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9 COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATOR VIEWS CONCERNING THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
9 COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATOR VIEWS CONCERNING THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Pages 155-166
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The Army also decided to pursue a neutralization R&D program to determine the feasibility of neutralization as a technology for destruction of the stockpiles at sites with bulk storage of chemical agent, namely, the Aberdeen and Newport sites. In the NRC Criteria ReportEvaluation, the Stockpile Committee again emphasized the importance of public involvement in the selection of alternative technologies.
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In reporting on views expressed during the public forums or in correspondence, the panel does not claim that these views represent a consensus or even a majority view within the communities affected by chemical demilitarization activities at the Newport and Aberdeen sites. The panel does assert, however, that these views are important for understanding the inten sity of feelings of an active and vocal segment of the affected communities and are therefore worthy of Army and panel consideration.
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The pane! received 20 letters from area residents commenting on the alternative technologies, the criteria for their evaluation, or the importance of public involvement in the final decision between using the baseline system or an 157 alternative technology for the destruction of the Newport stockpile.
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The alternative technology should be a closed-loop or batch system that can be shut down quickly; these processes are perceived as intrinsically safer than others. The alternative technology should operate at low temperature and low pressure; these conditions are perceived as intrinsically safer than others.
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If testing shows that some material of concern has gotten through, that batch can be recycled through earlier stages for retreating.2 From a technical standpoint, therefore, the preference for a closed-loop process is closely akin to the preference, stated by other forum participants, for an alternative technology that uses batch processing and can be quickly and safely shut down if testing shows a batch has not been fully treated. In formulating criteria for evaluating alternative technologies (see Chapter 10)
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To provide information relevant to the potential public acceptance of a technology, the AltTech Panel has indicated in Chapter 10 whether or not an alternative technology would, from a purely technical standpoint, be readily adaptable to treating other wastes. Schedule Driven by Safely, Not Extema/ Commitments Several people expressed the desirability of slowing down the evaluation process for alternative technologies.
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Specific Concerns of the Newport Community The community near the Newport site raised one issue that was not raised by the Aberdeen community. The Newport community wanted the alternative technology selected for Newport to be capable of destroying chemical agent in a one-step or complete process and not produce large amounts of toxic or hazardous waste.
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In addition, both Carraway and the governor s representative clearly stated that they consider the best alternative technology option to be in-situ neutralization and are adamantly opposed to incineration at Newport. Meeting with and Comments from the Maryland CAC Several Maryland CAC representatives met with pane!
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With respect to the panel's role in recommending an alternative technology for the Aberdeen site, the panel has taken note of the preference, stated by CAC members and others in the community, for a technology that has the characteristics associated with a closed-Ioop or batch process and that processes chemical agent at low temperature and low pressure. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORS A critical element in the implementation schedule for disposing of a chemical agent stockpile is the environmental permitting process.
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pilot demonstration of an alternative technology. Permitting Requirements under RCRA Two of the TPCs have approached regulators in both states to explore the possibility of obtaining recycling designations for their technologies.4 A recycling designation would obviate a RCRA hazardous-waste permit, which would otherwise be necessary.
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The environmental regulators said that they have not yet determined whether the products from synthesis gas combustion require regulation under existing hazardouswaste rules. Pilo~Demonstration of en Alternative Technology A potentially significant issue exists for piloting an alternative technology for chemical agent destruction at the Newport site.
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However, the TPC described itself as successful in both winning public acceptance and working with Canadian environmental regulators. The TPC described a public outreach program that is less detailed and has fewer outreach activities than the program described by the first TPC, but the approach has been used with successful sitings (ECO LOGIC, 1996b)
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