This article examines PHMSA’s recent proposal to revise the HMR to allow DOT-approved fireworks certification agencies; see PHMSA 2010-0320 (HM-257), Fed. Reg. Vol. 77, No 169, 52636 et seq.. PHMSA is seeking comments regarding whether a two-track approach to securing approvals of explosives is both warranted and practical. One track is the current PHMSA approvals…
Frequent contact with law enforcement agents is an accepted part of doing business in the fireworks industry. Oftentimes, clients feel as if they are being treated unfairly by a law enforcement agent (e.g., police officer, fire marshal, ATFE agent) and, as a consequence, they want to sue the law enforcement agency, as well as the…
Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of another measure being proposed to regulate the fireworks industry. This feeling is likely shared by most readers; and, your pain is aptly echoed by a far greater authority of regulatory behavior, Billie Vincent, a former security director for the Federal Aviation Administration, who declared “Do you…
Dateline-Orlando, FL For those readers who could not attend the APA’s annual convention celebrating 60 years, you missed one spectacular event that was attended by hundreds of members of the APA, many of them fireworks royalty. The attraction of the APA annual convention is such that it seems as if every important industry member—in manufacturing,…
