RELATES TO: KRS 351.350, 351.990
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 351.335 requires the
Department for Natural Resources to promulgate rules and administrative
regulations concerning the manufacture, transportation, sale, storage, or use
of explosives and unassembled components of explosives, and the maintenance of
such explosives which has a direct bearing on safety to life and property. This
administrative regulation effects the provisions of that law.
Section 1. Underwater Blasting.
(1) A blaster shall conduct all blasting
operations, and no shot shall be fired without his approval.
(2) Loading tubes and casings of dissimilar
metals shall not be used because of possible electric transient currents from
galvanic action of the metals and water.
(3) Only water-resistant blasting caps and
detonating cords shall be used for all marine blasting. Loading shall be done
through a nonsparking metal loading tube when tube is necessary.
(4) No blast shall be fired while any vessel
under way is closer than 1,500 feet to the blasting area. Those on board
vessels or crafts moored or anchored within 1,500 feet shall be notified before
the blast is fired.
(5) No blast
shall be fired while any swimming or diving operations are in progress in the
vicinity of the blasting area. If such operations are in progress, signals and
arrangements shall be agreed upon to assure that no blast shall be fired while
any person is in the water.
(6)
Blasting flags shall be displayed.
(7) The storage and handling of explosives
aboard vessels used in underwater blasting operations shall be according to the
provisions outlined herein on handling and storing explosives.
(8) When more than one (1) charge is placed
underwater, a float device shall be attached to an element of each charge in
such a manner that it will be released by the firing. Misfires shall be handled
in accordance with the requirements of
805 KAR 4:140.
