Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (1999) / Chapter Skim
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2 Disposal Alternatives
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in these cases, personnel from the Army's Explosive Ordnance Detachment use explosives to destroy the materiel and consume the chemical agents.) The Army's baseline plan for the disposal of CAlS involves the RRS, a transportable disposal system that would be moved to CAIS recovery and storage sites.
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In some instances, for example when Tong-standing contamination will be remediated through natural attenuation or if the contaminants are immobilized in a controlled, secure, monitored, and properly permitted landfill, a "Do Nothing" approach may be a viable alternative to expensive remediation that would have limited long-term benefits. If the CAlS were known to be buried in controlled and monitored burial sites that would remain indefinitely under strictly enforced institutional controls, then a Do Nothing approach might incur less total risk (and especially less risk to soldiers and civilian workers)
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Baseline Rapid Response System The Army's baseline approach is the RRS for on-site treatment of CAIS items. The RRS is a mobile unit designed specifically to dispose of CAlS items at the locations where they are found.2 The RRS operations unit contains a series of linked glove boxes3 equipped to remove CAlS ampouTes and bottles from their packages, identify their contents, and then segregate and repackage CATS containing industrial chemicals for offsite commercial disposal.
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would have to be equipped with portable Ram an spectroscopy to identify and separate chemical warfare materiel from industrial chemicals in unearthed CATS vials and portable isotopic neutron spectroscopy for identifying the contents of PIGS (see Appendix C for details)
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However, many public and stakeholder groups are opposed to using stockpile facilities for other purposes, and current legal restrictions prohibit using them for the disposal of any other wastes, including CATS or other non-stockpile chemical materiel. Furthermore, Army officials have publicly assured local residents living near stockpile disposal facilities that no other material will be disposed of at these locations.
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