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The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) is a chemical weapons destruction facility that has been built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, in southeastern Colorado. The depot contains munitions containing 2,611 tons of mustard agent that are part of the U.S. national chemical weapons stockpile. The weapons have been stored at the depot since the 1950s. Destruction of this stockpile is a requirement of the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty to which the United States is a party. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention and monitors the progress of the nation’s chemical weapons destruction programs. The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) oversees the destruction of the Pueblo chemical weapons stockpile. Bechtel Pueblo Team (BPT) (consisting of Bechtel National, Inc., URS and Battelle Memorial Institute) will design, construct, pilot test, operate and close PCAPP. ==Planning of activities== After systemization of the facility, destruction operations are expected to begin in 2016 and to be complete by 2019. 〔http://www.peoacwa.army.mil/media-toolkit/press-releases/dod-approves-new-cost/〕 The plant will operate until all the chemical weapons have been destroyed. Closure activities (shut-down, dismantling, and restoration of site) are slated to be wrapped up by 2022. In 2010, the Pueblo Chemical Depot, in conjunction with the ACWA program, completed an environmental assessment (EA) to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, and Title 32 Code of Federal Regulations Part 651〔assessment for meeting the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, and Title 32 Code of Federal Regulations Part 651〕 regarding the construction and operation of the U.S. Army’s Explosive Destruction System (EDS) and/or other explosive destruction technologies (EDT), at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado.〔http://www.peoacwa.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/ACWA_News_Release_26Feb10.pdf〕 The EA was withdrawn and a new EA was completed in 2012.〔http://www.peoacwa.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/acwa_edt_press_release13sept10.pdf〕 The new EA focused on the use of EDT for destroying overpacked and reject munitions.〔http://www.peoacwa.army.mil/pcapp/explosive-destruction-technology-edt-at-pcapp/〕 In April 2013, Program Executive Officer Conrad F. Whyne announced his selection of EDS to augment the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant for the safe destruction of chemical munitions unsuited for processing by the main plant’s automated equipment.〔http://www.peoacwa.army.mil/media-toolkit/facts-pages/facts-page-pcapp-explosive-destruction-system-eds/〕 == History of chemical demilitarization in Colorado== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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