[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Green Ammo order

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Alliant Lake City gets 'green' ammo order

Kansas City Business Journal
October 23, 2008

Alliant Lake City Small Caliber Ammunition Co. LLC received a $6 million 
order for M855 "green" ammunition from the U.S. Department of Defense.

...

According to the Defense Technical Information Center, a field activity 
of the Department of Defense, the DOD's Green Bullet Program seeks to 
reduce the use of lead-antimony in ammunition used at training ranges 
and replace it with nontoxic alloys to prevent lead contamination in 
soil and surrounding areas. The military started using green bullets at 
training ranges in October 1999.




For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/10/20/daily19.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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