryogenic system