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For more detailed information on

specific aspects of this Standard, contact

Ray Sawyer by calling (703) 325–8625

or by writing to Department of Defense

Explosives Safety Board, 2461

Eisenhower Avenue, Room 856–C,

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 does not depend on formal

publication of a change to DoD 6055.9–

STD. Changes to the Standard are

effective when adopted by the Board, or

as the Board may otherwise direct. In

order to ensure compliance, the Services

and Defense Agencies modify their

Service or Agency implementing

procedures and standards accordingly.

This revision to the October 1992

version of DoD 6055.9–STD

incorporates decisions of the DDESB

made at its 307th through 314th

meetings held from July 1992 through

February 1997. Although the decisions

adopted at the 307th meeting of the

Board in July 1992 pre-date the October

1992 publication, the Standard was

already at the printer and those changes

could not be included. This revision

also reflects the recent assignment of the

DDESB to the Office of the Under

Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and

Technology.

The changes included herein address

the following:

• Expands the Scope of the Standard

to include application to any energetic

material (U.S. titled or otherwise) on

DoD owned or leased facilities.

• Eliminates high explosives limits

for training military working dogs for

explosives detection and maintains

evacuation distances applicable to

personnel who are not involved in the

training activity.

• Establishes quantity-distance

criteria for non-essential personnel and

establishes protection level criteria for

essential personnel for use at

ammunition and explosives burning

sites.

• Expands and clarifies quantitydistance criteria for the location of steel

tanks used to store hazardous materials

or water with respect to ammunition

and explosives locations.

• Establishes criteria for sites where

explosives loaded containers may be

moved from a rail to a road transport

mode, and vice versa.

• Modifies lightning protection

criteria into performance oriented

criteria that are consistent with current

National Fire Protection Association

(NFPA) standards.

• Establishes criteria that apply to

locations where inhabited building

quantity-distance arcs are allowed to

extend beyond DoD boundary lines.

• Clarifies the application of

explosion propagation prevention

measures when storing Storage

Compatibility Groups B and F

ammunition with other compatibility

groups ammunition.

• Expands the exemption from

quantity-distance requirements for

specific combat aircraft weapons loads.

• Establishes quantity-distance

criteria for Navy Maritime Prepositioning Ships based on test results

for specific ship explosives load

configurations.

• Expands and clarifies the standards

applicable to real property containing

ammunition, explosives, or chemical

agents, including providing for specified

depth criteria in the absence of a sitespecific assessment.

• Specifies the conditions that would

allow limited opening of boxes loaded

with ammunition while inside storage

facilities.

• Clarifies the quantity-distance

criteria applicable to training facilities

occupied by military personnel.

• Clarifies the criteria for types of

ammunition and inert materials that

may be stored in modular storage units

and sets explosives limits for modular

storage cells.

• Based upon tests results and

analysis, reduces the quantity-distance

criteria for U.S. 3rd generation harden

aircraft shelters.

• Allows commanders to determine

the appropriate separation distances

between aircraft parking areas, combat

aircraft parking areas, the associated

ready ammunition storage facilities, and

ammunition cargo areas.

• Based upon test results, clarifies the

criteria used to satisfy the quantitydistance requirements for underground

ammunition and explosives storage

facilities.

• Establishes requirement to retain

the explosives facility site plan package

at the installation.

• Establishes quantity-distance

criteria for siting range control points

with respect to other potential explosion

sites.

• Expands and clarifies quantitydistance criteria to include separation of

combat- and explosives-loaded aircraft

from taxiways and runways.

• Revises the definitions and

quantity-distance requirements,

particularly inter-magazine separation

requirements, for earth covered

magazines.

• Clarifies the requirements for

location of overhead electric services

lines with respect to ammunition and

explosives facilities.

• Expands and clarifies the

requirements for transporting materials

contaminated with chemical agents.

• Clarifies the criteria for containers

that may be used to monitor protective

clothing that may be used in chemical

agent areas.

• Modifies public traffic route

distance criteria by expanding traffic

density evaluations to include rail and

ship traffic, basing density on

passengers per day, and providing

guidance for evaluating traffic density to

clarify the use of minimum fragment

distances.

• Corrects inconsistencies with

current Hazard Division 1.6 ammunition

criteria, and harmonizes U.S. criteria

with NATO criteria.

• Establishes criteria applicable to the

use of revetments to separate

ammunition stored on pads or hung on

aircraft.

In adopting these changes, the DDESB

has determined that the Standards, as

changed, are at least as protective as the

previous Standards.

Dated: November 20, 1997.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is

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This is published to fulfill the

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Dated: November 20, 1997.

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Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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