WASHINGTON, District of Columbia USA -- Responding at the eleventh hour to a mandate established by U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton, attorneys for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) today filed with the court the administrative record of the testing results they conducted in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory in support of the government's case that ammonium perchlorate composite propellant is properly classified as an explosive.
The lawsuit, brought by the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) and Tripoli Rocketry Association (TRA) challenges those test results. In a hearing earlier this month, Judge Walton specified the time line that the parties to the lawsuit would follow with regard to the submission of supporting documentation, the procedural responses to those submissions and the schedule to file for summary judgments. The initial date on that time line, October 31, 2006, was the date the BATFE was required to have filed the documentation supporting their position that resulted from the testing they conducted.
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