# Munitions Response Site Prioritization Protocol
> **US Department of Defense** · Final rule. · Published 2005-10-05 · Effective 2005-10-05 · 70 FR 58016
## Document
- **Document number:** 05-19696
- **Category:** weapons-system
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Defense
- **Federal Register citation:** 70 FR 58016
- **CFR reference:** 32 CFR 179
- **Publication date:** 2005-10-05
- **Effective date:** 2005-10-05
## Abstract

The Department of Defense (hereinafter the Department) is promulgating the Munitions Response Site (MRS) Prioritization Protocol (MRSPP) (hereinafter referred to as the rule) as a rule. This rule implements the requirement established in section 311(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 for the Department to assign a relative priority for munitions responses to each location (hereinafter MRS) in the Department's inventory of defense sites known or suspected of containing unexploded ordnance (UXO), discarded military munitions (DMM), or munitions constituents (MC).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2005/10/05/05-19696/munitions-response-site-prioritization-protocol)
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