"Green" bullets study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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'Green' ammo study devised
Experts are trying to determine if the bullets used at Camp Edwards 
could be toxic.

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times
July 22, 2004

CAMP EDWARDS - Army environmental officials were at Camp Edwards 
yesterday to plot the first tests that will determine what the Army's 
"green" bullets do in Cape soil.

About 800,000 rounds of tungsten-nylon bullets have been used at ranges 
on the Massachusetts Military Reservation since the Environmental 
Protection Agency banned the use of lead ammunition in 1997.

Although the Army heralded the tungsten-nylon bullets as more 
environmentally friendly, recent research into the metal has raised 
questions about its toxicity and ability to move in soil.

Research into the specific ammunition used on the Cape has not yet been 
completed.

The Massachusetts National Guard, one of only a handful of military 
organizations nationwide that use the bullets, has agreed to let the 
Army Environmental Center, from Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, 
access the base for research purposes.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/reenzxammo22.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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