DOD 6055.9-STD CHAPTER 12 UPDATE

New Chapter 12 Terms (Cont.)Ordnance Safety & Security Activity• Material that Presents a Potential Explosive Hazard (MPPEH).Material potentially containing explosives or munitions, orcontaminated with a high enough concentration of explosivessuch that the material presents an explosive hazard. Suchmaterial includes, but may not be limited to: munitionscomponents; munitions containers and packaging materiel;munitions debris (scrap metals, plastics, etc.) remaining aftermunitions use; equipment and munition debris related toresearch, development, testing and evaluation; range-relateddebris; targets; and residues resulting from production ordemilitarization. Excluded from MPPEH are other hazardousmaterials (e.g., gasoline, compressed gas, etc.) that are not amunition and are not intended for use as a munition.16