Chemical Demilitarization Program 1
Chemical Demilitarization Program 1 : The Department of Defense was directed by Congress through Public Law 99-145 as the government agency responsible for the destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile. This program is also responsible ensuring maximum protection to the environment, general public, and personnel involved in the destruction effort. To comply with treaty agreements and Congressional mandate, destruction of these weapons must be complete by 2007. The Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization is responsible for the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program that consists of four separate programs - (a) The Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CDSP): responsible for the destruction of the U.S. stockpile of unitary chemical weapons. The current technology uses manual unpacking, automated disassembly, and incineration of agent, explosives, metal, and dunnage in four separate incinerators, followed by exhaust gas processing through separate pollution abatement systems. (b) The Alternative Technologies and Approaches (ATA): responsible for conducting pilot testing of alternative destruction technologies that may be implemented in future chemical weapon destruction facilities. (c) The Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program (NSCMP): responsible for the destruction of non-stockpile chemical warfare material, including binary chemical weapons, miscellaneous chemical warfare materiel, recovered chemical weapons, former production facilities, and buried chemical warfare materiel. (d) The Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP): responsible for providing maximum protection of the civilian population during storage, handling, and destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile by improving state and local governments preparedness for an accidental release of agent. http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/chemde/index.asp
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