scope:

APPLICABILITY

These Standards:

Apply to DoD-titled AE wherever it is located.

Apply to DoD personnel and property when potentially endangered by known host-nation or off-installation AE hazards.

Govern DoD facilities siting and construction.

Apply to the evaluation of non-DoD explosives siting submissions on DoD installations

Existing facilities, or those approved for construction under then-current editions of these Standards. This exception applies for the balance of the useful lives of such facilities provided:

The facility continues to be used for its intended purpose.

The explosives safety hazards are not increased.

Redesign or modification is not practicable.

The quantity of AE cannot be reduced for reasons of operational necessity.

Those planned facilities that do not meet these Standards, but have been certified by the Head of the DoD Component as essential for operational or other compelling reasons.

To other situations that, upon analysis by both the DoD Component and the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB), are determined to provide the required degree of safety through use of protective construction or other specialized safety features.

The DoD Components must document the above exceptions in permanent records. These records must include:

The effective date the applicable Standards were first published.

The date the deviant facility was either approved, from an explosives safety viewpoint, for use or was first used in the deviating manner.