Impact of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits on Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Activities (2005) / Chapter Skim
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. The posed plans for implementing newly recommended limits on EDS and RRS constitute the non-stockpile program's airborne concentrations of chemical agents.1 The limits, primary mobile systems for destroying recovered chemical called airborne exposure limits (AELs)
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. 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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c 2003/2004 1 × 101 3 × 103 7 × 101 NOTE: 1 × 104 = 0.0001; 1 × 105 = 0.00001; 3 × 103 = 0.003, etc. aThe CDC recommended airborne exposure limits for GA/GB and VX in 2003 and for HD in 2004.
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MINICAMS has also been used to monitor for HD at con centrations greater than the 1997 IDLH AEL for this agent.6 NON-STOCKPILE PROGRAM The use of MINICAMS to monitor for GB, HD, and VX at The non-stockpile program involves the carefully planned the CDC's 2003/2004 IDLH levels and at the 2003/2004 and executed dismantlement and disposal of the former STELs (numerically equal to the current TWAs) should be chemical agent production facility at NECD.
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expected to result in fewer false positives for phosphoruscontaining compounds and other compounds with retention Recommendation 4-2: The Army should immediately contimes similar to that of the G-analog of VX (for phosphorus- vene a workshop of non-stockpile and stockpile personnel containing compounds that do not undergo conversion to working on DAAMS methods from each site to allow them yield the G-analog of VX)
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The non- operations were getting under way, air monitoring in Buildstockpile program sometimes uses higher alarm levels than ing 143 of the NECD facility detected material suspected to be VX. Subsequent analysis of liquid samples removed from nitrogen piping showed the presence of an oxidized VX 8Unlike NRT monitoring systems, which can analyze samples in a matter of minutes, historical monitoring systems such as DAAMS can take as long as 12 hours of sampling to produce results.
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.10 alarm levels. The committee believes that the problems faced by the stock pile program could affect the non-stockpile program as well, The CMA guidelines for selection of PPE differ from especially with regard to environmental permitting issues those of general industry, and non-stockpile operation and public involvement programs.
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That is, if regulators or the public at any location raise Core Group, it maintains a constructive relationship with the significant objections regarding any program activity, it will activist public.11 become increasingly difficult for the Army to achieve its programmatic milestones. A proactive public involvement Recommendation 6-4: PMNSCM should develop, in conprogram would help, not only by reducing delays and other sultation with the non-stockpile Core Group, a model for obstacles to the accomplishment of the disposal mission but public involvement in the fielding of mobile systems and the also by providing the basis for resolving unexpected implementation of monitoring systems to protect the general problems if they arise.
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