AEDA - Ammunition, Explosives, and other Dangerous Articles

Demilitarization
Destruction of MM, or having key components removed or destroyed. To mutilate,
disarm, neutralize, and accomplish any other action required to render ammunition,
explosives, and chemical agents innocuous or ineffectual for military use.
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Discarded Military Munitions (DMM)

Military munitions that have been abandoned without proper disposal or removed from
storage in a military magazine or other storage area for the purpose of disposal. The
term does not include unexploded ordnance (UXO), military munitions that are being
held for future use or planned disposal, or military munitions that have been properly
disposed of, consistent with applicable environmental laws and regulations. [10 U.S.C.
2710(e)(2)]
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Disposition
Reusing, recycling, converting, redistributing, transferring, donating, selling,
demilitarizing, treating, destroying, or fulfilling other lifecycle guidance, for DoD property
subject to these standards.
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(MDAS) Materials Documented As Safe

Material Potentially Presenting an Explosive Hazard (MPPEH)

Material potentially containing explosives or munitions (for example, munitions
containers and packaging material; munitions debris remaining after munitions use;
demilitarization, or disposal; and range-related debris); or material potentially containing
a high enough concentration of explosives such that the material presents an explosive
hazard (such as equipment, drainage systems, holding tanks, piping, or ventilation
ducts that were associated with munitions production, demilitarization or disposal
operations). Excluded from MPPEH are munitions within DoD’s established munitions
management system and other hazardous items that may present explosion hazards
(for example, gasoline cans or compressed gas cylinders) that are not munitions and
are not intended for use as munitions.
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Military Munitions (MM)
Military munitions means all ammunition products and components produced for or
used by the armed forces for national defense and security, including ammunition
products or components under the control of the Department of Defense, the Coast
Guard, the Department of Energy, and the National Guard. The term includes confined
gaseous, liquid, and solid propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics, chemical and riot
control agents, smokes, and incendiaries, including bulk explosives and chemical
warfare agents, chemical munitions, rockets, guided and ballistic missiles, bombs,
warheads, mortar rounds, artillery ammunition, small arms ammunition, grenades,
mines, torpedoes, depth charges, cluster munitions and dispensers, demolition charges,
and devices and components thereof. The term does not include wholly inert items,
improvised explosive devices, and nuclear weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear
components, except that the term does include non-nuclear components of nuclear
devices that are managed under the nuclear weapons program of the Department of
Energy after all required sanitization operations under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954
(42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) have been completed. [10 U.S.C. 101(e)(4)(A) through (C)].
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Munitions Constituents (MC)

Any materials originating from unexploded ordnance, discarded military munitions, or
other military munitions, including explosive and non-explosive materials, and emission,
degradation, or breakdown elements of such ordnance or munitions. [10 U.S.C.
2710(e)(3)].
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Munitions Debris (MD)

Remnants of munitions (e.g., fragments, penetrators, projectiles, shell casings, links,
fins) remaining after munitions use, demilitarization, or disposal.
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Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC)

This term, which distinguishes specific categories of military munitions that may pose
unique explosives safety risks means: (A) Unexploded ordnance (UXO), as defined in
10 U.S.C. 101(e)(5)(A) through (C); (B) Discarded military munitions (DMM), as defined
in 10 U.S.C. 2710(e)(2); or (C) Munitions constituents (e.g., TNT, RDX), as defined in
10 U.S.C. 2710(e)(3), present in high enough concentrations to pose an explosive
hazard.
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Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC) Related
Operations
Any operations conducted by UXO Technicians/Qualified personnel with the purpose of
intentional physical contact with MEC.
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Munitions Response
Response actions, including investigation, removal actions, and remedial actions to
address the explosives safety, human health, property or environmental risks presented
by UXO, DMM, or MC, or to support a determination that no removal or remedial action
is required.
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On-The-Surface
A situation in which MEC, or RCWM, are: (a) entirely or partially exposed above the
ground surface (i.e., the top of the soil layer); or (b) entirely or partially exposed above
the surface of a water body (e.g., because of tidal activity)
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Ordnance and Explosives (OE) Safety Specialist

A USACE employee who is qualified through experience and completion of the U.S.
Army Bomb Disposal School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, or U.S. Naval EOD
School, Indian Head, Maryland ,or Eglin AFB, Florida, and is classified in the GS-0018
job series (CP-12 career series). Performs safety and occupational health support and
oversight of projects involving MEC/RCWM.
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Quality
The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability
to meet the stated or implied needs and expectations of the project. Quality
expectations need to be negotiated among the PDT members (which includes the
customer) and are set in the Project Management Plan. (ER 5-1-11). More specifically,
the quality of a response action is measured by how closely that response action meets
the standards and expectations of the customer.
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Quality Assurance (QA)
An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation,
assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or
service is of the type and quality needed to meet project requirements defined in the
PMP.
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Quality Control (QC)

The overall system of technical activities that measures the attributes and performance
of a process, item, or service against defined standards to verify that they meet the
stated requirements established in the PMP; operational techniques and activities that
are used to fulfill requirements for quality.
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Removal Action
The cleanup or removal of released hazardous substances from the environment. Such
actions may be taken in the event of the threat of release of hazardous substances into
the environment, such actions as may be necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate
the release or threat of release of hazardous substances, the disposal of removed
material, or the taking of such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize,
or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare or to the environment, which may
otherwise result from a release or threat of release. The term includes, in addition,
without being limited to, security fencing or other measures to limit access, provision of
alternative water supplies, temporary evacuation and housing of threatened individuals
not otherwise provided for, action taken under section 9604(b), and any emergency
assistance which may be provided under the Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act [42 USC 5121 et seq.] The requirements for removal actions are
addressed in 40 CFR §§300.410 and 300.415. The three types of removals are
emergency, time-critical, and non time-critical removals. (DoD Management Guidance
for the DERP)
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Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)

Military munitions that have been primed, fuzed, armed, or otherwise prepared for
action, and have been fired, dropped, launched, projected or placed in such a manner
as to constitute a hazard to operations, installation, properties (FUDS sites), personnel,
or material and remain unexploded either by malfunction, design, or any other cause
(10 U.S.C. 101(e)(5)(A) through (C)).
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Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Qualified Personnel

Personnel who meet the training requirements for UXO personnel and have performed
successfully in military EOD positions or are qualified to perform in the following service
contract act contractor positions: UXO Technician II, UXO Technician III, UXO Safety
Officer, UXO Quality Control Specialist, and Senior UXO Supervisor. Refer to DDESB
TP 18 for detailed information for approved contract titles and qualifications.
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Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technicians

Personnel who are qualified for (as defined by DoD) and filling Department of Labor,
Service Contract Act, Directory of Occupations contractor positions of UXO Technician
I, UXO Technician II and UXO Technician III. Refer to DDESB TP 18 for detailed
information for approved contract titles and qualifications.
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Venting
Exposing any internal cavities of MPPEH, to include training or practice munitions (for
example, concrete bombs), using DDESBor DoD component-approved procedures, to
confirm that an explosive hazard is not present.
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