Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
15 December 1999
UNCLASSIFIED
, SUMMARY of CHANGE
DA PAM 385–64
Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards
This change 1--
o Incorporates recent changes to explosives safety criteria of DOD 6055.9-STD,
DOD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards.
o Incorporates requirements previously only contained in TM 206-1300-9
(rescinded) (para 2-6).
o Adds requirements for underground facilities (para3-23, para 5-13, figure 5-
10, and para 6-3c).
o Adds requirements for plans to provide safety, security, and environmental
protection in emergency response (para 3-24).
o Adopts DOD revisions to criteria for hazard division 1.2 (app I).
o Provides corrections to quantity-distance requirements for public highways
(para 5-6).
o Provides corrections to unbarricaded intraline distance requirements (para
5-6d(3)).
o Provides corrections to facilities siting criteria (chap 5).
o Provides corrections to magazine siting criteria (chap 5).
o Corrects/updates quantity-distance tables (chap 5)
o Adds requirements for surge suppression for incoming conductors to include
suppression at the entrance to the building from each wire to ground (para 6-
5b).
o Corrects qualification requirements for personnel responsible for electrical
maintenance, inspection and testing (para 6-13c(1)).
o Clarifies lighting protection electrical test requirements for earth covered
magazines (table 6-1).
o Corrects DD Form 626 inspection requirements motor vehicles loaded with
explosives, ammunition, or other hazardous material (para 7-7a and 7-8).
o Adds information on DOD explosives safety surveys (para 8-1f).
o Changes construction requirements for explosives buildings (para 8-5).
o Provides changes to requirements for barricaded open storage modules and
barricades and earth cover for magazines (para 8-29c, 8-29d(3), and 8-30).
,o Provides quantity-distance requirements for maritime prepositioning ships
(para 11-6d(7)) and table 11-13).
o Provides changes to lightning protection requirements (chap 12)
o Adds requirements from the Munitions Rule (para 13-29 and chap 19).
o Changes safety requirements for contingency deployment ammunition operations
in a less than wartime environment (chap 14).
o Changes safety requirements for wartime operations (chap 15).
o Changes earth covered magazine criteria (app G).
o Adds explosives safety program management requirements (app J).
o This new Department of the Army pamphlet--
o Implements and amplifies the explosives safety criteria depicted in DOD
6055.9-STD, DOD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards (chap 1).
o Defines general safety standards for Army operations involving ammunition
and/or explosives (chap 2).
o Establishes management controls for fire prevention, suppression and
protection as applicable to Army ammunition and explosives (chap 3).
o Provides an overview of the Joint Hazard Classification System (JHCS) and
establishes storage principles for the various compatibility groupings of
ammunition and explosives (chap 4).
o Establishes quantities of explosives material and distance separation
requirements that provide defined levels of protection (chap 5).
o Establishes requirements for the installation and use of electrical service
and equipment in Army explosives facilities (chap 6).
o Defines regulations and guidance regarding shipment of Army explosives and
other dangerous articles (chap 7).
o Establishes requirements and provides definitive material on the preparation
and submittal of explosives and toxic chemical site plans (chap 8).
o Explains the purpose, denotes minimum requirements and defines
responsibilities of the Army explosives licensing program (chap 9).
o Provides guidance on the appropriate usage of material handling equipment
(MHE) for ammunition and/or explosives operations (chap 10).
o Establishes requirements for the movement of Army units to ports during times
of war, peace, or national emergency (chap 11).
, o Provides the minimum technical criteria for lightning protection of
explosives areas and facilities (chap 12).
o Sets forth requirements for storage of ammunition and explosives within the
Army (chap 13).
o Establishes peacetime operational requirements concerning CONUS and OCONUS
ammunition and explosives activities, training operations, contingency force
operations and airfields used by military aircraft in the theater of
operations (chap 14).
o Provides guidance for the safe handling, transportation, and storage of
ammunition during wartime and contingency operations (chap 15).
o Defines the Army criteria pertaining to the storage and handling of
commercial explosives (chap 16).
o Provides guidance on the requirements and procedures for the disposal of
ammunition, explosives and propellants (chap 17).
o Establishes requirements and criteria relative to operations involving
maintenance and/or the restoration of ammunition and explosives to a
serviceable condition (chap 18).
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