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Title: Disposal of chemical agents and munitions stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Abstract

The Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is one of eight continental United States (CONUS) Army installations where lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions are stored and where destruction of agents and munitions is proposed under the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP). The chemical agent inventory at PBA consists of approximately 12%, by weight, of the total US stockpile. The destruction of the stockpile is necessary to eliminate the risk to the public from continued storage and to dispose of obsolete and leaking munitions. In 1988 the US Army issued a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for the CSDP that identified on-site disposal of agents and munitions as the environmentally preferred alternative (i.e., the alternative with the least potential to cause significant adverse impacts). The purpose of this report is to examine the proposed implementation of on-site disposal at PBA in light of more recent and more detailed data than those on which the FPEIS is based. New population data were used to compute fatalities using the same computation methods and values for all other parameters as in the FPEIS. Results indicate that all alternatives are indistinguishable when the potential health impacts to the PBA community aremore » considered. However, risks from on-site disposal are in all cases equal to or less than risks from other alternatives. Furthermore, no unique resources with the potential to prevent or delay implementation of on-site disposal at PBA have been identified.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOD; Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5823805
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-11209
ON: DE92007786
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-84OR21400
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AMMUNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; ACCIDENTS; ARKANSAS; CONTAINERS; ECOSYSTEMS; GROUND WATER; HUMAN POPULATIONS; LAND USE; LEAKS; METEOROLOGY; MILITARY FACILITIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROCKETS; STORAGE; SURFACE WATERS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EXPLOSIVES; FEDERAL REGION VI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MANAGEMENT; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POPULATIONS; USA; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER; WEAPONS; 540250* - Environment, Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-); 540350 - Environment, Aquatic- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Ensminger, J T, Hillsman, E L, Johnson, R D, Morrisey, J A, Staub, W P, Boston, C R, Hunsaker, D B, Leibsch, E, Rickert, L W, Tolbert, V R, and Zimmerman, G P. Disposal of chemical agents and munitions stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. United States: N. p., 1991. Web. doi:10.2172/5823805.
Ensminger, J T, Hillsman, E L, Johnson, R D, Morrisey, J A, Staub, W P, Boston, C R, Hunsaker, D B, Leibsch, E, Rickert, L W, Tolbert, V R, & Zimmerman, G P. Disposal of chemical agents and munitions stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5823805
Ensminger, J T, Hillsman, E L, Johnson, R D, Morrisey, J A, Staub, W P, Boston, C R, Hunsaker, D B, Leibsch, E, Rickert, L W, Tolbert, V R, and Zimmerman, G P. 1991. "Disposal of chemical agents and munitions stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5823805. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5823805.
@article{osti_5823805,
title = {Disposal of chemical agents and munitions stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, Arkansas},
author = {Ensminger, J T and Hillsman, E L and Johnson, R D and Morrisey, J A and Staub, W P and Boston, C R and Hunsaker, D B and Leibsch, E and Rickert, L W and Tolbert, V R and Zimmerman, G P},
abstractNote = {The Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA) near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is one of eight continental United States (CONUS) Army installations where lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions are stored and where destruction of agents and munitions is proposed under the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP). The chemical agent inventory at PBA consists of approximately 12%, by weight, of the total US stockpile. The destruction of the stockpile is necessary to eliminate the risk to the public from continued storage and to dispose of obsolete and leaking munitions. In 1988 the US Army issued a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for the CSDP that identified on-site disposal of agents and munitions as the environmentally preferred alternative (i.e., the alternative with the least potential to cause significant adverse impacts). The purpose of this report is to examine the proposed implementation of on-site disposal at PBA in light of more recent and more detailed data than those on which the FPEIS is based. New population data were used to compute fatalities using the same computation methods and values for all other parameters as in the FPEIS. Results indicate that all alternatives are indistinguishable when the potential health impacts to the PBA community are considered. However, risks from on-site disposal are in all cases equal to or less than risks from other alternatives. Furthermore, no unique resources with the potential to prevent or delay implementation of on-site disposal at PBA have been identified.},
doi = {10.2172/5823805},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5823805}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991},
month = {Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991}
}