Folks, For the last few days there's been a big fuss over on the aRocket list about the latest fallout from the Safe Explosives Act of the Homeland Security Act. UPS has stopped accepting solid rocket motors for shipment, citing the hassle of getting all their line employees Ridge-ified (approved by Dept of Homeland Security). Curtis Scholl claims,
> Now, John Wickman has introduced a new wrinkle. Rumor or propaganda >has it that the BATF(E) wants to regulate ALL rocket motors with over >62.5 grams of propellant whether solid, hybrid or liquid. John Wickman has long experience working the Hill, and is a pretty solid character. He should get some good results. He's representing ARSA (Amateur Rocketry Society of America, or some such: basically the aRocket Society), and putting together a campaign to get the U.S. Senate to pass an emergency bill directing ATFE to suspend enforcement of the SEA until a sensible replacement bill can be written and passed. SEA was apparently written with no input from the explosives industry, and it is a piece of junk. Wickman was working on getting a bill written that did nothing except exempt rocket propellants from ATFE jurisdiction, but apparently that's been suspended because of the UPS debacle. The question is, should ERPS take any official action in the upcoming - as in, probably on Monday - Senate faxathon? -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
