[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Site Characterization For Munitions Constituents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In January, 2012 U.S. EPA's Federal Facilities Forum released a new  
Issue Paper, "Site Characterization For Munitions Constituents."

"The main focus of this issue paper is to provide remedial project  
managers and corrective action project officers with a summary of  
information regarding the nature of munition constituents (MC) with  
an emphasis on energetic residues and metals at military training  
ranges and munitions open burn (OB) and open detonation (OD)  
demolition units. For this document, MC will refer to chemicals  
associated with military explosives and propellants. This will  
include some background on the physical and chemical properties of  
energetic chemicals and residues, how residues are deposited and  
amounts of residue produced from different detonations and firing  
activities, results of investigations describing the accumulation and  
distribution of residues at different types of military ranges and OB/ 
OD units, a comparison of methods for the collection of  
representative soil samples on ranges, and a summary of laboratory  
methods designed to pro-vide adequate characterization of these soil  
samples. White phosphorus is discussed in a case study in Appendix  
A1, but no other smoke munitions or illumination munitions will be  
discussed in this document."

To download the 170-page, 7.9 MB PDF document, go to
http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/pdf/ 
site_characterization_for_munitions_constituents.pdf

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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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