Download or read book Infrastructure and Environment Army Response to Chemical Agent Incident at Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress required DoD to destroy about 31,500 tons of highly toxic chemical agents by April 2007, the deadline set by an international treaty for the elimination of all chemical weapon stockpiles. The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Army shared program responsibility. During July 2002, of the eight programmed chemical agent disposal program facilities, Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility was the only site operating. On July 15, 2002, at 8:20 a.m., two contractor maintenance workers entered the liquid incinerator primary room to perform non-routine maintenance. The portable GE agent monitor alarmed, and during a change of equipment the worker transferred contamination from his leather glove to his head, hair, and respirator. The exposed worker experienced miosis (reduction of eye pupil), red blood cell cholinesterase depression, disorientation, headaches, blurry vision, tightness in the chest, and a runny nose, all symptoms indicative of exposure to GE agent. This chemical event was the first reported significant exposure to a worker during the life of the program. The Army response to the chemical agent accident included separate investigations by the systems contractor and the Army.
Download or read book Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-04-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, the Army completed construction of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), the first complete facility for destruction of lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions to be built in the continental United States. The TOCDF will employ the Army's baseline incineration system to destroy the depot's increment of the nation's aging unitary chemical stockpile. This book assesses Army changes and improvements to the TOCDF in response to recommendations contained in earlier reports of the committee. It assesses aspects of the facility's readiness for safe agent handling and destruction operations, its agent monitoring system, and its site specific risk assessment.
Download or read book Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews the status of the U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) operations at Tooele, Utah, with respect to previous recommendations and observations made by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee). The committee recognizes actions that have satisfied recommendations, identifies recommendations that require further action, and provides additional recommendations for improving the overall CSDP performance at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), Tooele, Utah, and other sites.
Download or read book Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-12-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade the Army has been carrying out a program aimed at the destruction of accumulated chemical weapons stored at several sites. While destruction by incineration has been successful, several incidentsâ€"called chemical eventsâ€"occurred during the disposal process or decontamination activities that raised some public concerns about the safety of operations of three third generation incineration facilities. As a result, the Congress asked the NRC to investigate whether the incidents provide information useful to help ensure safe operation of the future sites. This book presents an analysis of causes of and responses to past chemical events, implications of such events for ongoing and future demilitarization activities, and recommendations for preparing for future events.
Download or read book Tooele Army Depot Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk Assessment and Management at Deseret Chemical Depot and the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tooele Army Depot Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TOCDF written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operation RMT Chemical Material Transport Rocky Mountain Arsenal to Tooele Army Depot CO UT written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Department of Defense s Chemical Weapons Destruction Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In keeping with a congressional mandate (Public Law 104-484) and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is currently destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. The Army must ensure that the chemical demilitarization workforce is protected from the risks of exposure to hazardous chemicals during disposal operations and during and after facility closure. Good industrial practices developed in the chemical and nuclear energy industries and other operations that involve the processing of hazardous materials include workplace monitoring of hazardous species and a systematic occupational health program for monitoring workers' activities and health. In this report, the National Research Council Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program examines the methods and systems used at JACADS and TOCDF, the two operational facilities, to monitor the concentrations of airborne and condensed-phase chemical agents, agent breakdown products, and other substances of concern. The committee also reviews the occupational health programs at these sites, including their industrial hygiene and occupational medicine components. Finally, it evaluates the nature, quality, and utility of records of workplace chemical monitoring and occupational health programs.
Download or read book Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only three countries will possess chemical weapons-the United States, Russia, and Libya. In the United States, destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile began in 1990, when Congress mandated that the Army and its contractors destroy the stockpile while ensuring maximum safety for workers, the public, and the environment. The destruction program has proceeded without serious exposure of any worker or member of the public to chemical agents, and risk to the public from a storage incident involving the aging stockpile has been reduced by more than 90 percent from what it was at the time destruction began on Johnston Island and in the continental United States. At this time, safety at chemical agent disposal facilities is far better than the national average for all industries. Even so, the Army and its contractors are desirous of further improvement. To this end, the Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) asked the NRC to assist by reviewing CMA's existing safety and environmental metrics and making recommendations on which additional metrics might be developed to further improve its safety and environmental programs.
Download or read book Chemical Event at Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the Army Non Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-01-03 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a review and evaluation of the U.S. Army's Report to Congress on Alternative Approaches for the Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (CAIS). CAIS are test kits that were used to train soldiers from 1928 to 1969 in defensive responses to a chemical attack. They contain samples of chemicals that had been or might have been used by opponents as chemical warfare agents. The Army's baseline approach for treating and disposing of CAIS has been to develop a mobile treatment system, called the Rapid Response System (RRS), which can be carried by several large over-the-road trailers.
Download or read book Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program Public comments and responses RC 1 RC 2 and RC 3 written by Charles Baronian and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
