Closure and Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (2002) / Chapter Skim
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4 Executing the Closure Plan
4 Executing the Closure Plan
Pages 24-31
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. During agent processing and during closure of all CSDP disposal facilities, secondary wastes will be generated.
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In addition, as closure progresses and the dismantlement of the facility advances, workers will increasingly be required to handle heavy materials and equipment, including machinery, metal ducts, piping, and bulk material such as concrete removed from the facility. Closure activities will necessarily span several typhoon seasons.
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The availability of utility services to areas of the plant that are continuing waste disposal operations will have to be ensured. This includes the operation of secondary systems such as the HVAC cascade ventilation system through which incoming plant air proceeds from areas of low toxic concentration to areas of higher toxic concentration before being passed through carbon filters and then released to the atmosphere.
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Therefore, it will be necessary to verify that decontamination procedures for equipment, waste streams, and building materials have destroyed any significant agent residue. The sampling and analysis plan in Annex 2E of the JACADS Closure Campaign Decommissioning Plan stated that monitoring of airborne agent other than particulates will be performed by ACAMS monitors backed up by DAAMS monitors (U.S.
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Without near-real-time ACAMS alarms for all three, one or more could conceivably escape from the common stack during abnormal or upset conditions, as occurred in an incident at TOCDF in May 2000. The sampling and analysis plan from the Facility Closure Plan indicates that samples from liquid-phase waste streams and solid materials will be analyzed for agent contamination by chloroform extraction followed by gas chromatographic analysis (U.S.
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Public involvement is an inherent activity when National Environmental Policy Act3 and EPA regulations regarding RCRA permit processing apply. Johnston Atoll has had a long history of military activity dating back to the 1930s, including its use before and during World War II as a Pacific base, during the 1950s and 1960s as a launch facility for testing nuclear weapons, during the 1960s as a staging area for the shipment of Agent Orange to Vietnam, and from the 1980s to the present as a storage and disposal site for chemical agents and ammunition.
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The Stockpile Committee has maintained a high interest in the public involvement activities associated with the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, such that it has published two relatively extensive letter reports on the subject: Public Involvement and the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (NRC, 1996) and A Review of the Army's Public Affairs Efforts in Support of the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (NRC, 2000b)
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regulations and the Chemical Weapons Convention and minimizing cost, while at the same time earning public support safely transporting materials from JACADS to the continental United States providing safe and permanent storage or disposal of waste materials Planning for Transition to Closure Public outreach established during operations should continue seamlessly as emphasis shifts from operations to closure. Outreach activities for closure provide an opportunity to showcase operational accomplishments.
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