[CPEO-MEF] NAS report on Chem Weapons Stockpile demilitarization secondary waste

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

The National Academies
Office of News and Public Information

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 26, 2007

Report Recommends Off-Site Disposal of Secondary Waste From Chemical 
Agent Destruction


WASHINGTON -- It is both technically feasible and advantageous for the 
U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) to use off-site facilities 
to dispose of secondary waste during regular chemical agent disposal 
operations, says a new report from the National Research Council.  The 
committee that wrote the report also determined that the provision in 
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act allowing the submission of 
data from previous trial burns -- test runs required to prove the 
effectiveness of incinerators in destroying certain agents -- in lieu of 
new trial burns should be used to the fullest extent possible.

"The Army's incinerators are destroying the United States' stockpiled 
chemical weapons, but the on-site capacity is just not enough for 
treating high volumes of secondary wastes such as carbon, wood dunnage, 
or protective gear," said committee chair Peter B. Lederman, retired 
executive director of the Hazardous Substance Management Research 
Center, Newark, N.J.  "Destroying the secondary waste concurrently at 
off-site locations whenever appropriate will dramatically improve 
closure operations."

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For a link to the entire press release, full report, and other 
documents, go to http://www.nas.edu/morenews/20070726.html

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Lenny Siegel
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