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OMB No. 0704-0188
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1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YY)
2. REPORT TYPE
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
March 2001
Technical Report
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Characterizing Range Scrap and Developing Quality Assurance
Coupons for Hot Gas Decontamination Trials
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
Alan D. Hewitt
5e. TASK NUMBER
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
72 Lyme Road
ERDC/CRREL TR-01-7
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1290
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
U.S. Army Environmental Center
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010
11. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S REPORT
NUMBER(S)
SFIM-AEC-ET-CR-200110
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Available from NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
Characterization and decontamination of range scrap are relatively new compliance issues for military training and testing facilities. This
report describes the development of an approach for characterizing energetic residues on range scrap and a method to assess the perfor-
mance of a low-cost hot gas decontamination system. The procedure used to identify secondary explosives on range scrap involves a two-
tiered analytical process. Initially, simple wet chemical tests that can be interpreted visually were used on-site to screen readily accessible
and partly enclosed surfaces, then samples were collected for analyte-specific methods of analysis. Another objective of this study was to
develop quality assurance samples that could be used to optimize the hot gas decontamination treatment system and, thereafter, to satisfy
regulatory agency requirements for monitoring its performance.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
Hot gas decontamination
Wipe sampling
Field screening
Range scrap
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