Non-Stockpile Program

Controlled detonation chamber (CDC) update. Briefing by DeMil International to the Non-Stockpile Program Core Users Group, November 2004. 

Nonstockpile Experience at Pine Bluff and Schofield Barracks Allan Caplan, Project Engineer, Non-Stockpile Program, Chemical Materials Agency... 

Review and evaluate the issues and obstacles associated with the environmental regulatory approval process for successful employment of Non-stockpile Chemical Materiel disposal systems (mobile and semi-permanent) that the Army may encounter during its management of the Non-stockpile Program and offer recommendations that may make the regulatory approval process more efficient while reducing schedule risk. 

The non-stockpile program also has available to it treatment facilities that were developed for the stockpile program, as well as commercial hazardous waste disposal facilities. To adapt these facilities for the treatment of NSCWM secondary wastes, equipment modifications or permit modifications may be required, but the technical feasibility seems... 

In the following areas, the committee judges the treatment options that are available or in the pipeline to be insufficient to permit the non-stockpile program to meet its goals. Additional investment or planning efforts are needed. 

Disposal of chemical projectiles larger than 155 mm and large (500 or 1,000 lb) bombs presents a special challenge to the non-stockpile program. Although such munitions are rarely recovered in the United States, they have been recovered as a result of U.S. activities in at least one foreign country, and it is likely they will be found on U.S. soil in the future. 

Recommendation The non-stockpile program shonld continue to monitor the Belgian tests of the DBC. If the results are encouraging and it appears that the DBC can be permitted in the United States, it should be considered for nse at sites where prompt disposal of large numbers of munitions is required (Recommendation 2-9). 

A major uncertainty for the non-stockpile program is the extent to which suspected burial sites will be excavated and what items will be found and recovered. Remediation efforts are under way or planned at the following sites former Camp... 

The histories of the stockpile program, the non-stockpile program, and the use of mobile incinerators in hazardous waste site cleanups demonstrate that classical incineration often generates strong public opposition. There are concerns over the impact on local communities of the potential emission of small amounts of chemical agents not destroyed, as well as low concentrations of chemicals that are inevitably formed inside incinerators (e.g., polychlorinated dibenzodioxins) (Greenpeace, 2001 EPA, 1998 Sierra Club, 2001). 

As indicated above, although there have been some bright spots (MAPS at APG and the EDS-1 at RMA) in the RAP process for the non-stockpile program, PMNSCM and some of the states have experienced excessive delays and unusually high expenses during the RAP process. 

In consideration of these circumstances, the committee believes that the states may not possess sufficient resources to make regulatory determinations for the non-stockpile program within the time frame required by the CWC schedule. While the Army provides funds to the states under cooperative agreements to oversee chemical agent operations, it is unclear whether the states are being provided sufficient funds given these unique challenges. 

Finding 4-8. Certain state regulators have been considering reqniring that secondary wastes be agent-free before they are released to off-site facilities. This wonld pose a serious problem for the non-stockpile program, becanse NSCWM can be recovered anywhere and the off-site transport of secondary wastes may be a viable management option. 

Two committee members and the study director made an initial visit in August 2001 to Pine Bluff Arsenal and the White Hall Outreach Office, one of two offices established by PMCD. They met with outreach staff and technical staff associated with the stockpile and non-stockpile programs, as well as with the chairperson of the Pine Blnff Stockpile Citi-... 

There have long been significant concerns with the transportation of chemical warfare materiel. These concerns have been one of the driving forces behind the development of transportable treatment systems by the Army. This section presents an overview of transportation alternatives and related issues for the non-stockpile program. 

As of 1997, the non-stockpile program director stated that all the recoveries would fit in the trunk of his economy car. I told him he should get a... 

In 1992 when the non-stockpile program began, the first order of business was to define the scope of the effort. A search through the records yielded the following chemicals as concerns for the non-stockpile program ... 

Monitoring procedures for the non-stockpile program rely on five specific types of operations ... 

Non-Stockpile Program Statns LTC Chris RossAVayne Jennings NSPCM... 

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