Risk Assessment and Management at Deseret Chemical Depot and the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (1997) / Chapter Skim
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The Stockpile Committee reviewed the FPEIS and, in a January 1993 letter report, noted that the programmatic risk assessment "was not directed at man aging risk at any specific site." In that same report, the committee recommended that the CSDP should include site-specific risk assessments for each of the eight continental U.S. disposal sites as a basis for overall risk management of the disposal program.
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, oversaw the QRA and provided the Army with a separate, detailed technical review. Thus, the committee's role included both general oversight of the risk assessment/risk management process and oversight of the Expert Panel review process.
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The report encompasses the program-wide and site-specific definition of the documented CSDP risk management process and evaluates the results of risk assessments of the Tooele storage and disposal facilities and the overall risk management process being implemented for the TOCDF. RESULTS OF THE RISK ASSESSMENTS Quantitative Risk Assessment Stockpile Storage Earthquakes as initiating events pose the greatest risk to the public from continued storage of the DCD stockpile.
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Health Risk Assessment The HRA evaluated the effects of incinerator emis sions under various operating scenarios for an adult resident, a child resident, a subsistence fisherman, and three farmers at various locations with various dura tions of exposure during the year. Conservative model- FIGURE ES-5 Contnbutors to the average risk of fatality to ing assumptions maximizing anticipated concentrations disposal-related workers at DCD and TOCDF.
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The Army's draft Guide on risk management provides an overview of the overall risk management program, incorporating references to subsidiary risk management documents and activities. The Guide defines interrelationships among Army offices, contractor offices, and public entities that are or should be involved in risk management activities.
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personnel, and the public understand the risk analyses. Although the Guide indicates that there are functional relationships among PMCD organizations with regard to risk management, it does not detail how management roles and communications across all the Army groups, contractors, subcontractors, and other agencies involved in the program will be integrated.
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The Army should expand implementation of the risk management program to ensure that workers understand the results of the risk assessments and risk management decisions. The Army should also ensure that CSEPP and other emergency preparedness officials understand the QRA and how their activities might affect risk.
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