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Old 09-25-2013, 10:46 AM
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It would be trivial to set up a long term storage and discharge point at a launch site. Site managers are welcome to contact USR.

Ironically it is vastly easier to get permission to discharge USR motors nationally, than any NAR approved model rocket motors in California.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mebowitz/proced.pdf
PDF file from the Southern California Rocket Association website. Fred Shecter and Martin Bowitz run that group. I guess I was a founding member.

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Originally Posted by SCRA document
Our club (SCRA) is the local section of the non-profit National Association of Rocketry (NAR). We contacted officials concerning this situation. We were assured that our club has never been the source of this type of problem and they were willing to hear suggestions on how to prevent violations while allowing Model Rocket launching to be permitted. They reasoned that the only way to maximize public safety was to only allow fully supervised launches with each model & motor/engine “safety inspected”.
Thanks SCRA for guiding their thinking on this to allow ONLY supervised launches, with written permission of the AHJ and the landowner, in the state that used to account for over 40% of national MR consumption rates. The rule they replaced was verbal permission of the AHJ (local FD) and the landowner. Teachers and small groups could readily cope with that. And contemperaneous consumers!

No more.

No other state has such a restriction. The bodies are not piling up like logs.

Then there is the new igniter rule which is a "made up" regulation, not a law.

Pyrotechnic igniters included with NA-0323 products are ATF exempt even under the "badly written" regulations which eliminated all Class C exemptions. There has been almost no blast back on that by the "industry". After ATF admitted the reg changes (eliminating the Class C (UN 1.4) and propellant exemptions) were badly written and do not comport with its mission statement, they simply did not fix it! It's intentional.

Once NAR and TRA won the ATF lawsuit on 16 March 2009, they both lost interest in using the rulings they won to actually get further relief from ATF and other regulators!!

Federal Court Order
PDF file from the U.S. Rockets website. I was a founder.

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Originally Posted by Federal Court ORDER

"ATFE’s own burn rate threshold for deflagration
is 1000 millimeters (or one meter) per second."
Tripoli Rocketry Ass’n, 437 F.3d at 81-82

"ORDERED that the defendant's [BATFE] decision to
classify APCP as an explosive under
18 U.S.C. § 841(d) is VACATED."
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