Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
Introduction
Pages 21-33
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Lethal chemical agents are extremely hazardous materials. That is why they are used in weapons.
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~ part because of these public concerns, Congress requested the National Research Council Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee) to provide technical advice on the selection of disposal technologies.
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The Stockpile Committee has worked with the Alternative Committee ~ s extensive report and has drawn on its own technical expertise and knowledge of the baseline system and disposal program requirements. The Stockpile Committee defined selection Sterna based on programmatic needs.
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It is directed only to ''1ow-volume" storage sites (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Indiana; Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky) , but development of such an _ ~ ~ ~ i.
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The Stockpile and Alternatives Committees have taken a more liberal view of these constraints. REIATED OPTIONS AND ISSUES The Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program is influenced or constrained by many nontechnical issues and concerns.
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PUBLIC FORUM Media coverage, Army reporting on interactions with the public, and letters and calls to the Stockpile and Alternatives Committees make it obvious that the public has many concerns about the stockpile and the plans for its disposal. As part of its deliberations, the Stockpile Committee wanted an
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Five specific types of considerations that the public addressed In the forum are important to discuss here. Human Impacts First, the major issue that emerged concerned the safety of the unitary chemical stockpile and of the technologies being considered for its disposal.
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Monitoring ease Trea1~/1Agislative Matters Degree of destruction (irreversibility) ~ Schedule compliance Facility Deactivation Ease Cost Research and development Construction Operations The Herman impacts Issue was egresses in several ways by members of the public, including concern about whether all of the potentially relevant alternative technologies had been or would be adequately examined.
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External Driving Factors A second set of public concerns was related to anxieties that factors external to scientific and technological considerations might drive decisions about disposal technology and the timing of implementation. A persistent concern was that mandated treaty compliance might overshadow local or even national issues.
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Corrlments concerned the potential impact on specific ecological niches due to either short-term or long-term chemical exposures from both air emissions and wastewater effluents. People also expressed concern about the adequacy of federal environmental standards, as weD as their enforcement, and their relationship to more rigorous state regulations.
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These all manifest themselves In the concern that insufficient consideration win be given to the local differences that exist In both the chemical stockpiles and the proximity of communities to disposal facilities. The public is concerned that potentially safer solutions will not be given adequate attention and that communities win lack voice ~ the decision about how the stockpile In their own area is to be managed.
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continuing deterioration of the materials adds to both the storage risk and the risks associated with stockpile disposal. Thus, although the committee does not feel bound by political deadlines that may be arbitrary and subject to change, there is every technical reason to expedite the disposal program to the extent that safe disposal practices permit.
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1998 May2000-Jan. 2002 Blue Grass Army Depot Jan.
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