Systems and Technologies for the Treatment of Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel (2002) / Chapter Skim
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1: Background and Overview
1: Background and Overview
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Army's Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization (PMCD) has overall responsibility for dispos4The category includes buried chemical warfare materiel, recovered chemical warfare materiel, binary chemical weapons, former production facilities, and miscellaneous chemical warfare materiel.
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process and General Atomics Total Solution (GATS) , were further evaluated in an engineering design study at Pueblo Chemical loathe stockpile inventories at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and at Newport Chemical Depot, Indiana, consist of bulk agents that will be destroyed by chemical hydrolysis.
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These two technologies, along with OATS, are candidates for destroying the chemical munitions at Bluegrass Army Depot. THE NON-STOCKPILE CHEMICAL MATERIEL DISPOSAL PROGRAM Prior to 1991, the U.S.
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Nonexplosive 75-mm projectile 3 3 Subtotal 1,248 2 4 1,254 Chemical sample containera 2 Ton container 2 4-inch cylinder 1 2 Lab sample container 2 1 Vial (L) Subtotal 2 2 2 6 Chemical agent ID set (CAIS)
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nitions currently stored at the four military sites in the United States that have the largest inventories of non-stockpile materiel.~4 According to the CWC, these recovered items must be destroyed by April 29, 2007. About 85 percent of all recovered CWM in the United States is stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, in Arkansas (Table 1-1~; smaller quantities are stored at Dugway Proving Ground, in Utah (Table 1-2)
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The largest burial site is believed to be the old "O" field in Edgewood, Maryland; large sites also exist at Tooele Army Depot, Utah; Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado; and Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (U.S. Army, 1996~.~5 A major uncertainty for the non-stockpile program is the extent to which suspected burial sites will be excavated and what items will be found and recovered.
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Misce//aneous CWM Miscellaneous CWM includes the following: · items designed specifically for conducting chemical warfare, such as unfilled munitions, empty rocket warheads, fuzes and bursters designed for chemical munitions, and simulant-filled munitions · chemical samples transferred from leaking or suspect munitions to safer storage containers l8RCWM is defined by Army Regulation (AR)
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at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) , at the Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah.
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To date, however, there has been little integrated review of the technical operational plans for these systems how they fit together as an integrated toolbox and how their capabilities match the task to be accomplished. Equally important, there has been little review of the Army's plans for obtaining regulatory approvals to use these systems in the many states in which it must operate, and for providing opportunities for public involvement in the decision-making process so that the NSCWM can be destroyed in a timely way.
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