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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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Appendix B
Committee Meetings

FIRST MEETING
FEBRUARY 22-24, 2011, ABERDEEN, MARYLAND

Objectives

•  Conduct National Research Council (NRC) introduction to study procedure (administrative actions, committee introductions, composition/balance/bias discussions, portal usage, etc.)

•  Discuss approach to Statement of Task, including background, and confirm scope during a review with sponsor

•  Receive detailed briefings from ACWA staff and others

•  Refine working report outline and review report writing process

•  Appoint chapter leads and teams and make initial assignments

•  Develop plan for future meeting milestones

Briefings

ACWA Program Overview, James Richmond, Director, Risk Management, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

PCAPP Site Project Overview, Scott Susman, PCAPP Systems Engineer, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

BGCAPP Site Project Overview, Darren Dalton, BGCAPP Systems Engineer, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

Relevant Health and Safety Standards, Peter Spaeth, Safety Engineer, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

Relevant Environmental Standards, Vicki Strause, Environmental Scientist, and Jon Ware, Environmental Scientist, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

Sources and Amounts of Agent-Contaminated Wastes, Gary S. Groenewold, Idaho National Laboratory, former member of NRC ACWA Secondary Waste Committee; current member of NRC Committee on Chemical Demilitarization

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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Current Monitoring Approaches in the Chemical Demilitarization Program, Jeff Kiley, Chief, Quality Assurance, U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency

U.S. Army Technology Research in Low-Level Contaminant Monitoring Capabilities, H. Dupont Durst, Research Directorate, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

General Status Review on Low-Level Contaminant Monitoring Capabilities, R. Graham Cooks, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University

Agent Fate Program and Other Relevant Work, H. Dupont Durst, Research Directorate, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

SECOND MEETING
JUNE 28-30, 2011, PUEBLO, COLORADO

Objectives

•  Conduct NRC administrative actions, including composition and balance discussion for new member, and review NRC policies on intellectual property attributions

•  Tour PCAPP site with emphasis on monitoring systems and procedures

•  Obtain relevant information from site specialists and ACWA staff

•  Review and refine draft text inputs for report

•  Refine working report outline and reassess conformance with statement of task

•  Identify additional information gathering needed

•  Plan future activities, meetings, and text development deadlines

Briefings

Update on ACWA Program Developments, Carl Anderson, ACWA Safety & Surety Engineer

PCAPP Site Orientation, Video presentation

Monitoring Strategies, Walter Waybright, PCAPP Laboratory Manager (Battelle)

Tour of Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant

Open Discussion and Question and Answer Session

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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THIRD MEETING
AUGUST 15-16, 2011, KECK CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Objectives

•  Conduct committee discussions on constructing and coordinating the text of each chapter toward conceptually realistic situations relating to the potential applicability and utility of using new, complementary monitoring methods at BGCAPP and PCAPP

•  Review and discuss information received from sponsor

•  Identify additional information gathering to be pursued

•  Determine strategy for site visit to Blue Grass Army Depot

•  Perform page-by-page review of current draft text for each chapter

•  Develop and/or refine draft findings and recommendations along with necessary supporting text

•  Determine dates and location for next full committee meeting

•  Review NRC policies on intellectual property attributions

Participants in Teleconference with ACWA Personnel:

James Richmond, Director, Risk Management, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

Debra A. Michaels, Chemical Operations Officer, PCAPP Field Office

Anthony Reed, Deputy Site Project Manager for BGCAPP

John Coyne, SAIC, Risk Management/Chemistry/Science and Technology

Susan Ankrom, SAIC, ACWA Deputy Program Manager Engineering

Beth Haldane, SAIC, Chemist John Barton, Battelle, Chief Scientist

Tommy Adams, Battelle, Laboratory Manager

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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FOURTH MEETING BECKMAN CENTER, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA

Objectives

•  Conduct committee discussions on how well text of each chapter addresses developed scenarios relating to the potential applicability and utility of using ne complementary monitoring methods at BGCAPP and PCAPP

•  Review and discuss recent information received from sponsor

•  Perform page-by-page review of text for each chapter

•  Develop and/or refine findings and recommendations along with necessary supporting text

•  Produce preconcurrence draft

Briefings

ACWA Monitoring Update, Jeff Kiley, Chief, Quality Assurance, U.S. Army Element, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meetings." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA's) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons. CMA completed destruction of the chemical agents and associated weapons deployed overseas, which were transported to Johnston Atoll, southwest of Hawaii, and demilitarized there. The remaining 10 percent of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile is stored at two continental U.S. depots, in Lexington, Kentucky, and Pueblo, Colorado. Their destruction has been assigned to a separate U.S. Army organization, the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) Element.

ACWA is currently constructing the last two chemical weapons disposal facilities, the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (denoted PCAPP and BGCAPP), with weapons destruction activities scheduled to start in 2015 and 2020, respectively. ACWA is charged with destroying the mustard agent stockpile at Pueblo and the nerve and mustard agent stockpile at Blue Grass without using the multiple incinerators and furnaces used at the five CMA demilitarization plants that dealt with assembled chemical weapons - munitions containing both chemical agents and explosive/propulsive components. The two ACWA demilitarization facilities are congressionally mandated to employ noncombustion-based chemical neutralization processes to destroy chemical agents.

In order to safely operate its disposal plants, CMA developed methods and procedures to monitor chemical agent contamination of both secondary waste materials and plant structural components. ACWA currently plans to adopt these methods and procedures for use at these facilities. The Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants report also develops and describes a half-dozen scenarios involving prospective ACWA secondary waste characterization, process equipment maintenance and changeover activities, and closure agent decontamination challenges, where direct, real-time agent contamination measurements on surfaces or in porous bulk materials might allow more efficient and possibly safer operations if suitable analytical technology is available and affordable.

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