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(h) Components, instruments, accessorics and attachments peculiarly mili tary in nature which are installed in or attached to tactical aircraft shall be considered as major components.

§ 121.7 Definition of helium. The word "helium" shall be understood to mean "contained helium" at standard atmospheric pressure (14.7 pounds per square inch) and 70° Fahrenheit. The term "contained helium" means the actual quantity of the element helium (i. e. 100 percent pure helium) in terms of cubic feet present in a mixture of helium and other gases. Purity determinations shall be made by usually recognized methods.

§ 121.8 Unclassified technical data. (a) The term "technical data" refers to any professional, scientific, or technical information, including any model design, photographic negative, document or other article or material, containing a plan, specification, or descriptive or technical information of any kind which can be used or adapted for use in connection with any process, synthesis, or operation in the production, manufacture, or reconstruction of articles or materials.

(b) As used in Category XVIII of the United States Munitions List the term "technical data" refers to any unclassified technical data relating to arms, ammunition and implements of war.

$121.9 Classified technical data. Classified technical data is included under Category XVII, and refers to any material or information which has been officially assigned a security classification, i. e., "top secret", "secret", or "confidential" by any officer or agency of the United States Government.

§ 121.10 Advanced technical data material. Unclassified technical data as used in §§ 125.22 and 125.23 of this chapter is considered to contain advanced plans, specifications, design, processing and manufacturing techniques when it has not been reviewed by competent technical personnel of the United States Government with respect to its possible military implications.

ENUMERATION OF ARTICLES

§ 121.21 United States Munitions List. Pursuant to the authority cited supra the following articles are hereby designated as arms, ammunition, and implements of war.

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CATEGORY III-AMMUNITION

(a) Ammunition of caliber .22 or over for the arms enumerated in Categories I and II hereof, except caliber .22 rim-fire ammunition.

(b) The following components, parts, accessories, and attachments: cartridge cases, powder bags, bullets, jackets, cores, shells (excluding shotgun), projectiles, boosters, percussion caps, fuses or fuzes and components thereof, primers, and other detonating devices for such ammunition. CATEGORY IV-BOMBS, TORPEDOES, ROCKETS, MINES, AND GUIDED MISSILES

(a) Bombs, torpedoes, grenades (including smoke grenades), smoke canisters, rockets, guided missiles, depth charges, chemical and incendiary bombs.

(b) Apparatus and devices for the handling, control, activation, discharge, detonation or detection of items enumerated in paragraph (a) of this category, including inter alia the following components and parts: fuses or fuzes and components thereof; bomb racks and shackles; bomb shackle release units; bomb ejectors; torpedo tubes; torpedo and guided missile boosters; launching racks and projectors; control mechanisms and control systems; pistols (exploders); igniters; fuze or fuse arming devices; and the following items related thereto : intervalometers and components thereof; bomb lift trucks; bomb and torpedo handling trucks; trailers, hoists, and skids for handling bombs; guided missile launchers, and specialized handling equipment.

(c) Land and naval mines and equipment for the laying, detection, detonation, and sweeping of mines. Components, parts, attachments, and accessories specifically designed for mine laying, mine detection and detonation, and mine sweeping equipment.

(d) Missile power plants and components and parts specifically designed therefor.

CATEGORY V-FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND RANGE FINDERS

(a) Fire control, gun and missile tracking and guidance, infrared, and other nightsighting equipment; range, position, and height finders, and spotting instruments; aiming devices (electronic, gyroscopic, optic, and acoustic); bomb sights; bombing computers, military television sighting units, inertial platforms; gun sights, and periscopes for the articles enumerated throughout this List.

(b) Components, parts, accessories, and attachments specifically designed for the articles enumerated in paragraph (a) of this category.

CATEGORY VI-TANKS AND ORDNANCE VEHICLES

(a) Tanks;

(b) Military type armed or armored vehicles, and vehicles fitted with mountings for arms and other specifically designed military vehicles;

(c) Military half tracks;

(d) Military type tank recovery vehicles; (e) Gun carriers;

(f) Trailers specifically designed to carry ammunition;

(g) Amphibious vehicles (See § 121.24); (h) All specifically designed components, parts and attachments for the foregoing;

(1) Military mobile repair shops specifically designed to service military equipment.

CATEGORY VII-TOXICOLOGICAL AGENTS

(a) Chemical agents, including tear gas (See § 121.25);

(b) Biological agents adapted for use in war to produce death or disablement in human beings or animals or to damage crops;

(c) Equipment for the dissemination, detection, and identification of, and defense against, the items in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this category;

(d) Components, parts, attachments, and accessories specifically designed for the equipment described in paragraph (c) above. CATEGORY VIII-PROPELLANTS, EXPLOSIVES AND INCENDIARY AGENTS

(a) Propellants for the articles enumerated in Categories III and IV hereof (See § 121.26);

(b) Military high explosives (See § 121.26); (c) Military fuel thickeners (See § 121.26); (d) Military pyrotechnics, including projectors therefor.

CATEGORY IX-VESSELS OF WAR AND SPECIAL
NAVAL EQUIPMENT

(a) Warships, amphibious warfare vessels, landing craft, mine warfare vessels, patrol vessels, auxiliary vessels, service craft, floating dry docks, and experimental types of naval ships. Turrets and gun mounts, missile systems, arresting gear, special weapons systems, protective systems, submarine storage batteries, catapults and other ponents, parts, attachments and accessories specifically designed for the following types of

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(a) Aircraft and airborne equipment (See § 121.5);

(b) All components, parts and accessories for aircraft. This does not include ground handling and maintenance equipment or bulk materials, such as dopes, paints, oils, cable, wire, tubing, hose, and aluminum sheets.

(c) Miscellaneous equipment used with aircraft, as follows:

(1) Catapults and cartridge-actuated devices utilized in emergency escape of personnel from aircraft;

(2) Pressurized breathing equipment and partial pressure suits for use in aircraft, anti "G" suits, military crash helmets, aircraft liquid oxygen converters, complete parachutes utilized for personnel, cargo, or deceleration purposes and complete harnesses and platforms therefor. Components and parts specifically designed for such articles.

(3) Aircraft landing mats, launching and recovery equipment.

CATEGORY XI-MILITARY ELECTRONICS

(a) Electronics equipment specially designed for military use, including equipment specially designed for altitudes above 50,000 feet or at temperatures of 500° centigrade or above;

(b) Radar of all types;

(c) Electronic countermeasure and jamming equipment;

(d) Military underwater sound equipment;

communications-electronics

(e) Military equipment bearing a military designation; (f) Electronic navigation and locationfinding aids (see § 121.28);

systems

(g) Radio distance measuring such as Shoran; and hyperbolic grid systems, such as Raydist, Loran, and Decca;

(h) Components, parts, accessories and attachments specifically designed for use with equipment enumerated above (see also § 121.29).

CATEGORY XII-PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT

Aerial cameras and special purpose military cameras and specialized processing Equipment therefor; military photointerpretation, stereoscopic plotting and photogrammetry equipment.

CATEGORY XIII-SPECIAL

ARMORED EQUIPMENT

(a) Armor plate; (b) Armored railway trains;

(c) Military steel and nylon helmets; (d) Body armor and flak suits, and components and parts specifically designed for such articles.

CATEGORY XIV-SPECIALIZED MILITARY TRAINING

EQUIPMENT

(a) Specialized military training equipment (See § 121.30);

(b) Components, parts, attachments, and accessories specifically designed for such equipment.

CATEGORY XV-HELIUM GAS

CATEGORY XVI-MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES

(a) Cryptographic devices (encoding and decoding);

(b) Self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus and components and auxiliary equipment specifically designed therefor;

(c) Protective clothing for guided missile fuel handling.

CATEGORY XVII-CLASSIFIED MATERIAL

All material not enumerated herein which is classified from the standpoint of military security.

CATEGORY XVIII-TECHNICAL DATA

Unclassified technical data relating to the articles herein designated as arms, ammunition, and implements of war.

[Dept. Reg. 108.354, 22 F. R. 11017, Dec. 31, 1957]

INTERPRETATIONS

SOURCE: §§ 121.22 to 121.30 contained in Departmental Regulation 108.354, 22 F. R. 11019, Dec. 31, 1957.

§ 121.22 Forgings, castings, and machine bodies. Items in a partially completed state, such as forgings, casting, extrusions, and machined bodies of any of the articles enumerated in the United States Munitions List which have reached a stage in manufacture where they are clearly identifiable as arms, ammunition, and implements of war are so considered for the purposes of section 414 of the Mutual Security Act.

§ 121.23 Small arms. Category I does not include shotguns, air-rifles or muzzle-loading guns, blunderbusses and stud drivers.

§ 121.24 Amphibious vehicles. As used in Category VI (g), the term "amphibious vehicles" includes but is not limited to, automotive vehicles or chassis embodying all-wheel drive and equipped, to meet special military requirements, with adaptation features for deep-water fording and sealed electrical systems.

§ 121.25 Chemical agents. (See Category VII.) The term "chemical agents"

includes but is not limited to: cyanogen chloride, hydrogen cyanide, diphosgene, fluorine (but not fluorene), Lewisite gas, mustard gas (dichlorodiethyl sulfide), phenylcarbylamine chloride, phosgene, chloracetophenone, phenyl chlomethyl hetone, adamsite (diphenylaminochloroarsine), dibromodimethyl ether, dichlorodimethyl ether, diphenylchloroarsine, diphenylcyanarsine, ethyldibromoarsine, ethyldichloroarsine, methyldichloroarsine, phenyldibromoarsine, phenyldichloroarsine, cyanodimethylaminoethyloxyphosphine oxide, fluoroisopropoxymethylphosphine oxide, fluoromethylpinaeolyloxyphosphine oxide, and related

compounds.

§ 121.26 Propellants, explosives, and incendiary agents. (See Category VIII.) (a) The term "propellants" includes but is not limited to the following:

Hydrazine.

Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine. Hydrogen peroxide over 85 percent concentration.

Nitroguanadine or picrite.

Nitrocellulose with nitrogen content of over 12.20 percent.

Other solid propellant compositions, including but not limited to the following: (1) Single base (nitrocellulose).

(2) Double base (nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin).

(3) Triple base (nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, nitroguanadine).

(4) Composite (nitroglycerin, ammonium perchlorate, nitrocellulose with plastics or rubbers added).

(5) Special purpose chemical base high energy solid military fuels.

Other liquid propellant compositions, including but not limited to the following: (1) Mono-propellants (hydrazine, nitrate, and water).

(2) Bi-propellants (hydrazine-fuming nitric acid (HNO1)).

(3) Special purpose chemical base high energy liquid military fuels.

(b) The term "military high explosives" includes but is not limited to one or more of the following materials or mixtures with various powdered metals: ammonium picrate, black soda powder, postassium nitrate powder, hexanitrodiphenylamine, ammonium perchlorate, nitrocellulose, nitrostarch, nitroglycerin, pentaerythritol tetranitrate, (penthrite, pentrite or PETN), trinitrophenylmethyl-nitramine (tetryl), trinitrophenol (picric acid), ethylenedinitramine, cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine, (RDX, Cyclonite, Hexogen or T4), cyclotetramethylene-tetranitramine (HMX), hex

anitrodiphenylamine, trinitroanisol, trinitronaphthalene, dinitronaphthalene, tetranitronaphthalene, trinitrotoluene (TNT), and trinitroxylene. Explosive mixtures or devices which are not listed above but which contain minor quantitites of the types of explosives listed here are not considered to be arms, ammunition, and implements of

war.

(c) The term "military fuel thickeners" includes: compounds (e. g., octal) or mixtures of such compounds (e. g., napalm) specifically formulated for the purpose of producing materials which, when added to petroleum products, provide a jell-type incendiary material for use in bombs, projectiles, flame throwers or other implements of war.

§ 121.27 Vessels of war and special naval equipment. (See Category IX). The term "vessels of war" includes but is not limited to the following:

(a) Combatant vessels and craft.
(1) Warships.

Battleships (BB, BBG).
Command ships (CBC, CLC).

Cruisers (CA, CAG, CB, CL, CLAA, CLG, CG, CG (N).

Aircraft carriers (CVA, CVA (N), CVE, CVHE, CVL, CVS).

Destroyers (DD, DDC, DDE, DDG, DDR, DL, DLG).

Submarines (SS, SS (N), SSG, SSK, SSR, SSR (N), SST, ASSA, ASSP, AK (SS), AP (SS)).

(2) Amphibious warfare vessels. Amphibious force flagship (AGC). Attack cargo ship (AKA).

Transports (APA, APD).

Assault helicopter aircraft carrier (CVHA). Control escort vessel (DEC). Inshore fire support ship (IFS). Landing ships (LSSL, LSD, LSM, LSMR, LST, SLFF, LSIL, LSV).

Amphibious assault ship (LPH).

(3) Landing craft. (LCI, LCT-A, LCC, LCM, LCU, LCVP, LVT, LVT-A, LCPL, LCPR). (4) Mine warfare vessels.

Minelayers (DM, MMF, MMA, MMC, MM). Minesweepers (IMS, MSA, MSC (O), MSC, MSF, MSO).

Mine warfare command and support ship (MCS).

Mine hunter (MRC).

(5) Patrol vessels.

Escort vessels (DE, DEC, DER, PCE, PCER,

PCEC, PF).

Submarine chasers (PC, PCE, SC). Gunboats (PR, PGM).

Converted yachts (PY).

Motor torpedo boat (PT).

(b) Naval auxiliary and service vessels and

craft.

(1) Tenders (AD, AGP, ARST, AS, AV, AVP, YDT).

(2) Logistic support ships (AE, AF, AK, AKS, AO, AOG, AOR, AO (SS), AVS).

rescue

(3) Repair, salvage and vessels (AR, ARB, ARG, ARH, ARI, ARS, ARSD, ARV, ARVA, ARVE, ASR).

(4) Floating dry docks, cranes, and associated workshops and lighters (AB, AFDB, AFDL, AFDM, ARD, YD, YFD, YFMD, YR, YRDM, YRDM, YRL, YSD).

(5) Degaussing vessel (ADG). (6) Icebreaker (AGB).

(7) Survey ships (AGS, AGSC).

(8) Cable repairing or laying ship (ARC). (9) Tugs (ATA, ATF, ATR, YTB, YTL, YTM).

(10) Net laying and tending ships (AKN, AN, YNG).

(11) Transports and barracks vessels (AP, APB, APC, APL, YHB, YRB, YRBM). (12) Miscellaneous cargo ships (AKD, AKL, AKV).

(13) Auxiliary submarine (AG(SS)). (14) Distilling ship (AW).

(15) Utility aircraft carrier (OVU). (16) Minecraft (MSB, MSI, XMAP, YMP, YMS).

(17) Patrol craft (PT, YP, PYC).

(18) Ocean radar station ship (YAGR). (19) Advanced base aviation ship (AVB). (20) Guided missile ship (AVM).

(21) Naval barges and lighters (AVC, YC, YCF, YCK, YCV, YF, YFN, YFNB, YFNG, YFNX, YFP, YFR, YFRN, YFRT, YFT, YG, YGN, YO, YOG, YOGN, YON, YOS, YPK, YRL, YSR, YTT, YVC, YW, YWN, YFB). (22) Target Training Submarine

(SST).

and

(23) Submersible craft (X). (24) Naval dredge (YM).

(25) Floating pile drive (YPD).

(26) Drone aircraft catapult control craft (YV).

(27) Miscellaneous

YAG).

auxiliary (AG, IX,

(c) Coast Guard patrol and service vessels and craft.

(1) Submarine repair and berthing barge (YRB).

(2) Labor transportation barracks ship (APL).

(3) Coast Guard cutter (CGC).

(4) Gun boat (WPG).

(5) Patrol craft (WPC, WSC, WPG).

(6) Sea plane tender (WAVP). (7) Ice breaker (WAGB).

(8) Cargo ship (WAK).

(9) Buoy tenders and boats (WAGL, WD). (10) Cable layer (WARC).

(11) Lightship (WAL).
(12) CG tugs (WAT, WXT).

(13) Radio ship (WAGR).

(14) Special vessel (WIX).

(15) Auxiliary vessels (WAG, WAGE).

(16) Other Coast Guard patrol or rescue

craft over 300 horsepower capacity.

(d) Air Force craft. Air Force crash rescue

boat.

(e) Army vessels and craft.

(1) Transportation Corps tug-100 ft. (LT), 65 ft. (ST), T-boat, Q-boat, J-boat, B-boat.

(2) Barges (BG, BC, BR, BK, BSP, BSPI, BKI, BCF, BBL, BARC).

(3) Cranes, floating (BD).
(4) Dry dock, floating (FDL).

(5) Repair ship, floating (FMS).

(6) Trainer, amphibious 20 ton wheeled tow boat, inland waterway (LTI, STI).

§ 121.28 Electronic navigation and location-finding aids. In Category XI (f), the term "electronic navigation and location-finding aids" includes but is not limited to military radio direction-finding and doppler navigational equipment, gyro-magnetic and slaved-gyro compasses and heading reference systems; automatic astro compasses; star trackers; and remote sighting and photoelectric sextants.

§ 121.29 Cathode ray tubes-quartz crystals. Cathode ray tubes or quartz crystals are subject to the licensing jurisdiction of the Secretary of State only when intended for use with military electronics equipment and shipped with such items.

§ 121.30 Specialized military training equipment. (See Category XIV.) The term "specialized military training equipment" includes but is not limited to, link type trainers, attack trainers, operational flight trainers, radar target trainers, radar target generators, gunnery training devices, anti-submarine warfare trainers, flight simulators, radar trainers, instrument flight trainers, navigation trainers, target equipment, drones and drone power plants, armament trainers, pilotless aircraft trainers, and mobile training units.

Sec.

122.1

122.2

Part 122-Registration

Persons required to register.

Production for experimental or scientific purposes.

122.3 Application for registration. 122.4 Certificate of registration. 122.5

122.6

Notification of changes in information furnished by registrants. Maintenance of records by persons réquired to register as manufacturers, importers or exporters of United States Munitions List articles.

AUTHORITY: §§ 122.1 to 122.6 issued under sec. 414, 68 Stat. 848; 22 U. S. C. 1934, sec. 103, E. O. 10575, 19 F. R. 7251, 3 CFR 1954 Supp.

SOURCE: §§ 122.1 to 122.6 appear at 22 F. R. 10876, Dec. 27, 1957.

§ 122.1 Persons required to register. Persons engaged in the business, within the United States, its territories or pos

sessions, of manufacturing or exporting or importing articles enumerated in the United States Munitions List are required to register with the Secretary of State.

§ 122.2 Production for experimental or scientific purposes. The fabrication of arms, ammunition, and implements of war for experimental or scientific purposes including research and development is not considered as manufacture for the purposes of section 414 of the Mutual Security Act.

§ 122.3 Application for registration. (a) Applications for registration shall be submitted to the Secretary of State on forms prescribed by him and shall be accompanied by a registration fee in the form of a postal money order or a check payable to the Department of State.

(b) Registration can be effected for periods of one year or four years upon payment of a fee of $75 or $300, respectively, at the option of the registrant.

§ 122.4 Certificate of registration. (a) Upon receipt of an application for registration properly executed, accompanied by the registration fee, the Secretary of State shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration valid for one year if $75 is paid or for four years if $300 is paid. Certificates of registration are not transferable. Certificates of registration are renewable for a further period of one year if a renewal fee of $75 is paid or for four years if a renewal fee of $300 is paid and the fee payment is accompanied by an application for registration properly executed on the prescribed form.

(b) Registration certificates issued prior to April 1, 1955, shall remain in effect during the period of validity indicated therein, without any additional fee being required.

(c) A refund of the registration fee covering a single year or a part thereof cannot be made by reason of changed conditions or new facts developed subsequent to the issuance of the registration certificate.

§ 122.5 Notification of changes in information furnished by registrants. Registered persons shall notify the Secretary of State of any change in the information set forth in their applications for registration. Upon receipt of such information an amended certificate of registration including this information will be issued if appropriate. An amended certificate of registration will be is

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