Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement: Destruction of Non- Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel Containing Chemical Agent

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The Department of the Army announces its intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on the destruction of chemical warfare materiel (CWM) containing chemical agent and to initiate the public scoping process for the PEIS. The PEIS is being prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as amended. The U. S. Army's Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization has the responsibility for the destruction of the nation's chemical warfare materiel. The Program Manager has established project managers to accomplish this goal. The Project Manager for Chemical Stockpile Disposal is responsible for destroying the stockpile of unitary chemical weapons in the Department of Defense/Department of Army inventory (called stockpile). The PEIS for destroying the stockpile materiel was completed in 1988, and the destruction program is in progress at two locations--Johnston Island in the Pacific and Tooele, Utah. The Project Manager for Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel (NSCM) analysis include: (1) on-site chemical treatment of CWM with off-site destruction of the resultant wastes either by thermal destruction or another disposal method; (2) on-site