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1 Introduction
Pages 9-15

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... However, the committee's focus was limited by the statement of task to certain non-stockpile activities: the demolition of the Army's former VX production 1Recovered chemical weapons are weapons that were once buried on facility at NECD and two mobile systems for the destruction current and former military sites but were then recovered as the land was remediated. CAIS items, which contain chemical warfare agents, were produced for training purposes before, during, and after World War II.
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From page 10...
... . SOURCE: Adapted from Current and Revised Airborne Exposure Limits for Chemical Warfare Agents, a chart provided by the Chemical Materials Agency at the June 2, 2004, AEL videoconference.
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From page 11...
... It comprises buried CWM, recovered CWM, binary chemical weapons, former production facilities, and The CWC requires that all former CWM production miscellaneous CWM. Much of this non-stockpile materiel facilities constructed or used after January 1, 1946, be was buried on current and former military sites but is now destroyed.
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From page 12...
... cal Materiel Product, Presentation to the PMECW Technology Workshop, preapplication meeting for the Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System at January 28, 2004; Dave Hoffman, Rick DiMauro, Tom Rosso, and Brett Pine Bluff Arsenal, April 22, 2004. Sims, Presentation to the committee, June 16, 2004.
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From page 13...
... For H and HD, the ommended precautionary measures are determined by the CDC recommended "retaining the proposed GPL for CDC, an agency of the Department of Health and Human perimeter monitoring stations at demilitarization facilities Services, and include development of AELs for the general and evaluation of the allowable stack concentrations" (Fedpublic, demilitarization workers, and emergency responders. eral Register, 2004, p.
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From page 14...
... reliably indicat operational procedures: ing that workers involved in these operations are not exposed -- For destruction of the former production facility at to dangerous levels of airborne nerve or mustard agent, Newport, Indiana, and through either short-term or long-term exposure, (2) reliably -- For the use of the mobile explosive destruction indicating that the general public in the vicinity of these system and the rapid response system.
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From page 15...
... nologies to meet future monitoring requirements, · Interim Recommendations for Airborne Exposure -- Assessing impacts of newly promulgated AELs on Limits for Chemical Warfare Agents H and HD (Sulfur worker and public safety aspects, Mustard) , Federal Register, Vol.
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