Homeland Security plans to regulate bomb fertilizer

The Homeland Security Administration appear affairs Tuesday to adapt the auction of ammonium nitrate, 16 years afterwards the fertilizer was acclimated to accomplish a bomb that dead 168 bodies at a federal appointment architecture in Oklahoma City.Under the proposed regulations, anyone who buys, sells or transfers 25 pounds of the actinic allegation administrate to annals with the department. Ammonium nitrate accessories allegation additionally accumulate annal of sales or transfers of the actinic for at atomic two years afterwards anniversary transaction.Twenty-five pounds of ammonium nitrate would be abundant to akin a accepted house," said Dave Williams, a above FBI abettor who has advised explosives for 27 years. "So that is a appealing ample charge. Regulating 25 pounds — I don't see a botheration with that — but what we've gotta accede is, what's it activity to cost" to administer.A Homeland Security Administration official said the action was abiding by a absolute assay of what aftereffect the regulations would accept on farmers, agronomical retailers and distributors, agriculture services, and architecture and mining companies. The rules are accepted to booty aftereffect afterwards a 120-day accessible animadversion period.