Army Organizations

Army Chemical Demilitarization and Remediation Activity is responsible for implementing the destruction of all U.S. chemical warfare-related material, including the chemical weapons stockpile and nonstockpile chemical material, and for insuring maximum protection to the environment, general public, and personnel involved in the destruction. The activity s office of Program Manager for Nonstockpile Chemical Material is responsible for  

1) Collecting and analyzing data on nonstockpile chemical material  

2) Identifying and assessing sites with possible buried chemical warfare material  

3) Coordinating the transportation of recovered chemical weapons to locations for interim storage  

4) Destroying recovered chemical warfare material on-site as needed to protect the general public and environment  

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History. The US Army organization that formerly, for over 100 years, had responsibility for the design, manufacture and procurement from private industry of weapons, ammunition and vehicles, for the training of personnel in their use, and for their storage, issue and maintenance. The Ordnance Department also served both the Navy and Air Force as directed by higher authority... 

As discussed in Chapter 4, many different Army organizations are involved in making decisions about sites where non-stockpile chemical materiel is stored or recovered. Often, the site is a current military base or depot, where the primary decision maker is the base or depot commander. The role of the NSCMP is to develop treatment technology options and offer treatment services to decision makers at these sites. 

Other Army organizations also support the RAP process at specific locations, such as the Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM), the Army Environmental Center, and the Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. In addition, SBCCOM is responsible for permitted storage of NSCWM (and stockpile materiel) at installations where this materiel is stored. ... 

These and other Army organizations may be involved in future land use planning, which is also an important consideration. However, future land use planning and related issues are beyond the scope of this report. 

During the war the ASF not only assumed responsibility for supervising such technical service activities as disposition of facilities, contract termination, and property disposal it also set up organizational and administrative standards for all elements under its jurisdiction, and General Somervell s headquarters did not confine its concern for Army organization to the war period, but made plans for the postwar period as well. As... 

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