Tooele, Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System

U.S. Army. 1983. Final Demilitarization Plan for Operation of the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) at the Tooele Army Depot, Utah, June. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. USATFIAMA. 

Figure 14. Chemical agent munitions disposal system (CAMDS) at Tooele Army...

During the 1970s, the Army, as DOD s lead service in chemical matters, constructed and operated a pilot Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System at the Tooele Army Depot in Utah. Using this pilot system, the... 

Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) Research facility at Tooele, Utah, capable of destroying non-stockpile munitions containing agent fills not easily accommodated at other facihties, e.g., lewisite... 

Deseret. The incineration facility at Tooele provides a technically feasible alternative for destruction of 157 of the 174 non-stockpile items stored at Deseret. The other 17 items contain lewisite and are better suited for destruction at the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS). The Tooele CDF is scheduled to complete its stockpile mission in the fourth quarter of 2003, so it would be available to treat the non-stockpile items. Existing permits would need to be modified and the public would need to agree. 

Concurrent with the start of construction of JACADS in 1987, the Army requested that the NRC review and evaluate the CSDP and provide advice and counsel. The NRC established the standing Stockpile Committee for that purpose, beginning with a study of operational verification testing at JACADS, which was completed in March 1993. Several reports issued by the committee (e.g., Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions [NRC, 1994a] and Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility [NRC, 1996]) concluded that the baseline incineration system was an adequate and safe method of disposing of the stockpile (see Appendix A for a complete list of Stockpile Committee reports). 

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