[Federal Register: May 11, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 90)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Revision of the Department of Defense 6055.9-Standard, Department
of Defense Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards
AGENCY: Department of Defense.
ACTION: Notice of change.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) is
announcing several changes to Department of Defense 6055.9-Standard,
dated July 1999. The DDESB is republishing the Standard dated 5 October
2004 with all changes adopted by the Board since the 1999 edition.
The DDESB is taking this action pursuant to its statutory authority
as set forth in Title 10, United States Code, Section 172 (10 U.S.C.
172) and DoD Directive 6055.9, ``DoD Explosives Safety Board (DDESB)
and DoD Component Explosives Safety Responsibilities,'' 29 Jul 1996.
The Standard to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military
Departments (including the Army and Air Force National Guards), the
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency, the
Defense Contract Management Agency, the Coast Guard (when under DoD
control), and other parties who produce or manage ammunition and
explosives under contract to the DoD. Through DoD 6055.9-STD the DDESB
establishes minimum explosives safety requirements for storing and
handling ammunition and explosives.
ADDRESSES: Copies of this Standard may be downloaded from the DDESB Web
page: http://www.ddesb.pentagon.mil/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more detailed information on
specific aspects of this Standard, contact Dr. Jerry M. Ward, phone:
(703) 325-2525; e-mail: Jerry.Ward@ddesb.osd.mil DDESB, 2461 Eisenhower
Avenue, Room 856C, Alexandria, VA 22331-0600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dating back to 1928 when Congress directed
the Secretaries of the military departments to establish a joint board
of officers to ``keep informed on stored supplies of ammunition and
components thereof * * *, with particular regard to keeping those
supplies properly dispersed and stored and to preventing hazardous
conditions from arising to endanger life and property inside or outside
of storage reservations,'' the DDESB (formerly known as the Ammunition
Safety Board) has periodically revised or updated the Standard based on
new scientific or technical information and explosives safety
experience. The implementation of a change to DoD 6055.9-STD depends on
a formal publication of a change to DoD 6055.9-STD. In order to ensure
compliance, the Services and Defense Agencies modify their Service or
Agency implementing procedures and standards accordingly.
This revision to the July 1999 version of DoD 6055.9-STD
incorporates decisions made by the DDESB at the 31 6th meeting held on
20 August 1998 up to and including the 326th meeting held on 3 March
2004 and votes by DDESB votes by correspondence memoranda dated 3
December 1998, 5 July 2000, 2 November 2000, 28 December 2001, 26 March
2002, 21 November 2002, 27 February 2003, 9 June 2003, and 25 September
2003. Although the decisions adopted by the Board up through the 31 7th
meeting held on 25 February 1998 pre-date the July 1999 version, the
Standard was in the publication process, and those changes were not
included.
The changes included herein address the following:
Rewrites the Standard in Plain English, expands the
glossary to include additional terms used in the Standard, reorganizes
the content of the chapters with no changes in explosives safety
criteria, incorporates both metric and English units, and provides
equations (forward and back calculations) for all tabulated variables.
Completely revises the Hazard Division (HD) 1.2 quantity-
distance (Q-D) criteria and related HD 1.1 minimum hazardous fragment
distance criteria as well as incorporates editorial changes taking into
account new hazard sub-divisions (HD) 1.2.1, and HD 1.2.2).
(Corresponding changes were made to HD 1.2.1 and HD 1.2.2 criteria in
NATO).
Redefines ``Unit Risk HD 1.2'' munitions as ``HD 1.2.3,''
and expands and clarifies the criteria for HD 1.2.3 munitions.
Replaces Chapter 10 ``Theater of Operations'' with
completely revised Chapter 10 ``Military Operations Other than War,
Contingency, and Combat,'' includes new Q-D criteria for asset
preservation, provides site planning process for subject operations,
defines field storage and handling areas and associated Q-D criteria,
expands Glossary to include new terms included in the revised chapter.
Clarifies that hardened aircraft shelter criteria in
chapter 10 are applicable to peacetime operations as well as
contingency and combat.
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Clarifies the application of barricaded intraline criteria
(18W \1/3\) from ammunition and explosives storage facilities to
runways and taxiways (used only by DoD Components).
Establishes criteria for high performance magazines and
defines ``high performance magazine,'' ``non-robust munitions,''
``robust munitions,'' ``fragmenting munitions,'' and ``sensitivity
groups'' (for HD 1.1 and HD 1.2 ammunition in the Joint Hazard
Classification System).
Establishes criteria for non-DoD explosives activities on
DoD installations and expands Glossary to include new terms associated
with criteria.
Establishes criteria for permissible exposure to on-base
roads from HD 1.1 airblast overpressure and defines ``general public''
and ``installation related personnel''.
Clarifies minimum design requirements for earth-covered
magazines and the expected (design) blast loads.
Expands and clarifies safe separation distances for
primary fragments.
Replaces and expands the liquid propellant criteria with
criteria for energetic liquids to include: Energetic Liquid
Compatibility Groups and associated mixing rules, summary of hazard
classifications and minimum Q-D for energetic liquids used by DoD,
criteria for Occupational Safety and Health Administration National
Fire Prevention Association Class I through Class III flammable and
combustible energetic liquids, criteria for energetic liquid oxidizers,
and defines ``Energetic Liquid'' and ``Hybrid propellants''.
Clarifies Q-D criteria and mixing rules for HD 1.4
ammunition, and harmonizes criteria for quantities less than 3,000 lb
with HD 1.3 criteria for like quantities.
Expands and clarifies criteria for piers and wharfs that
are restricted loading and unloading ammunition and explosives to and
from barges.
Establishes criteria for handling limited amounts of HD
1.3 and HD 1.4 safety-at-sea and security items.
Clarifies Q-D criteria for aircraft loaded with HD 1.4
ammunition and selected HD 1.2.2 and HD 1.3 munitions.
Removes the list of approved earth-covered magazines (ECM)
from Chapter 5 and placed in DDESB Technical Paper 15 ``Approved
Protective Construction,'' added reference for HNDED-CS-95-01 ``Guide
for Evaluating Blast Resistance of Non-Standard Magazines,'' and added
definitions for ``Aboveground Magazine'' and ``Earth-Covered Magazine
(ECM)''.
Revises HD mixing rules in Chapter 9.
Clarifies criteria for application of barricaded
intermagazine distance and intraline distance separation.
Revises criteria for separation of non-explosives ships
from explosives ships at anchorages.
Revises the list of approved munitions for ARMCO
revetments.
Clarifies siting criteria for small quantities of HD 1.1
(< 450 Ibs), use of ECM distances for other than 7-bar and 3-bar ECM,
and application of HD 1.1 of HD 1.2.1 items under certain situations
involving small quantities (< 450 Ibs).
Defines ``Secure Explosives Holding Area'' and ``Secure
Non-Explosives Holding Area'' and establishes explosives safety
criteria associated with them.
Clarifies situations where explosives safety site
submissions are not required.
Completely revises Chapter 3 ``Hazard Classification,
Storage and Compatibility Principles, and Mixing Rules''.
Revises storage criteria for inert items in explosives
areas.
Establishes explosives safety criteria for
demilitarization processing equipment and operations for expended .50-
caliber and smaller cartridge casings.
Establishes Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to
ordnance (HERO) criteria.
Defines roll-on roll-off (RORO) operations and establishes
limits and controls for RORO operations.
Clarifies conveyance, such as International
Standardization Organization (ISO) container, loading and unloading
operations permitted at magazines.
In adopting these changes, the DDESB has determined that the
Standards, as changed, are at least as protective as the previous
Standards.
Dated: May 5, 2005.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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