Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility

ABCDF ACWA ADP Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment acquisition design package... 

IX wastes from the Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility to support the decision to ship wastes off-site (Hessian and Myriski, 2005). 

The ability to ship agent-contaminated carbon to off-site disposal facilities has also been shown to significantly reduce the time and effort required to accomplish site closure. The recent closure of the Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ABCDF)... 

The anticipated closure wastes are summarized in Table 4-6. These are estimates based on the wastes generated during closure of the Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, which used the same neutralization process to destroy HD mustard agent stored in bulk. Estimates were made of the additional waste from the closure of the bioreactors, which were not a part of the process at Aberdeen, where the hydrolysate was sent to a commercial TSDF. 

U.S. Army. 1998. Fact Sheet Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Byproducts and Waste Streams. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization. 

Zimmerman, G.P., J.T. Ensminger, and J.W. Saulsbury. 2003. Transportation Analysis for the Off-site Shipment of Liquid Process Effluent from the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility at the Newport Chemical Depot, Indiana, December. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency. 

Finding 6-8. The experience to date with the offsite shipment and treatment of mustard and nerve agent hydrolysates from the Aberdeen and Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities indicates that offsite transportation and disposal of these materials is a safe and technically viable course of action. 

Spent activated carbon that has been contaminated with agent has been successfully shipped offsite to a permitted TSDF for disposal from several of the currently operational chemical agent disposal facilities. These shipments were made from tire Anniston, Alabama, and Aberdeen, Maryland, chemical agent disposal facilities in double containers using headspace analysis to determine the suitability for shipment. The spent activated carbon generated at both BGCAPP and PCAPP will have the same contaminants as the carbon already shipped offsite from other chemical agent disposal facilities. 

BausumHT (1998). Toxicological andrelated data for VX, suggested breakdown products and additives suggested RfD and RfC values. Prepared by the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD for the Newport (IN) Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. 

Hovanek, J.W., L.L. Szafraniec, J.M. Albizo, W.T. Beaudry, V.D. Henderson, Y.-C. Yang, B.K. Maciver, and L. Procell. 1993. Evaluation of Standard and Alternative Methods for the Decontamination of VX and HD in Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities. ERDEC-TR-054. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Edgewood Research, Development and Engineering Center. 

In addition to the stockpile facilities, two experimental facilities have long been used to destroy a variety of chemical agents by chemical neutralization the Chemical Transfer Facility (CTF) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS), at the Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah. Although these are R D facilities and therefore may not be used on a... 

The chemical sample containers can be disposed in the Aberdeen Chemical Transfer Facility (CTF), an R D facility at APG that has processed munitions, sample bottles, and ton containers containing a variety of chemical fills. The CTF does not have a capability for processing explosively configured munitions but does contain a chemical agent transfer system that can drain ton containers. There is no treaty-imposed time limit on operation of the CTF, and if its schednle permits, it can dispose of the container items listed above. The Product Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel (PMNSCM) has proposed using the CTF to destroy appropriate NSCWM items found at APG. 

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