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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Other Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Disposal of Neutralent Wastes: Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10091.
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B

Committee Meetings and Other Activities 1

First Committee Meeting, June 15–17, 1999
National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

Presentations:

Opening Remarks, Program Update, Year 2 Task and Sponsor Expectations

Wayne Jennings

Project Manager, Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel (PMNSCM)

Current Status of Rapid Response System (RRS)

Larry Friedman

PMNSCM

Current Status of Munitions Management Device (MMD)-1/2/3

Alan Caplan and Jerry Hawks

PMNSCM

Current Status of the Explosive Destruction System (EDS) and Single CAIS Neutralization System (SCANS)

Mike Duggan and Ed Doyle

PMNSCM

Current Status of Munitions Assessment and Processing System (MAPS), Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy (PINS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), and Raman Spectroscopy

Ed Doyle and Bill Brankowitz

PMNSCM

RRS and MMD Neutralization Wastes and Existing/ Expected Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel to be Treated and Air Monitoring

John Gieseking

PMNSCM

Plan and Current Status of the Army's Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA) Program

Carl Eissner

Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

Plan and Current Status of the Alternative Technologies and Approaches Project

Nick Levitt

Project Manager, Alternative Technologies and Approaches

Plan and Current Status of Mitretek Technology Survey

Project for PMNSCM

George Bizzigotti

Mitretek

Public and Stakeholder Concerns

Elizabeth Crowe

Non-Stockpile Citizens Coalition

Plan and Current Status of Stone & Webster Technology

Survey Project for PMNSCM

Joseph Cardito

Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation

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The committee gathered additional information via telephone conference calls and by other means. Details are available on line at: http://www4nas.edu/cets/dmst.nsf/

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Other Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Disposal of Neutralent Wastes: Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10091.
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Closing Comments

Col. Ned Libby

PMNSCM

Second Committee Meeting
Tour of Training Facility and Briefings
August 31–September 1, 1999
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

Presentations:

Tour of Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility

Andrew Roach

Project Manager, Chemical Demilitarization Operations

Tour of Explosive Destruction System

Ray DiBerardio

Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel

ACWA Report Findings

Robert Beaudet, chair

Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons

Non-Stockpile Program Status

LTC Chris Ross

Program Manager, NSPCM

Third Committee Meeting, October 14–15, 1999
National Research Council, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Presentations:

Non-Stockpile Program Status

LTC Chris Ross/Wayne Jennings

NSPCM

ACWA Program

James Richmond

ACWA Program

Stone & Webster Progress Report

Joseph Cardito

Stone & Webster

Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies

Dr. Francis W. (Bill) Holm

Consultant

Fourth Committee Meeting, December 15–16, 1999
National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

Two-day writing session. No presentations.

Fifth Committee Meeting, February 22–23, 2000
National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

Presentations:

Stone & Webster Progress Report

Joseph Cardito

Stone & Webster

Non-Stockpile Chemical Weapons Citizens Coalition

Elizabeth Crowe

Non-Stockpile Chemical Weapons Citizens Coalition

Sixth Committee Meeting, May 8–9, 2000
National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

Presentation:

U.S. Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Product

(NSCMP) Project Overview/Status

William R. Brankowitz

Deputy Product Manager, NSCMP

Seventh Committee Meeting, August 29–30, 2000
National Research Council, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Presentations:

Non-Stockpile Program Status

LTC Chris Ross/Wayne Jennings

NSPCM

Stone & Webster Progress Report

Joseph Cardito

Stone & Webster

Transportable Batch Hydrothermal Oxidizer for Non-stockpile Chemical Material

Brent L. Haroldson and Ben Wu

Sandia National Laboratories

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Other Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Disposal of Neutralent Wastes: Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10091.
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SITE VISITS

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, and Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah, August 3–4, 1999

Site Team

John C. Allen

Joan B. Berkowitz

Judith A. Bradbury

Martin C. Edelson

Sidney J. Green

Douglas M. Medville

Winifred G. Palmer

Ronald L. Woodfin

NRC Staff

Michael Clarke

Delphine D. Glaze

Gregory Eyring

Tour of Rapid Response System at Deseret Chemical Depot

Hosts: Michael Nuttle, Harold Oliver, Walter Levi, Brett Simms

Meeting with Utah Citizens Advisory Council (CAC)

CAC members present: Dave Ostler, Rosemary Holt, John Matthews, Dan Bauer

Tour of Supercritical Water Oxidation Facility at Dugway Proving Ground

Hosts: William Dement, Charles Donaldson, Andrew Nifsi, Beryl Schwartz, Robert Edgin, Donald Spina, Bud Salzburg, Michael Spritzer

ViVendor Test Facility, San Diego, California, March 2, 2000

Site Team

Robert A. Beaudet

Judith A. Bradbury

Martin C. Edelson

Douglas M. Medville

Greg Eyring

Jane Williams (Sierra Club)

Tour of Ventless Incineration at ViVendor Test Facility

Host: Gere Johansing

CerOx Corporation, Reno, Nevada, March 21, 2000

Site Team

Richard J. Ayen

Robert A. Beaudet

Joan B. Berkowitz

Paul F. Kavanaugh

Sterling J. Rideout (NRC study director)

Tour of CerOx Corporation Electrochemical Cerium Process

Hosts: Dr. Steven Oberg (University of Nevada-Reno), Marty Scanlon, Thomas Neustedter, Fred Coppotelli

Meeting with EPA Regulators, Stephen Heare, Jeffrey Gaines, and Carl Duly (via telephone), Rosslyn, Virginia, April 28, 2000

Site Team

Judith A. Bradbury

Douglas M. Medville

William J.Walsh

Sterling J. Rideout (NRC study director)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Other Activities." National Research Council. 2001. Disposal of Neutralent Wastes: Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10091.
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Chemical warfare materiel (CWM) is a collection of diverse items that were used during 60 years of efforts by the United States to develop a capability for conducting chemical warfare. Nonstockpile CWM, which is not included in the current U.S. inventory of chemical munitions, includes buried materiel, recovered materiel, binary chemical weapons, former production facilities, and miscellaneous materiel. CWM that was buried in pits on former military sites is now being dug up as the land is being developed for other purposes. Other CWM is on or near the surface at former test and firing ranges. According to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which was ratified by the United States in April 1997, nonstockpile CWM items in storage at the time of ratification must be destroyed by 2007.

The U.S. Army is the designated executive agent for destroying CWM. Nonstockpile CWM is being handled by the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program (NSCMP); stockpile CWM is the responsibility of the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program. Because nonstockpile CWM is stored or buried in many locations, the Army is developing transportable disposal systems that can be moved from site to site as needed. The Army has plans to test prototypes of three transportable systems—the rapid response system (RRS), the munitions management device (MMD), and the explosive destruction system (EDS)—for accessing and destroying a range of nonstockpile chemical agents and militarized industrial chemicals. The RRS is designed to treat recovered chemical agent identification sets (CAIS), which contain small amounts of chemical agents and a variety of highly toxic industrial chemicals. The MMD is designed to treat nonexplosively configured chemical munitions. The EDS is designed to treat munitions containing chemical agents with energetics equivalent to three pounds of TNT or less. These munitions are considered too unstable to be transported or stored. A prototype EDS system has recently been tested in England by non-stockpile program personnel. Although originally proposed for evaluation in this report, no test data were available to the committee on the composition of wastes from the EDS. Therefore, alternative technologies for the destruction of EDS wastes will be discussed in a supplemental report in fall 2001. Treatment of solid wastes, such as metal munition bodies, packing materials, and carbon air filters, were excluded from this report.

Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Disposal of Neutralent Wastes evaluates the near-term (1999-2005) application of advanced (nonincineration) technologies, such as from the Army's Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program and the Alternative Technologies and Approaches Project, in a semi-fixed, skid-mounted mode to process Rapid Response System, Munitions Management Device, and Explosive Destruction System liquid neutralization wastes.

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