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2 Current Policy, Funding, Organization, and Management Practices
2 Current Policy, Funding, Organization, and Management Practices
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. The United States had also begun to eliminate RCWM program, Chapter 7 will examine the results, future classes of nondeclared materiel related to chemical agents needs, and shortcomings of the current programmatic design.
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, chart is provided later in this chapter to highlight the organi chemical weapons, and chemical warfare materiel -- zations that are currently most involved in the execution (i.e., that were never stored in the stockpile and are found implementation) of the program for RCWM.
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.2 It and the Superfund Reau approved the CWC, which would prohibit the production and thorization Act of 19863 required the Secretary of Defense to use of chemical weapons and establish conditions for the implement the DERP. The Secretary of Defense designated destruction of all stockpiled chemical agents and weapons, DUSD(I&E)
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Program Implementation piled chemical weapons, once the stockpiled weapons have Plan (Recovery and Destruction of Buried Chemical Warfare been completely destroyed and the stockpile destruction sites
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, the Assembled Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) , Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA)
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The role played cated to each of the Services for their requirements. For by government contractors in the RCWM program is very example, the Army allocation can normally be identified as significant, particularly in the planning, design, and construcOMA, the Navy allocation as OMN, and so on.
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program for destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and of non-stockpile chemical materiel and makes recommendaLogistics)
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. The energy, and the environment, to support global missions in Services involved in cleanups at munitions response sites are a cost-effective, safe and sustainable manner.15 The policy required to submit to DDESB for its review and approval and oversight of the RCWM program has been assigned to Explosive Safety Site Submissions and, where CWM are the office of DASA(ESOH)
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SOURCE: Bryan Frey, Headquarters, Department of the Army, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, Installation Services Directorate, Environmental Division, presentation to the committee on January 18, 2012. Installation Management Command this office.
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With respect to the RCWM program for both IMCOM and AMC installa FORSCOM prepares conventional forces to provide a sustions, the installation commander (i.e., the highest ranking tained flow of trained and ready land power to Combatant military mission leader) and the garrison commander would Commanders in defense of the Nation at home and abroad."20 be charged with the management of planned or unplanned RCWM remediation at active installations and BRAC sites.
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.eps FIGURE 2-9 Map of U.S. Army Installation Management BITMAP support of national efforts to combat weapons of mass tions also include decontaminating personnel and property in exposed to CBRN materials during response.
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PAO, Public Affairs Officer; CSM, Command Sergeant Major; XO, Executive Officer; GIS, Geographic Information Systems. SOURCE: Jim Daniel, Chief, Cleanup and Munitions Response Division, Army Environmental Com mand, and Tim Rodeffer, Cleanup and Munitions Response Division, "Operations of Recovered Chemical Warfare Material from Burial FIGURE 2-10 U.S.
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Army Chemical Materials Agency, Fact Sheet, Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project Overview. Available at http://www.cma.army.
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U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering It is also the single repository for the Army's research and Command development stock of toxic chemical agents.
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In general, USACE performs the USACE PM Non CARA ECBC Contractor Stockpile following functions for chemical demilitarization customers: • C entralized program management and financial FIGURE 2-12 Typical chemical warfare materiel project. PM, FIGURE 2-12 Typical chemical warfare materiel project.eps management, Project Manager; HNC CWM, Huntsville Engineering and Support • Center, Chemical Weapons Materiel.
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on its installations, including any buried chemical weapons
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Once RCWM is Navy Facilities Engineering Command, which is headquarsuspected on Navy property, the Navy acts through the tered in Washington, D.C. Department of the Army, which is the EA for the chemical demilitarization program, for the remediation of any Naval Facilities Engineering Command RCWM munitions.
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The mission of AFCEE is to "provide through a structure similar to those of the other Services. The integrated engineering and environmental products, services, Air Force is held responsible for the environmental quality and advocacy that optimize Air Force and Joint capabilities through sustainable installations."35 AFCEE's organization of its installations, including any planned and/or discovered chemical weapons munitions, but like the Navy, the number chart is provided in Figure 2-15.
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Army of health impacts if agent is released from buried chemical organizations. Navy and Air Force sites would have similar weapons munitions, these policies and regulations are very processes at the installation level and shared processes in the risk averse.
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The This chapter concluded with a brief overview of the man- processes must also be designed to apply to several possible agement practices that apply to the RCWM program. These scenarios depending on where, when, and how buried chemimanagement practices are very complex by the nature of the cal weapons munitions are discovered.
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