Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions (2019) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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The SOT specifically focuses on the DoD conventional • An analysis of disposal, treatment, and reuse technolomunitions demilitarization stockpile.1 The Army sponsor for gies, including technologies currently used by the Departthis study, the Office of the Product Director for Demilitar ment and emerging technologies used or being developed ization (PD Demil) , defines this as the munitions stockpile by private or other governmental agencies, including a currently being stored and destroyed at seven Army stockpile comparison of cost, throughput capacity, personnel safety, depots,2 referred to by the Army as "organic capabilities."3 and environmental impacts.
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Hence, the committee investigation and analysis technology for decades. OB conducted for munitions in the is focused on the five tasks set forth in the SOT and on the stockpile at the stockpile sites consists mainly of spreading current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile.4 out propellants in an open-top metal burn pan located in an The words energetic compounds (or energetic materials)
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evaluation.9 The use of alternative technologies must also meet regula TRANSITION FROM OB/OD TO CB/CD tory requirements under RCRA. As with OB/OD, in order to receive an RCRA permit, alternative technologies must be The last Demilitarization Enterprise stated strategic goal protective of human health and the environment.
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undergoing cleanup are complicated by contamination from adjacent operations or processes. Some, for example, were In accordance with this goal, DoD presented information located adjacent to munitions production sites that released to the committee indicating that the Army has already sig- the same types of constituents as are typically associated nificantly reduced use of OB/OD in favor of CB/CD.11 The with OB/OD sites.15 In these cases, it is difficult to discern Army estimated that the use of OB/OD as demilitarization whether the source of the contamination at legacy sites was treatment methods has declined from an estimated 80 percent from the OB/OD operation, from adjacent operations or of demilitarized munitions in the mid-1980s to an average of processes, or more likely, a combination of both.
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In this report, these limits the issuance of RCRA permits for OB/OD facilities technologies are contrasted against OB/OD, but they are not or that promotes alternative technologies.16 Similarly, two purposely contrasted against each other. authorized state environmental agencies with jurisdiction Also important, while the SOT is clearly focused on over Army stockpile OB/OD facilities stated that there is no evaluation of alternative technologies, the baseline is OB and current regulation or official policy that prohibits or limits OD.
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While came about because of continuing concerns about the human there are limited cleanup cost data on legacy sites, these cost health and environmental impacts of OB/OD that have been data have limited applicability to the comparison of existing expressed by public interest groups. Public opposition to OB/ RCRA permitted OB/OD units with cleanup costs of alterOD has occurred primarily around other facilities (other than native technologies.
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Chapter 3 summarizes conventional OB/OD technologies Appendix C discusses the Military Munitions Rule. conducted under RCRA permits.
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