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, which evaluated eight alternative technologies3 for destruction of the liquid waste streams from the RRS and the MMD. This report evaluates the same technologies for the 2The EDS Phase 1 (EDS-1)
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. In addition to these fills, it is possible that some nonstockpile items containing VX7 as well as arsenicderived chemical agents such as lewisite, an organoarsenic TABLE ES-1 EDS-1 Liquid Waste Streams Considered in This Study Agent Fill Items Destroyed to Date Key Constituents of Liquid Waste Streams Phosgene (CG)
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will be produced, and these compounds will require conversion to relatively insoluble arsenate salts as part of the posttreatment of the EDS neutralent. STATEMENT OF TASK On March 16, 2001, the Army Product Manager for the NSCMP requested that the NRC undertake a supplemental assessment of alternative technologies for destruction of EDS liquid waste streams.
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remains valid for EDS liquid waste streams. However, based on new and preliminary results from NSCMP's Technology Test Program, as well as test results on some of the technologies obtained in the Army's Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA)
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Recommendation: The Army's RAP strategy should ensure that sufficient information is obtained about the chemical constituents of greatest concern in the RAP process for the EDS liquid wastes: chlorinated organics, degradation products of energetic compounds, metals, suspended solids, and MEA. Finding: RAP options associated with treatment of EDS neutralents, rinsates, and cleaning solutions depend on whether the waste is regulated as hazardous within the state where it is generated and, if it is, whether it is a "listed" hazardous waste, a "characteristic" hazardous waste, or bosh.
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permit, if that permit is written sufficiently broadly to allow acceptance of EDS liquid wastes. Other options include obtaining a hazardous waste permit for treatment, modifying an existing hazardous waste treatment permit, using emergency exemptions available under most state hazardous waste regulations, obtaining an emergency permit under the state hazardous waste regulations, using a RCRA compliance order (RCRA §§ 3008(a)
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The committee's discussion with citizen groups indicated a need for and the value of public involvement in the Army's decisions on the selection and deployment of technologies for disposing of neutralents and, indeed, all nonstockpile chemical materiel. 7 Recommendation: The Army should continue to expand its program for public involvement in the disposal of nonstockpile chemical materiel.
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