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From page 1... ... The DCAPP�Pueblo committee has reviewed and assessed the proposal submitted by the Bechtel Pueblo Team (BPT) for the design 1 These are the definitions of the acronyms used throughout this letter: APB, agent processing building; BPT, Bechtel Pueblo Team; BTA, biotreatment area; ERB, enhanced reconfiguration building; MTU, munitions treatment unit; PCAPP, Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant; PMACWA, Program Manager, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives; PMD, projectile/mortar disassembly machine. Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... An earlier NRC committee had already completed a report on the original design, Interim Design Assessment for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (NRC, 2005) , in which it assessed the unit operations and system integration. Read the entire page →
From page 3... ... , where lifting lugs, fuzes, and bursters are separated from the projectile bodies that still contain chemical agent sealed in the projectile body by the burster well. BPT plans to send noncontaminated energetics2 off-site to an existing permitted disposal facility. Read the entire page →
From page 4... ... Enhanced Clean Energetics, Reconfiguration: Munitions from Baseline Parts, and Dunnage Projectile/Mortar Storage Igloos Reconfiguration to Off-site Disposal Disassembly Machine Rejects and Agent-Filled Leakers Munition Bodies Clean Solids to Explosive Off-site Disposal Destruction Technology Hazardous Liquid Process Water Recovery: Water Munitions Agent Collection Hydrolysate Recovery System and Biotreatment Washout System and Brine Neutralization Area Reduction System System Solid Residue to Off-site Disposal Off-gas Off-gas and Clean Off-gas to Treatment HVAC Filtration: Atmosphere System Agent Filter Area Munitions Contaminated Secondary and Closure Solid Waste Treatment: Supplemental Treatment Unit Decontamination Unit/Autoclave Clean Munition Clean Secondary and Bodies to Off-site Closure Waste to Off Disposal site Disposal FIGURE 1 Functional block diagram for the PCAPP intermediate redesign. Noncontaminated rounds are transported to the APB, where they enter the munitions washout system. Read the entire page →
From page 5... ... App., as cited on page 2. Documents reviewed include, but are not limited to, the following: � System design descriptions for the agent collection and neutralization system, autoclave, biotreatment system, brine reduction system, explosive destruction technology, munitions transport and storage system, MTU, munitions unpack and PMD, munitions washout system, off-gas treatment system, residue handling, and supplemental decontamination unit; � Other technical information on the cavity access machines, explosive destruction technology, munitions handling robots, MTU, prototype PMD, and secondary waste streams and waste container traffic; � An engineering study of on-site materiel transfer alternatives for munitions delivery and secondary waste handling; � The throughput and availability analysis for PCAPP; � The PCAPP plot plan; 5 Read the entire page →
From page 6... ... Finding 2. The Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant design could be further simplified by treating agent hydrolysate off-site if institutionally feasible. Read the entire page →
From page 7... ... Recommendation 4. The mismatch in processing rates between the munitions washout system and other Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant system components should be resolved. Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... Sincerely, Robert A Beaudet, Chair Committee to Review and Assess the Proposals for Design and Operation of Designated Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (DCAPP�Pueblo Committee) Read the entire page →
From page 9... ... Plan of Action In response to the request by the Department of Defense and the Program Manager, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, the National Research Council established the Committee to Review and Assess the Proposals for Design and Operation of Designated Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (DCAPP-Pueblo Committee) to receive, review, and assess the proposals submitted by the Bechtel Pueblo Team for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant in Pueblo, Colorado. Read the entire page →
From page 10... ... Previously, he served on the NRC's Board on Army Science and Technology (BAST) , on the NRC Committee on Review of the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program, and as a BAST liaison to the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee) Read the entire page →
From page 11... ... Barton serves as the statewide public health resource, providing health consultations and advice to other environment and health-related agencies as well as to health-care providers and to business and industry representatives. He currently directs, or has directed, a host of Iowa Department of Public Health programs, including programs for PCBs, radon, water treatment system registration, hazardous substances emergency surveillance, hazardous waste site health assessment, risk assessment for the Superfund program, the Iowa toxicology program, and many others. Read the entire page →
From page 12... ... He has been a member of the NRC Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies, the Panel on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Chemical Disposal Technologies, and the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, where he served as chair for 2 years. Read the entire page →
From page 13... ... Stenstrom was with Amoco Oil Company, where he performed research to improve petroleum refinery wastewater treatment facilities for five Amoco refineries. He is very familiar with the design and operation of municipal treatment systems and industrial treatment and pretreatment systems. Read the entire page →
From page 14... ... 2006g. Process Design Throughput and Availability Analysis, Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) Read the entire page →
From page 15... ... 2005. Interim Design Assessment for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant. Read the entire page →
From page 16... ... App., as amended by the Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 1997, PL 105-153, December 17, 1997, 111 Stat. Read the entire page →
From page 17... ... Ladisch, NAE, Purdue University Peter Lederman, Hazardous Substance Management Research Center (retired) Harold D Read the entire page →

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... The DCAPP�Pueblo committee has reviewed and assessed the proposal submitted by the Bechtel Pueblo Team (BPT) for the design 1 These are the definitions of the acronyms used throughout this letter: APB, agent processing building; BPT, Bechtel Pueblo Team; BTA, biotreatment area; ERB, enhanced reconfiguration building; MTU, munitions treatment unit; PCAPP, Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant; PMACWA, Program Manager, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives; PMD, projectile/mortar disassembly machine.

Letter Report Pages 1-17

Letter Report
Pages 1-17