CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND MATERIEL: Key Factors Affecting Disposal Costs and Schedule
Abstract
In 1985, the Congress passed Public Law 99-145 directing the Army to destroy the U.S. stockpile of obsolete chemical agents and munitions. The stockpile consists of rockets, bombs, projectiles, spray tanks, and bulk containers, which contain nerve and mustard agents. It is stored at eight sites in the continental United States and on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. To comply with congressional direction, the Army established the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program and developed a plan to incinerate the agents and munitions on site in specially designed facilities. Recognizing that the stockpile program did not include all chemical warfare materiel requiring disposal, the Congress directed the Army in 1992 to plan for the disposal of materiel not included in the stockpile. This materiel, some of which dates back as far as World War I, consists of binary chemical weapons, miscellaneous chemical warfare materiel, recovered chemical weapons, former production facilities, and buried chemical warfare materiel. In 1992, the Army established the Nonstockpile Chemical Materiel Program to dispose of the materiel.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- AD1177597
Entities
People
- Bonita J. Page
- Glenn D. Furbish
- Henry Hinton
- Mark A. Little
- Thomas J. Howard
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office