Randall Clague wrote:
We're going to have a problem flying KISS beta after 5/24/2003. That's when the Safe Explosives Act takes effect. SEA never made it out of committee this spring, but it just passed as part of the Homeland Security Act. SEA requires all users of explosives, wherever they are and whatever their motives, to have permits. Permits have always required explosives magazines. We don't have an explosives magazine; we've never needed one, for the perfectly good reason - which has not changed - that we don't store explosives.
Either peroxide is explosive or it isn't. If it isn't, no problem, we're not affected. If it is, then we're storing explosives. Granted, it's only really explosive in the presence of a catalyst, but we store the catalyst too - although silver itself doesn't need a permit to store, since it's not the silver that explosively decomposes. Now, if we are storing explosives (either peroxide or solids), how is "magazine" defined? If it's just that in which one stores explosives, then would our various containers - the container we haul it down in, the tank in the rocket itself, etc. - qualify as magazines? If so, would the existing licenses we have for peroxide storage (and the blanket permit the previous regs - as set by DOT and California - issued for transporting peroxide below a certain amount) qualify as a "previously existing permit"? (I doubt it, at least for the "blanket permit", but perhaps.) _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
