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5 Public Participation
Pages 40-45

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... and a CAC Mechanisms for Public Outreach and Involvement subsidiary, the Chemical Destruction Community Advisory The communities around the Blue Grass Army Depot Board (CDCAB)
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... . Kentucky Division of Emergency Management CWWG brings to the Blue Grass community its long Blue Grass Chemical Activity term involvement with secondary wastes at other sites, Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection including the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives in Indiana, where it has gone to court, unsuccessfully thus Blue Grass Army Depot far, to prevent the offsite disposal of hydrolysate from the neutralization of VX nerve agent.
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... as a commitment to the community. To PCAPP Stakeholder INTERACTIONS AND Issues gether with Blue Grass Army Depot, the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program has worked with the com Mechanisms for Public Outreach and Involvement munity in selecting neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO)
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... . Sierra Club The Pueblo Chemical Stockpile Outreach Office main- Governor's Office of Policy and Initiatives tains a mailing list of more than 2,000 people, publishes a Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment newsletter and project updates, and runs a speakers bureau that makes presentations to civic groups, business organiza- SOURCE: Adapted from PMACWA, 2007b.
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... While there is active community opposition to offsite Issues Specific to the Treatment of PCAPP Hydrolysates shipment of agent-contaminated hydrolysate, most parties The CAC and other active members of the Pueblo agree that the community at large is more concerned about community have repeatedly opposed the offsite shipment the continuing presence of chemical weapons in the area. of agent hydrolysate for treatment and disposal.
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... The PMACWA should explain to the affairs program that includes the Pueblo Chemical Stockpile public precisely how it plans to determine whether a particuOutreach Office and its field activities, the communities lar waste stream is suitable for shipment, including analytical around Pueblo Chemical Depot have ample opportunity to procedures for showing whether the stream contains any learn about PCAPP operations as well as proposed second- residual contamination by an agent or its by-products. ary waste disposal.
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  • chemical stockpile
  • grass army
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  • offsite disposal
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  • supercritical water
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  • water oxidation


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