I see it as an attempt by BATF to "piece off" the "model rocket majority" by saying, "oh, we don't want to regulate the little stuff..."
It looks to me like more of an effort to reduce the uncertainty around the 62.5 gram limit. Regulators dislike uncertainty. Since it's ATF, I'm sure they don't *mind* that is splits the rocket hobbyist constituency, but I doubt that was their goal.
This ignores the matter that their "transporter disqualifications"
(declared effective almost immediately upon their announcement
a month or two ago) apply to individuals handling all "class 1" materials (including 1.4S traveling by exemption as 4.1 "flammable solid", as is the case with small Estes motors IIRC.)
This NPRM predates all the HSA/SEA nonsense. It takes a long time to write an NPRM and walk it through channels, and HSA was a slam dunk. Hopefully Wickman's proposal shed's some common sense on that mess.
-R
-- Randall Clague Government Liaison XCOR Aerospace [EMAIL PROTECTED] 661-824-4714
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