Non-Stockpile Facilities

PBNSF Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility VX a nerve agent 

PMCD Program Manager for Chemical Demili- WHEAT water hydrolysis of explosives and agent 

PMNSCM Product Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel WIPT working integrated process team 

POTW publicly owned treatment works 3X level of decontamination (suitable for 

PS-CHCI3 chloropicrin in chloroform solution commercial release) 

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Sites with a large number (that is, hundreds or thousands) of nonstockpile items were originally expected to be served by semipermanent treatment facilities, although a plan was implemented that replaced the Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility with multiple EDS units for the processing of hundreds of recovered munitions (see NRC, 2004). 

NRC. 2004. Assessment of the Army Plan for the Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility. Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press. 

Is the process scalable so that it can address small, medium, and large munition finds Yes. Three sizes appear to provide appropriate capability for small, medium, and large quantities. All are transportable to the site. Yes. There are two DAVINCH sizes available and multiple units can be deployed. Large size (70 tons) of smaller DAVINCH (DV45) may make it impractical for small quantity finds, however. Yes. Three detonation chamber sizes are available and several units can be used together to meet throughput requirements. The EDS seems appropriate for small or medium caches. At Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility, several EDSs could have destroyed ca. 1,000 munitions in an acceptable time period. 

Evaluate mobile destruction systems and semi-permanenC facilities being used or considered by the Army s Non-stockpile product manager for the treatment of non-stockpile CWM and make recommendations on the systems and facilities that could be employed by the Army and their interrelationships. This analysis will specifically include consideration of issues and opportunities associated with the Explosive Destruction System (EDS), the Rapid Response System (RRS), the Munitions Assessment and Processing System (MAPS), the Pine Bluff Non-stockpile Facility (PBNSE), alternative treatments for neat chemicals, and selected aspects of the stockpile facilities. 

Recommendation PMNSCM should develop a detailed, realistic timetable showing how the planned non-stockpile facilities at Pine Bluff Arsenal can achieve the throughput necessary to destroy the stored non-stockpile items by April 2007 and should communicate this timetable to all stakeholders (Recommendation 2-1). 

Facilities Non-stockpile facilities Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility (PBNSF) (in final design) Designed to use chemical neutrahzation and associated technologies to address the recovered non-stockpile items stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas... 

Unlike stockpile facilities, discussed next, no dedicated non-stockpile facilities have yet been completed. The PMNSCM plans to construct such facilities at two sites where large quantities of recovered chemical warfare material (RCWM) are stored the Munitions Assessment and Processing System (MAPS) at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland, and the Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility (PBNSF) at Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA), Arkansas. 

Finding 2-lb. The task of destroying the very large qnantity of NSCWM at Pine Blnff Arsenal by 2007 is dannting, given that the planned non-stockpile facilities are not expected to be operational nntil 2006. As far as the committee can ascertain, the Army has not developed a timetable for destmction of this NSCWM that is both realistic and consistent with cnrrent treaty deadlines. The committee is concerned that withont clear planning and extraordinary efforts, the treaty deadlines will almost certainly not be met. 

The fourth type of facility—commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs)—differs from stockpile and non-stockpile facilities in that commercial TSDFs cannot be used to treat CWM. However, they can accept the secondary waste generated by mobile systems and some individual treatment technologies, assuming that the secondary waste no longer contains agent, except perhaps at de minimis levels. A permit modification for treatment of these wastes may be required, however. 

RRS, for example, requires three trailers or two C-141 aircraft to transport it. Both systems can be used as modular components of non-stockpile facilities or can be transported to the site of finds, as warranted. 

Finding 3-lb. Bulk chemicals stored in ton containers and other sample containers are located at stockpile sites. They can be destroyed in the stockpile facilities, non-stockpile facilities at APG and PBA, or the CAMDS facility at Tooele, Utah. 

While the committee believes that future non-stockpile facilities at large-quantity sites might utilize multiple mobile units such as the EDS and DBC operated in parallel (e.g., Finding and Recommendation 2-5), this concept is not yet included in facilities such as MAPS and PBNSF, which at this writing were under construction and in final design, respectively. 

Public involvement activities (other than time scheduled for public review of the National Environmental Policy Act and permitting documents) are linked only to the pre-operational and operational phases rather than to the construction and design phases of the non-stockpile facility proposed for Pine Bluff, a sign that involvement comes only after critical technical decisions have been made. 

This appendix reviews the two mobile non-stockpile facilities proposed for treatment of NSCWM—the Rapid Response System (RRS) and the Explosive Destruction System... 

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