Effects of getting a LEUP...

I have just recieved an application to get a LEUP. I live in CA, if that makes any difference to the question I am asking. Here is the question... Durring the process or there after recieving a LEUP will I have government inspectors comming to my house for periodic inspections?
I don't know if I want them snooping around my house. One of my concerns is that I have been making my own motors (most of which are less than the 62.5 grams mentioned on this newsgroup). The larger ones I have used up and will discontinue making if it is required. But at the same time I have been testing up to D size motors in my garage in a 6ft x 4 x 4 ft steel test cell I built to contain the exhaust gas and contain any CATO event. It works great. But if the ATF people saw it I am affraid it would not be a good thing. This is why I am hesetant to have them come and inspect my home. If I go through with the LEUP will I need to get rid of this test cell and suspend motor making?
Thanks for the help, KT

It's me again. I guess I should have used a spell checker for the 1st post. Oh well.
A clarification to the original question. I am applying for just the LEUP. No storage addendum. This might affect the answer about making and testing motors. I live in a community that has outlawed fire works of any kind including sparklers. So having homemade motors in my garage might be a problem and since getting permission from the local fire department in order to get a storage addendum to my LEUP is pretty much out of the question where I live. So I will be just getting the LEUP with out storage. What a mess to live in good old CA.
KT

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There is no such thing as a LEUP without storage. The BATFE will require you to have 'contingency' storage - someplace to go with any motor(s) you may have left over after a launch or otherwise that remain in your possession. You will need to arrange with *someone*, either another LEUP holder or perhap the vendor you use to store for you.

Ok,
the question is still are they going to come and inspect initially or on a periodic basis?
KT

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They generally only do inspections of the storage. I am doing storage for myself and two others. The last guy who had to renew his LEUP, the ATF agent came to my house to check out the storage. They never visited his house as they have no reason to.
The ATF is supposed to do at least one "suprise" compliance inspection during each three year license period, but I haven't seen an agent since my last renewal. In my case, I'm usually not home during the hours when the ATF would come by, so they show up and then have to call to schedule the compliance inspection.
This reminds that my LEUP expires this fall and I better start the renewal process.
Brian Elfert

Please insist that the ATF provide you with the proper renewal form as required by 27 CFR 555.46
This form must exist as it is currently under review by the OMB in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act.
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Is there a different renewal form than the initial application form? I don't remember from my last renewal three years ago.
Brian Elfert

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:58:50 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote:
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If you local govt will not let you have a permit, neither will ATF.
Phil

snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote:
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As a documented user of low explosives, your blip on their radar will be larger than the rest of the community. By signing their papers, you give them permission to investigate you and your premises if they have a reason. The "reason" they come up with can be totally arbitrary and completely up to them. (Remember, they think rocket motor propellant explodes!)
But, probably nuthin' bad will happen...
steve

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:24:13 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@pacbell.net wrote:
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If you have a LEUP, you are subject to periodic inspections. I had one when I initially got my LEUP, one when I renewed it and one right after 9/11. My stuff is in an attached garage. They did not go looking around in the house. Home made propellant does not require a LEUP so I wouldn't be concerned about it but I also wouldn't leave it out in front of their face either. That's a hefty test stand for a D. I doubt if any of the inspectors I had would know what it was but there again, I wouldn't stick it in his face. A plastic tapr will keep it clean, dry & out of site.
Phil

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He isn't planning to have his own storage so the ATF will likely never even visit his location.
In my experience, the ATf agent never goes beyond looking at the magazine and where the magazine will be. They don't go into your house and they don't poke around in your garage either. Their main concerns are that no gasoline, propane, paint, or other flammables are near the magazine.
Brian Elfert

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Who has a garage with no gasoline in it? Got only electric cars out where you live?

kaplow snipped-for-privacy@encompasserve.org.mars (Bob Kaplow) writes:
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The ATF just wants to be sure you don't have a gas can on the same shelf as the magazine or something like that. Gas cans on the other side of the garage are okay. They are not concerned about where cars park.
It makes no sense as the car is full of gasoline that is more explosive than any APCP motor.
Brian Elfert

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You are confusing "The ATF" with the individulal inspectors that came to visit. Gasoline has never been an issue with the individual inspectors that visited me. It would not surprise me if a different one came out the next time and did ask about it.
Phil

Brian Elfert wrote:
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Really? What part of the orange book describes these requirements?

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I am just going by what the agents have said when they come to my garage. I don't have the orange book memorized.
Brian Elfert

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It's Calvinball. They make up the rules as they go.

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Why are you telling me this -
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And you pretty much repeat what I said? Am I missing something. We are both answering the question he asked.
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As seemingly relevent as it is, I've never been asked to move flamables away from my magazine.
Phil

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I was told that since I had flammables (a partial gallon each of acetone and mineral spirits and some spray paint) and a gas hot water heater in my garage, I would be required to install a power ventilation system and move the flammables to another area of the garage. I said I'd never seen that in the requirements and was told that putting in a vent would be easy compared to getting a permit if I challenged her recommendation.
So I installed a power ventilation system.
Didn't much matter though, the Houston Fire Marshall refused to allow it. Said I needed a Houston Explosives Permit. Houston doesn't (didn't?) differentiate between high and low explosives. I had to have a dynamite rated storage facility 75' away from any occupied building. He went on to tell me that no one would ever come looking for my rocket motors and told me to just "do what ever you want to do illegally. Leave us the hell alone and we won't bother you!" Direct quote.
Never did get my permit. But I did move my flammables and install power ventilation.
Dave

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:13:13 GMT, "David Bacque"
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Don't you love the consistency?
Phil