Formerly used defense sites

The Army Corps of Engineers provides technical support for site investigations, recoveries, and site restorations to Army and DOD organizations and is responsible for cleaning up formerly used defense sites. Restoration activities concerning the handling and disposal of nonstockpile chemical warfare material are coordinated with and authorized by the Army Chemical Demilitarization and Remediation Activity. 

One program is the ongoing effort by the Department of Defense (DOD) to demilitarize unneeded portions of its massive stockpile of ammunition and explosives. The trend is away from open buming/open detonation (OB/OD) and toward new demilitarization technologies allowing resource recovery and recycling. The second program is the remediation of ordnance and explosives waste (OEW) from both active and formerly used defense sites (FUDS). 

Contaminated sites can be divided into the following types formerly used defense sites, base closure sites, and active sites. Hie formerly used defense sites are likely to be the most predictable and dependable market segment. The Army Corps of Engineers has an inventory of at least 500 formerly used defense sites requiring ordnance cleanup. 

Kaho olawe Island, Hawaii Navy formerly used Defense site. Applied technology demonstration for contaminated media, surface and subsurface, and underwater unexploded ordnance detection, identification, and remediation in an uncontrolled test environment. Extremely environmentally challenging. This would also be a DOIT Committee process demonstration site. 

Lubbert RF, Transformation of the Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) Program Management and Execution, Joint Services Environmental Management Conference, May 24, 2007. 

CAMDS Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal FUDS formerly used defense site... 

U.S. Army. 2002b. Formerly Used Defense Sites, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Available at . 

The Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) also provides funding for Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS), which allows the state and local regulators to hire additional persoimel to oversee cleanup. 

Midland [Michigan] proceeded, and by August 20th an entire plant for the production of mustard had been developed and operated successfully on a flve-ton-unit [per day] plant scale. On that same page, seven soldiers were reported burned with mustard gas in May at this plant. The plant was suddenly abandoned in August due to a more efficient way of making mustard gas. In the author s experience, when a site is rapidly abandoned, CWM is buried. Because this plant was under the control of a Colonel Dorsey, it is a Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) and should be on the list. 

CASE STUDY THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY EXPERIMENT STATION (AUES) A FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITE... 

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