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Review of the U.S. Army's Health Risk Assessments for Oral Exposure to Six Chemical-Warfare Agents (1999) / Chapter Skim
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1: Introduction
Pages 9-16

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From page 9...
... . Chemical stockpile sites are located at nine sites: UmatilIa Depot, Oregon; Tooele Army Depot, Utah; Pueblo Depot, Colorado; Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Indiana; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Lex~ngton-Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; Anniston Army Depot, Alabama; Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas; and Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
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From page 10...
... Ord Santa Rosa Army Airfield Edwards AFB Rocky Mountain Arsenal Pueblo Army Depot Activity American University Brooksville Army Air Base Drew Field MacDill AFB Withlacoochee Dry Tortuga Keys Zephyr Hills Gunner Range Ft. Gillem Ft.
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From page 11...
... Hancock New Mexico Vl Wingate Ordnance Depot New York 11 North Carolina IV Ohio V Oregon X Pennsylvania 111 Mitchel Field Camp LeJeune Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant Umatilla Depot Activity Defense District Region East (formerly New Cumberland Army) CAISC South Charleston Army Depot Mustard Carolina IV NavalWeapons Center Mustard Unspecified "toxic agent shells" Mustard and residues Phosgene Unspecified "gas storage cylinders" Mustard CAlsc CAISC, ON, unspecified others Mustard Mustard Mustard, VX, other "mixed contamination"
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From page 12...
... and is used as a riot-control agent. c Chemical Agent Identification Set, a training aid containing vials of various chemical warfare agents normally in dilute chloroform solution.
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From page 13...
... The NRC's Board on Army Science and Technology is involved in studies of the destruction of stockpile and nonstockpile chemical munitions. The Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program and the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Non-Stockpile Materiel Disposal Program are reviewing the technical aspects of the Army's disposal methods on an ongoing basis (see NRC 1999a,b)
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From page 15...
... Because immediate establishment of the RfDs and SFs for those agents was believed to be necessary to ensure that consistent, health-based criteria would be applied in ongoing initiatives requiring decisions on the safety of contaminated sites, the Army's Surgeon General accepted the proposed RfDs and SFs as interim values until an independent review of them was conducted by the National Research Council (NRC)
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From page 16...
... Program Manager for Nonstockpile Chemical Materiel, Nonstockpile Chemical Materiel Program, U.S. Depa~ent of the Army, Chemical Materiel Destruction Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood, Md.
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Key Terms

  • army depot
  • chemical materiel
  • nscm sites
  • ammunition plant
  • oral exposure

  • proving ground
  • army ammunition
  • nonstockpile chemical
  • reference doses
  • depot activity

  • air base
  • nerve agents
  • chemical weapons
  • chemical munitions
  • army chemical

  • uncertainty factors
  • ordnance depot
  • materiel destruction
  • installation restoration
  • newport army

  • aberdeen proving
  • drinking water
  • destruction agency
  • umatilla depot
  • disposal program

  • army air
  • tooele army
  • mustard agents
  • contaminated soil
  • grass army


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