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Appendix A: Public Law 102-484--Oct. 23, 1992 (Extract)
Pages 133-137

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... to meet with each commission under this section to receive citizen and State concerns regarding the ongoing program of the Army for the disposal of the lethal chemical agents and munitions in the stockpile referred to in section 1412(a)
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From page 134...
... The report shall include the following: (~) An analysis of the report of the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
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... (3) A comparison of the baseline disassembly and incineration process with each alternative technology evaluated in the report of such committee that the National Academy of Sciences recommends for use in the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, taking into consideration each of the following factors: (A)
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... REQUIREMENT FOR ALTERNATIVE PROCESS. If the date by which chemical weapons destruction and demilitarization operations can be completed at a low-volume site using an alternative technology process evaluated by the Secretary of the Army falls within the deadline established by the amendment made by section 171 and the Secretary determines that the use of that alternative technology process for the destruction of chemical weapons at that site is significantly safer and equally or more cost-effective than the use of the baseline disassembly and incineration process, then the Secretary of the Army, as part of the requirement of section 1412(a)
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... ~2~) for a chemical weapons disposal facility at any low volume site at which the Secretary intends to implement an alternative technology process until the SecretaIy submits the revised concept plan.
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