2017 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 05:24:33 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "US industrial base at risk for key rocket motor ingredient"
 
US industrial base at risk for key rocket motor ingredient

By Jen Judson
Defense News
June 21, 2017 

WASHINGTON - A California Republican congressman included a provision near the bottom of a proposed act dealing with domestic strategic materials that would restrict companies manufacturing rocket motors for the Department of Defense and NASA to source its oxidizer for its solid-propellant rocket boosters from within the United States.

The only problem is there is just one U.S. company that manufactures the key chemical compound known as ammonium perchlorate, or AP, and industry isn’t happy that its flexibility to obtain the best priced substance through competition outside of the U.S. could be in jeopardy.

Rep. Duncan Hunter introduced a bill to the House Armed Services Committee in March called the Materials Essential to American Leadership and Security Act, or the METALS Act, that would help domestic producers of strategic and critical materials.

The provision pertaining to ammonium perchlorate states that beginning no later than 180 days after enactment of the legislation, the defense secretary must “ensure that any covered AP is obtained from sources inside the United States.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/us-industrial-base-at-risk-for-key-rocket-motor-ingredient

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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