The Legacy Program of Global Green USA and Green Cross hosts occasional workshops and roundtables on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC in order to facilitate public education and discussion on timely and key issues of military base closure, cleanup, and sustainable conversion. The specific goal of the July 15, 1998 Workshop is to promote public discussion of the important issue of abolition of chemical weapons stockpiles in safe and environmentally sound ways. Included in the workshop will be presentations on the sixteen major US and Russians CW stockpile sites, on the hundreds of suspected sites of buried chemical munitions and agents, on technologies of destruction, and on the US Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR or "Nunn-Lugar) Program. The CTR program annually funds destruction efforts of nuclear and chemical weapons in Russia in order to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention and the START I Treaty.

Destruction of Chemical Weapons:

An Update on U.S. and Russian Programs

 

A Global Green USA Legacy Program Workshop

Wednesday, July 15, 1998, 8AM-3PM

Capitol Hill, U.S. Senate, Dirksen 325

 

8:00 - 8:30 Registration; coffee & bagels

 

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome & Introductions

  • Matthew Petersen, Executive Director, Global Green USA
  • Dr. Paul Walker, Legacy Program Director, Global Green USA

 

8:45 - 10:00 Panel I: Incineration Technologies and Programs

  • Chair: Irene Kornelly, Colorado Office of Business Development
  • Dr. Theodore Prociv, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Chemical Demilitarization
  • James Bacon, Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization*
  • George Smith, Chairperson, Alabama Citizens' Advisory

Commission

 

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break

 

10:15 - 11:30 Panel II: Alternative Destruction Technologies and Programs

  • Chair: Prof. Robert Irvine, University of Notre Dame & SBR

Technologies

  • Michael Parker, Program Manager, Assembled Chemical

Weapons Assessment

  • Prof. Robert Beaudet, Chair, National Research Council

Alternative Tech Committee

  • Craig Williams, Executive Director, Chemical Weapons

Working Group

 

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (buffet)

 

12:30 - 13:45 Panel III: Non-stockpile Chemical Weapons Destruction

  • Chair: Ross Vincent, Colorado Citizens' Advisory Committee
  • Col. Edward Libby, Project Manager, Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel
  • Theodore Henry, University of Maryland

 

13:45 - 15:00 Panel IV: Russian CW Destruction Programs and Cooperative

Threat Reduction

  • Chair: Dr. Douglas Hindman, Co-Chair, Kentucky Citizens'

Advisory Committee

  • Maj. Gen. Thomas Kuenning, Director, Cooperative Threat

Reduction Program

  • Dr. Sergei Baranovsky, Vice President, Green Cross Russia
  • Anatoly Fominikh, Kurgan Oblast, Russia
  • Vladimir Pankratov, Penza Oblast, Russia
  • Nikolai Kozulin, Bryansk Oblast, Russia

 

 

This program, part of Global Green USA's occasional Legacy Program series on Capitol Hill, is free and open to the public. Due to limited space, please RSVP to 202-879-3181 or to Dar Rudnyckyj via e-mail by Friday, July 10th. There will be a nominal charge for food, payable at the door.

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