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Army's first-generation Spent activated carbon; • incineration facility, the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Brine solutions or brine salts; • Disposal System (JACADS) , was that the costs and Dunnage, consisting primarily of wooden pallets; • time required for closure were significantly increased Metal from munitions or ton containers; • because the thousands of tons of secondary waste that Plastics, particularly used demilitarization protechad accumulated had to be disposed of.
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The different waste streams based on a single trial burn. In chemical agent disposal facilities are all regulated special situations, particularly with toxic materials such under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act as polychlorinated biphenyls, both a surrogate burn and (RCRA)
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An examination of the situation conMPF as scheduled operations allow or is stored until the cerning trial burn requirements for incinerators at end of agent disposal operations, due to limited on-site chemical agent disposal facilities has led to several secondary waste processing capacity. observations: At the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (NECDF)
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ment for the concurrent treatment of secondary waste Finding 3-8. The waste management practices for during agent disposal operations or changeovers at chemical agent destruction facilities is severely limited demilitarization protective ensemble suits and other in comparison with the capacity available at off-site plastics are limited by the on-site capacity for treatcommercial treatment facilities that could process the ment and, at some sites, by the regulatory restrictions waste.
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Closure planning and the time to achieve lons of Vx hydrolysate generated by the neutralization destruction of bulk nerve agent Vx at the Newport closure for chemical agent disposal facilities are Chemical Agent Disposal Facility was being stored both very dependent on the extent of waste treatin more than 140 intermodal storage containers. It is ment and disposal that occurs during agent disposal anticipated that 1.5 million gallons of Vx hydrolysate operations -- that is, on the degree of concurrent waste will eventually be generated.
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