Munitions Action Plan draft available for review

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In what appears to be an precedented, and definitely a positive move,
the Department of Defense (DoD) is circulating a draft of its Munitions
Action Plan to non-DoD stakeholders for review and comment at the same
time it is reviewing the document internally. The Munitions Action Plan
is an internal DoD management document, not a rule or regulation, being
developed by the Department's Operational and Environmental Executive
Steering Committee for Munitions (OEESCM). 

The purpose of the Plan is "to improve the DoD's environmental and
explosives safety practices throughout the munitions life cycle." It
addresses specific objectives in Acquisition (design and purchasing),
Stockpile Management, Range and Munitions Use, Demilitarization, Range
Responses (including cleanup), and Stakeholder Involvement.

The full draft Munitions Aciton Plan, complete with a memorandum to
stakeholders, is available on the Worldwide Web at 
http://www.denix.osd.mil/MAP. The document is 65 pages long. The
official deadline for comments is October 25, 1999.



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org