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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