blue grass chemical agent-destruction pilot plant quarterly update september 12, 2012
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Presented to: Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and Kentucky Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board Presented by: Anthony Reed Deputy Site Project ManagerTRANSCRIPT
A Partnership for Safe Chemical Weapons Destruction
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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SystemizationBlue Grass
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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
Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Update (cont’d)
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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