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However, under the Chemical 6 Arrny to dispose of the entire unitary chemical warfare agent and munitions stockpile by December 31, 2004. DESCRIPTION OF THE STOCKPILE Agents The principal unitary chemical agents in the U.S.
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Table 1-1 lists some of the physical properties of VX and HD. Containers and Munitions Unitary chemical agents are stored in spray tanks, bulk storage (ton)
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are considered in this report. The unitary agent stockpile at the Aberdeen site consists entirely of HD (1,625 tons in 1,818 ton containers)
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X X NOTE: APG, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; ANAD, Anniston Army Depot, Alabama; BGAD, Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky; NECA, Newport Chemical Activity, Indiana; PEA, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas; PUDA, Pueblo Depot Activity, Colorado; TEAD, Tooele Army Depot, Utah; and UMDA, Umatilla Depot Activity, Oregon SOURCE: Adapted from NRC, 1996 and U.S.
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EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES In 1987, at the request of the Undersecretary of the Army, the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (referred to as the Stockpile Committee) was established under the aegis of the NRC Board on Army Science and Technology to provide the Army with technical advice and counsel on specific aspects of the disposal program.
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SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY Since these earlier reports, the Army believes that research developments have sufficiently enhanced the database on the performance of some alternative technologies to warrant reexamination of specific alternatives for use at certain sites. In the summer of 1995, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition informally explored with the NRC Stockpile Committee the possibility of examining alternative chemical disposal technologies.
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The panel will meet, as appropriate, to: · establish criteria to assess and evaluate selected alternative technologies; conduct site visits as appropriate to assess firsthand the viability and maturity of technologies being reviewed; conduct site visits to possible locations where alternative technologies may be employed and to hold open meetings there to solicit CAC views on the alternative technologies under consideration; assess technical aspects, strengths and weaknesses, and advantages and disadvantages of each technology; consider the option of shipping treated effluents (agent free) to off-site appropriately permitted disposal facilities; and EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES make recommendations regarding which, if any, of these technologies merit full evaluation and presentalion to the Defense Acquisition Boards as candidates for pilot-plant demonstration by the Army.
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The panel insisted, and the Army agreed, that, consistent with the varying depth and scope of available technical information on the proposed alternative technologies and the need to provide timely support to the Defense Acquisition Board's decision-making process and the NRC panel review, the Army would request preliminary risk assessments of the technologies by an independent contractor (MitreTek Systems, Inc.~. The scope of work for this risk assessment required that the contractor provide a preliminary assessment of the potential process safety risks associated with implementing the baseline incineration system as compared with each of the five alternative disposal technologies at the Aberdeen and Newport sites.
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Before site visits were undertaken, the pane! tracted relevant evaluation factors from the Army Criteria Report and the NRC Criteria Report Evaluation and developed its own framework for evaluation.
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