Disposal of Neutralent Wastes Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program (2001) / Chapter Skim
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program to destroy stockpile chemical materiel was well under way at the time the CWC was first signed (January 1993~. The Army selected incineration as the baseline method for destroying chemical agent in the stockpile materiel; two incinerators, one on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and one at the Deseret Chemical Depot near Tooele, Utah, are currently in operation.
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Following Demo II, the Army will determine whether alternative technologies will be used at the Pueblo, Colorado, and Lexington Blue Grass, Kentucky, stockpile sites. NON-STOCKPILE CHEMICAL MATERIEL DISPOSAL PROGRAM Prior to 1991, efforts to dispose of CWM were limited to stockpile materiel.
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Neutralent Waste Streams In both the RRS and MMD, munitions or containers are opened, and liquid reagents are mixed with the chemical agents. According to Army test data, the agent concentration in the reaction vessel is thereby reduced to less than 50 parts per million (ppm)
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\/ No | Access and neutralize | I CWM in MOD I ~ Area covered by this report 1 \ Yes ~ Access and neutralize / CWM i n EDS Ed FIGURE 1-1 Flow chart for the disposal of nonstockpile CWM in transportable systems. Waste streams in the dotted box are the focus of this report.
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In some cases, state environmental regulations are even more stringent than federal regulations, making a single national approach practically impossible. Additional regulatory requirements may apply if some of the chemicals in the neutralents are defined as "lethal chemical agents" under the CWC and U.S.
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Because no information was available on actual tests of the destruction of real or simulated nonstockpile neutralent, or even any paper studies, the committee had to rely on the expert judgment of committee members to predict the most likely outcomes for each technology and identify the most 7A RCRA Subtitle C landfill accepts hazardous wastes; a RCRA Subtitle D landfill accepts municipal solid wastes. The committee believes that residual solids from the processes discussed in this report can be stabilized and pass regulatory requirements for disposal.
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