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Impact Of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits On Non Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Activities

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Author by : National Research Council
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2005-05-04
Publisher by : National Academies Press

ISBN : 9780309095457

The U.S. Army's Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel program is responsible for dismantling former chemical agent production facilities and destroying recovered chemical materiel. In response to congressional requirements, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2003, recommended new airborne exposure limits (AELs) to protect workforce and public health during operations to destroy this materiel. To assist in meeting these recommended limits, the U.S. Army asked the NRC for a review of its implementation plans for destruction of production facilities at the Newport Chemical Depot and the operation of two types of mobile destruction systems. This report presents the results of that review. It provides recommendations on analytical methods, on airborne containment monitoring, on operational procedures, on the applicability of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and on involvement of workers and the public in implementation of the new AELs....

Impact Of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits On Non Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Activities

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Author by : Committee on Review and Assessment of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Demilitarization Program Workplace Monitoring
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2005-04-04
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ISBN : 0309382297

The U.S. Army's Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel program is responsible for dismantling former chemical agent production facilities and destroying recovered chemical materiel. In response to congressional requirements, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2003, recommended new airborne exposure limits (AELs) to protect workforce and public health during operations to destroy this materiel. To assist in meeting these recommended limits, the U.S. Army asked the NRC for a review of its implementation plans for destruction of production facilities at the Newport Chemical Depot and the operation of two types of mobile destruction systems. This report presents the results of that review. It provides recommendations on analytical methods, on airborne containment monitoring, on operational procedures, on the applicability of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and on involvement of workers and the public in implementation of the new AELs....

Impact Of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits On Non Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Activities

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Author by : National Research Council
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2005-04-04
Publisher by : National Academies Press

ISBN : 9780309181570

The U.S. Army's Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel program is responsible for dismantling former chemical agent production facilities and destroying recovered chemical materiel. In response to congressional requirements, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2003, recommended new airborne exposure limits (AELs) to protect workforce and public health during operations to destroy this materiel. To assist in meeting these recommended limits, the U.S. Army asked the NRC for a review of its implementation plans for destruction of production facilities at the Newport Chemical Depot and the operation of two types of mobile destruction systems. This report presents the results of that review. It provides recommendations on analytical methods, on airborne containment monitoring, on operational procedures, on the applicability of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and on involvement of workers and the public in implementation of the new AELs....

Transportable Treatment Systems For Non Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel

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Author by : Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program (U.S.)
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2001
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:970963271

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Cdc Revises Airborne Exposure Limits For Chemical Agents

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Author by :
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2007
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ISBN : OCLC:1050635186

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Army revised the limits at which nerve agents VX and GB, and blister agent HD are monitored in air at very low concentrations. These concentrations are known as airborne exposure limits (AELs). These changes were made to bring the Army closer to the way other federal agencies, such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, set AELs and monitor air in the workplace. During its evaluation of agent AELs, the CDC concluded that workers at chemical weapons storage and disposal facilities and the public have been fully protected under the existing AELs. The safety of its workers and surrounding communities continues to be the Army's highest priority as it stores and disposes of chemical weapons. The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) uses advanced monitoring systems at its chemical weapons storage and disposal facilities to ensure that air is safe for workers and the public. Although the new AELs will require some procedural changes in the workplace, they do not indicate any unsafe exposure to workers in the past, and will not affect worker risks in the future. Impacts of the revised AELs The revised AELs will change the way the Army and its contractors do things at their facilities. How the Army will monitor for agent is the most obvious change, but there will be other changes, such as the level of personal protection workers may use for various operations, or how long a worker may operate in a particular facility area. Other less visible changes may include new procedures for medical monitoring and laboratory analyses. As these changes are implemented, the Army and its contractors will inform and train the workforce....

Transportable Treatment Systems For Non Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel

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Author by : Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program (U.S.)
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2001
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ISBN : OCLC:58921549

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Monitoring At Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities

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Author by : National Research Council
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2005-10-13
Publisher by : National Academies Press

ISBN : 9780309181587

Under the direction of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) and mandated by Congress, the nation is destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. Over the past several years, the Army has requested several studies from the NRC to assist with the stockpile destruction. This study was requested to advise the CMA about the status of analytical instrumentation technology and systems suitable for monitoring airborne chemical warfare agents at chemical weapons disposal and storage facilities. The report presents an assessment of current monitoring systems used for airborne agent detection at CMA facilities and of the applicability and availability of innovative new technologies. It also provides a review of how new regulatory requirements would affect the CMA's current agent monitoring procedures, and whether new measurement technologies are available and could be effectively incorporated into the CMA's overall chemical agent monitoring strategies....

Review Of International Technologies For Destruction Of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel

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Author by : National Research Council
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2006-12-02
Publisher by : National Academies Press

ISBN : 9780309102032

The Chemical Weapons Convention requires, among other things, that the signatories to the conventionâ€"which includes the United Statesâ€"destroy by April 29, 2007, or as soon possible thereafter, any chemical warfare materiel that has been recovered from sites where it has been buried once discovered. For several years the United States and several other countries have been developing and using technologies to dispose of this non-stockpile materiel. To determine whether international efforts have resulted in technologies that would benefit the U.S. program, the U.S. Army asked the NRC to evaluate and compare such technologies to those now used by the United States. This book presents a discussion of factors used in the evaluations, summaries of evaluations of several promising international technologies for processing munitions and for agent-only processing, and summaries of other technologies that are less likely to be of benefit to the U.S. program at this time....

Remediation Of Buried Chemical Warfare Materiel

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Author by : National Research Council
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2012-08-21
Publisher by : National Academies Press

ISBN : 9780309257930

As the result of disposal practices from the early to mid-twentieth century, approximately 250 sites in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and 3 territories are known or suspected to have buried chemical warfare materiel (CWM). Much of this CWM is likely to occur in the form of small finds that necessitate the continuation of the Army's capability to transport treatment systems to disposal locations for destruction. Of greatest concern for the future are sites in residential areas and large sites on legacy military installations. The Army mission regarding the remediation of recovered chemical warfare materiel (RCWM) is turning into a program much larger than the existing munition and hazardous substance cleanup programs. The Army asked the Nation Research Council (NRC) to examine this evolving mission in part because this change is significant and becoming even more prominent as the stockpile destruction is nearing completion. One focus in this report is the current and future status of the Non-Stockpile Chemical Material Project (NSCMP), which now plays a central role in the remediation of recovered chemical warfare materiel and which reports to the Chemical Materials Agency. Remediation of Buried Chemical Warfare Materiel also reviews current supporting technologies for cleanup of CWM sites and surveys organizations involved with remediation of suspected CWM disposal sites to determine current practices and coordination. In this report, potential deficiencies in operational areas based on the review of current supporting technologies for cleanup of CWM sites and develop options for targeted research and development efforts to mitigate potential problem areas are identified....

Assessment Of Explosive Destruction Technologies For Specific Munitions At The Blue Grass And Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants

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Author by : National Research Council
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2009-05-22
Publisher by : National Academies Press

ISBN : 9780309126830

The Army's ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate explosive destruction technologies (EDTs) to augment the main technologies to be used to destroy the chemical weapons currently at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado. The Army is considering four EDTs for the destruction of chemical weapons: three from private sector vendors, and a fourth, Army-developed explosive destruction system (EDS). This book updates earlier evaluations of these technologies, as well as any other viable detonation technologies, based on several considerations including process maturity, process efficacy, process throughput, process safety, public and regulatory acceptability, and secondary waste issues, among others. It also provides detailed information on each of the requirements at BGAD and PCD and rates each of the existing suitable EDTs plus the Army's EDS with respect to how well it satisfies these requirements....

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