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Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Quarterly Update

September 12, 2012

Presented to:Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and Kentucky Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board

Presented by:Anthony ReedDeputy Site Project Manager

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Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program will be realigned from having been a separate reporting activity of Army Materiel Command (AMC) to that of a Program Executive Office attached to the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC)

Change from Program Manager to PEO was made to increase visibility, obtain greater support

ACWA will continue to report directly to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as required by law

USAASC is a Direct Reporting Unit (DRU)

– A “DRU” is an Army organization comprised of one or more units with institutional or operational support functions normally to provide broad general support to the Army in a single, unique discipline not otherwise available elsewhere in the Army

Programmatic Update

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Programmatic Update (cont.)

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Line Authority Support and Administrative Attachment

Mr. Andrew WeberAssistant Secretary of Defense(Nuclear , Chemical and Biological Defense

Programs)

Dr. Tom Hopkins Deputy Assistant

Secretary of Defense (Threat Reduction and Arms Control)

Ms. Heidi ShyuAssistant Secretary of the Army

(Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) Army Acquisition Executive

Mr. Craig Spisak Director

U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center

Mr. Conrad WhyneProgram Executive Officer

Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

Mr. Frank KendallUnder Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)

Defense Acquisition Executive

Intermediate Headquarters Omitted

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Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Schedule

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Operations

Closure

Construction

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Construction now more than 56 percent complete

Systemization activities now more than 2 percent complete

All Munitions Demilitarization Building (MDB) concrete has been placed

MDB structural steel topping off is currently scheduled for October

Laboratory Building is nearing completion and early phases of systemization will soon commence

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A project ironworker grinds concrete around an embed in the Munitions Demilitarization Building. All concrete on the MDB is now complete.

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Construction update video on Facebook

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Explosive Destruction Technologies

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process is underway– ACWA is well into the NEPA Environmental Assessment (EA)

– BGCAPP continues to communicate with the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection on the potential permitting process

Pueblo has Finding of No Significant Impact

– No significant environmental impacts to result from installation and operation of Explosive Destruction Technology at Pueblo Chemical Depot

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Questions/Discussion

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For more information about the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant project, please contact the Blue Grass Chemical Stockpile Outreach Office at (859) 626-8944