Cease Fire Library

Permits: Department of Defense, Commercial & NASA

ATK Launch System RCRA permit Module energetic wastes 2016 (UT)
Alliant Techsystems Operations Rocket Center RCRA Permit 2015 (WV)
Alliant Techsystems Permit to Operate Open Burning Grounds 2015 (WV)
Alliant Techsystems Permit RCRA Part A and B Application 2017 (MN)
Andersen Air Force Base Guam OB OD Permit 2015 (GU)
Andersen Air Force Base Title V Air Permit Statement of Basis 2010 (GU)
Andersen Air Force Base Title V Air Permit 2010 (GU)
Anderson Air Force Base Guam OB OD DRAFT Permit 2021 (GU)
Anniston Army Depot HWP 2007 updated 2011 (AL)
Blue Grass Army Depot – Detonations Resume Notice 2016
Bluegrass-RCRA-Part-A-renewal-2015-memo (KY)
Bluegrass Army Depot RCRA Permit Mod Request 2014 (KY)
Bluegrass Army Depot Title V Permit Renewal Application 2010 (KY)
NEW! Blue Grass Army Depot Public Notice OBOD Permit Mod 2018 (KY) 
Bluegrass Army Depot OBOD Final Permit Nov 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot OB OD Response to Public CSWAB Comments Nov 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot OB OD Mod Signed Dec 2018
Cape Canaveral AF Station OB OD permit 3-13-15 (FL)
Chemring formerly Martin Elec OB OD permit 11-27-07 (FL)
Chemring Ordnance RCRA Part B Permit Application 2016 (FL)
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station Permit 11-16-2010
(CA)
Colfax Clean Harbors 2007 permit from EPA website (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors Draft Modified Haz Waste Permit 2015 (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors Class 3 Permit Mod Request NOD #2 2015 (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors Non-Compliance & Inspection Report 2016 (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors RCRA Subtitle C Site ID Form 2014 (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors Stormwater Draft Permit 7923911 from LDEQ website (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors Warning Letter DEQ June 2017 (LA)
Colfax Clean Harbors Violations Compliance Order November 2018 (LA)
Colfax Louisiana DEQ Response to Public & Cease Fire Comments May 2019
Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center Title V Permit (IN)
Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center RCRA permit 2013 (IN)
Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center RCRA Exhibits & Tables 68119287 (IN)
Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center RCRA permit List of Attachments 2013 (IN)
Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center RCRA Part A application revised 2013 (IN)
Crane Permit Modifcation OB OD Incineration SPAM August 2018
Crane Title V permit amendment 2015 80189254 (IN)
Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center OB OD Fact Sheet 2016 (VA)
Daicel Safety Systems EPA Comments on Haz Waste Permit Mod Sept 2017 (KY)
Daicel Safety Systems EPA Questions Haz Waste Permit Jan 2018 (KY)
Daicel Safety Technologies America Kentucky Permit S-16-038 Final (KY)
Daicel Safety Technologies America EPA RCRA Info Search Results (KY)
Day and Zimmerman Kansas Permit (KS)
Dugway Proving Ground RCRA Part B Vol 1 1993 (UT)
Dugway Proving Ground RCRA Permit Module Energetic Wastes 2012 (UT)
Edwards Air Force Base Appendix 12_Waste Analysis Plan_Agency Final-NOD2 (CA)
Edwards Air Force Base RCRA Permit Renewal_Vol II HWSF_Agency Final-NOD2
Edwards Air Force Base APPLICATION Part B EOD Range (CA)
Eglin Air Force Base A Part B Subpart X OB_OD permit 1995 (FL)
Eglin Air Force Base OB_OD application 2001 (FL)
Eglin Air Force Base 2001 Storage and Thermal Treatment of Haz Waste (FL)
Eglin Air Force Base Contingency Plan files 2003
Eglin Air Force Base Final Permit Receipt March 2016 (FL)
Eglin Air Force Base Notated Pages from RCRA Part B re allowable wastes June 2016 (FL)
Eglin AFB League of Women Voters of Pensacola Bay Area Comments Health Risks OB OD Feb 2020 (FL)
NEW! Eglin Air Force Base Haz Waste Permit renewal cover letter March 2020
NEW! Eglin Air Force Base Haz Waste Operating Permit OB OD Renewal Application Documents 2020 (large file)

Fort McCoy EPA RCRA Permit Mod Basis June 2018
Fort Polk Hazardous Waste Operating Permit (LA)
Fort Polk Metals Pesticides Background Study 1998 (LA)
Fort Polk Metals Pesticides Background Study Tables 1998 (LA)
Hawaii Ordance Reef RCRA permit UXO Demil on Barge July 2011 (HI)
Hawthorne Army Depot Permit Dec 2015 Rev 1 (NV)
Hawthorne Army Depot Permit Dec 2015 Rev 1_Volume 1 (NV)
Hawthorne Army Depot RCRA Permit 2013 (NV)
Hawthorne RCRA Permit Renewal Fact Sheet (NV)
Hawthorne Army Depot RCRA Haz Waste Permit Sept 2017 (NV)
Holloman Air Force Base 32SWMU Table B 2017 (NM)
Holloman Air Force Base Open Detonation Permit Renewal Notice 2006 (NM)
Holloman Air Force Base Permit Renewal Application 2015 (NM)
Holston Army Ammunition Plant (TN) – see Site-Specific Environmental Reports below
Indian Head NSWC Hazardous Wastes Sites 1982 (MD)
Indian Head NSWC Ordnance Disposal Study 1983 (MD) – note large file
Indian Head NSWC RCRA Application Additional Volumes Viton Teflon 1996 (MD)
Indian Head NSWC RCRA Part B Part Application 1998 (MD)
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Permit 2001 (IA)
Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Title V Permit 2012 (IA)
Kilgore Flares Co. Part B Applications 2015 (TN)
Kilgore Flares Request Temporary Open Burn Increase 14 Feb 2017 (TN)
Kilgore Flares TDEQ Authorization Temp Burn Increase 24 Feb 2017 (TN)
Kirtland Air Force Base Letter Re Closure of OB Unit 2010 (NM)
Kirtland Air Force Base Letter Withdrawing Renewal of OD Unit 2010 (NM)
Lake City Missouri RCRA HW Incinerator 5 May 2017 final (MO)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Final RCRA Permit 2016 (CA)
Letterkenny Army Depot OB OD Overview to NAS Dec 2017 (PA)
Letterkenny Army Depot NPDES permit OB OD grounds (PA)
Letterkenny Army Depot RCRA Part B Permit 2014 (PA)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Attachment J January 2017 (NM)
Los Alamos National Laboratory 2017 Hazardous Waste Permit (NM)
Marpi Point Explosives Detonation Admin Order (CNMI)
McAlester Army RCRA Permit w Table of Contents 2013 (OK)
McAlester Army RCRA Permit Waste Analysis Section 2013 (OK)
McAlester Army RCRA Permit Deactivation Furnace Section 2013 (OK)
McAlester Army RCRA Permit OB OD Section 2013 (OK)
Milan Army Ammunition Plant RCRA Subpart X OB OD Unit Permit 2012 (TN)
Milan Army Ammunition Plant Title V with OB OD limits 2016 (TN)
Milan Army Ammunition Plant Violations Haz Waste Management 2013 (TN)
Milan Army Ammunition Plant Actual Emissions Report TN 2016
Milan Army Ammunition Plant Final Air Quality Permit TN Oct 2016
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility Permit 2012 (VA)
NASA Wallops Flight Facility Open Burning Fact Sheet (VA)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops OB OD Permit Modification 2013 (VA)
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Letter Re Part B Permit Renewal 2017 (CA)
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Monitoring Plan OB OD Facility 2017 (CA)
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Part A-Permit Application Dec 2016 (CA)
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay 2015 BR Search Results (GA)
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay draft permit 2002 (GA)
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay RCRA Info Search Results (GA)
Pacific Scientific RCRA Application (Part A) 2016 (CA)
Pacific Scientific RCRA-Haz-Waste Facility Application 2016 (Part B) 1 (CA)
Pacific Scientific RCRA-Haz-Waste Facility Application 2016 (Part B) 2 (CA)
Pacific Scientific RCRA-Haz-Waste Facility Application 2016 (Part B) 3 (CA)
Pacific Scientific RCRA-Haz-Waste Facility Application 2016 (Part B) 4 (CA)
Radford AAP Corrective Action Permit Application 2015 (VA)
Radford AAP Open Burning 2013 Permit (VA)
Radford DU Informational Sheet FINAL May 2016
Radford Arsenal Screening Levels Ecological Risk Assessment 2005 (VA)
Radford Army Ammunition Plant Open Burning Ground 2005 Permit with Class 1 Modification 23 May 2019
Radford Army Ammunition Plant ATSDR Health Consultation Final 2015
Radford Final PFAS QAPP Report Addendum January 2021
Red River Army Depot Hazardous Waste Permit 2012 (TX)
Redstone U.S. Army Garrison 2015 Emergency Permit OB OD (AL)
Redstone U.S. Army Garrison 2016 Emergency Permit Application (AL)
Redstone U.S. Army Garrison OB OD 2010-20 final permit (AL)
St. Marks Powder OB OD permit 2-6-12 (FL)
Sandia National Laboratories Permit Final Order 2014 (NM)
Sandia National Laboratories Part 5 Hazardous Waste Facility Permit 2015 (NM)
Sierra Army Depot OB OD Closure Documentation (CA)
Sierra Army Depot Notice of Settlement Agreement 2002 (CA)
Tooele Army Depot Permit Attachment 6 OB OD Static Fire (UT)
Tooele Army Depot Notice of Emergency Hazardous Waste Permit 2014 (UT)
Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant Alliant Techsystems RCRA closure Site F (MN)
Utah Test and Training Range (Hill Air Force Base) RCRA Energetic Wastes 2013 (UT)
Utah Test and Training Range (Hill Air Force Base) Title V Compliance Report 2015 (UT)
Vandenberg Air Force Base Hazardous Waste Permit 2008 (CA)
Yuma Proving Ground Draft Hazardous Waste Permit 2017 (AZ)
Yuma Proving Ground Fact Sheet on Draft Permit Hazardous Waste OB OD 2017 (AZ)
Yuma Proving Ground RCRA Permit Renewal Application April 2017 (AZ)
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Publications/Testimony

Camp Minden: EPA Letter Confirming Dismantling Required Jan 2017
Camp Minden: Parish Resolution Opposing Permanent Incinerator 2016

CEASE FIRE brochure 11 Oct 2017
CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Alternatives to Burning April 2016
NEW!
CEASE FIRE National Academies Alternative Technology Criteria 2017
CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Alternative Technologies Vendor Contact Sheet 2017
NEW! CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Alternative Technologies Approved Deployed Sites 2017
Cese al fuego: Alternativas a la quema 2016
CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Active OB OD Sites US and Territories 2017
CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Stockpile Sites OB OD Capacity 2017
CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Federal Facilities with RDX Contamination Apr 2017
CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Health Effects of Burning Emissions 2016
NEW! CEASE FIRE Fact Sheet: Upcoming OB/OD permit renewals 2018-2020
Colfax CEASE FIRE Campaign Comments Opposing All Burning July 2018
Colfax Clean Harbor Alternatives to OB/OD Energetic Waste 18 April 2017
EPA Memo Management Waste Fireworks, Auto Airbag Explosives July 2017
EPA Memo Prohibiting OB OD of Solvents 1988
EPA Region IV Memo to End OB OD 1991
GAIA Fact Sheet: Gasification, Pyrolysis and Plasma Incineration
Lawrence Livermore EA Public Comment CEASE FIRE Campaign Dec 2017
Lawrence Livermore CSWAB Cease Fire Campaign Public Comment August 2018
Letterkenny Arsenal OB OD permit mod August 2018
Military Pollution: The Protection Paradox by Frances Dunham 2017
NEW! Reserve Officers Association Letter to Army Secretary Burn Pits March 2019
United Nations Statement Vidas Viequenses Valen English 20 June 2016

References

40 CFR 265.382 – Open burning; waste explosives
Agency Decision Prohibition of OB/OD by Comptroller General Laidlaw 1996
Agent Orange Dioxin Veteran Exposure Guam White Paper May 2020
Army Memo Alternatives Open Burning Munitions 1 Nov 2018
Army-Wide Consolidation of OB OD 1996
Buried Detonations Increase Hydraulic Conductivity Scientific Paper 2013
CEASE FIRE References for webpage 2015
Cleanup Costs Not Reported OB OD Munitions Disposal GAO-02-117
Demil Alternatives to OB OD Army 1990
Dept of Labor Judgement re Burn Pits and Lung Disease 11 Jan 2018
NEW! EPA Final Report on Alternatives to Open Burning Detonation Dec 2019
EPA Memo Prohibiting OB OD solvents highlighted 1988
NEW! Emissions Static Detonation Chamber vs MPF Bluegrass Army 2019
Distribution and Fate of Explosive and Propellants in soil 2012 Pichtel
Military Hazardous Waste Sickens Land and People Truthout August 2011
Munitions Life Cycle Destruction Swedish Paper 2009
NDAA Conference Report 2017 Munitions Demil Section
Picatinny DU in Soils at OBG Groundwater Assessment Report 2003 Reduced File Size
Potential Applicability of Chem Weapon Demil Technologies to Munitions EPA 2000
Vieques Prepublication Letter for Co-Signature to EPA Admin Reg 2 April 2019
Presentation on Supercritical Water Oxidation 2016
Production of Dioxins and Furans from Open Burning Propellants 2011
Prohibited OB OD Wastes Incendiaries Smoke Phosphorus Depleted Uranium EPA 2012
Radford Drone Study Interagency Agreement EPA and DOD July 2015
RDX Fate and Transport Processes Scientific Paper 2017
Table Examples OB OD Annual Thresholds Aug 2016
Tables on Subsurface Contaminants at Army and Other Facilities
Upper Cape Cancer Incidence Study Massachusetts 1991
United Nations Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste 2017
Vieques: U.S. Navy Bombing and Infant Health 2016

Site-Specific Environmental Reports

Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Puerto Rico RCRA Part B permit, Volume 1, 1993
Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Puerto Rico RCRA Overview 2002
Blue Grass Army Depot OBOD RCRA Application with Part M Feb 2018 (large file)
Blue Grass Army Depot Fig E-2b OB Area and Wells June 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot Figure E-2a OD Area and Wells June 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot OBOD Draft permit Kentucky DEP July 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot OBOD Fact Sheet Kentucky July 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot OBOD Public Notice Kentucky DEP July 2018
Blue Grass Army Depot Open Detonation Hazardous Waste Continues June 2020
Colfax Clean Harbors Intent to Deny Support Documents 2020
Culebra and Vieques Islands Report to Congress NPL 2005

Culebra Island Puerto Rico Formerly Used Defense Site Action Memo 2006

Culebra Puerto Rico Draft Final Military Munitions Response 2012
Culebra Puerto Rico Environmental Baseline Survey Munitions Response 2012

Culebra Puerto Rico Time Critical Removal Action 2016
Culebra Puerto Rico Non-Time Critical Removal Action Fact Sheet 2017

Eglin Air Force Base OB OD Human Health Risk Assessment Florida 20 February 2019
NEW! Eglin AFB League of Women Voters of Pensacola Bay Area Comments Health Risks OB OD Feb 2020
Holston Non-Thermal Alternative to Open Burning Hallett to BAE Jan 2018 (TN)
Holston Application for Significant Production Increase May 2018 (TN)
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Mod 1 (A-1009) 2015 (TN)
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Report Aug 2015 PCB Inspection (TN)
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Title 5 Operating Permit 2009 (TN)
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Redacted Report on Safer Alternatives 2012 (TN)
Holston Army Response to Comments Burn Pans State of Tennessee April 2011 (TN)
Holston Army Comments on Draft Title V Air Permit TDEQ February 2018 (TN)
Holston Army Permit Mod Approval Burn Pans Dec 2015_mercury (TN)
Holston Corrective Action Fact Sheet 9-26-12 (TN)
Holston Corrective Action Public Notice 9-26-12 (TN)
Holston FY 2014 Groundwater report compressed (TN)
Holston Final EA Signed April 2018 (TN)
Holston List of Items Open Burned Volunteers for EHJ Nov 2017 (TN)
Holston Nitric Sulphuric Acid Concentrators Signed EA Feb 2016 (TN)
Holston OBOD Permit TNHW-148 w response to comments 2011 (TN)
Holston Open Burn Certification Deferral to Milan AAP with enclosures 2017 (TN)
Holston RCRA Subpart X Open Burn Permit undated (TN)
Holston RCRA Subpart X Open Burn Permit Signature Page 2011 (TN)
Holston SWMU and Wells Production Area B Map 2008 (TN)
Holston SWMU Maps Part 1 Compressed (TN)
Holston SWMU Maps Part 2 Compressed (TN)
Holston SWMU Statement of Basis TDEQ 2012 (TN)
Holston Title V Air permit June 2018
Holston Title V Permit Area B Addendum Summary of Comments 2016 (TN) – big file
Holston Title V Permit Area B Renewal Statement of Basis 2017 (TN)
Holston Title V Permit Area A EPA Comments 2017 (TN)
Holston Title V Permit Area B EPA Comments 2017 (TN)
Holston Title V Renewal Application – Section 16 OB (TN)
Holston Projected Air Emissions Exceedances VOCs Greenhouse Gases May 2018
Holston EPA comments on BAE PSD application 6 Aug 2018
Holston BAE Air Emissions Coating Operations August 2018
Holston Preliminary Determination Potential to Exceed 100 Tons 16 August 2018
Holston CSWAB Citizen Petition Region 4 PFAS July 2019
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Phase 1 Evaluation Open Burn Final March 2019
Holston Army Environmental Assessment Thermal Treatment Facility Final March 2020
Holston Army Ammunition Plant Thermal Non-thermal Alternatives Phase 2 Open Burning April 2019
Holston Army Hazardous Waste Renewal Application TNHW 148 October 2020
NEW! Holston Army Final Title V Permit Reissuance PFAS Burning Allowed TDEC EPA 1 Feb 2021

Letterkenny Hexavalent Cr and Cd Alternatives Implementation Plan Final undated (PA)
Radford Army Ammunition Plant Analysis Alternatives to Open Burning
Radford Characterization OB Air Emissions Drone Study 2017 (VA)
Vieques and Culebra Islands An Analysis of Cleanup Status and Costs CRS Report 2005
Vieques Depleted Uranium Memo Survey Work January 2000 (PR)
Vieques Depleted Uranium Nuclear Regulatory Commission Comments March 2000 (PR)
Vieques Depleted Uranium Work Plan August 2000 (PR)
Vieques Depleted Uranium Work Plan Revision May 2000 (PR)
Vieques Puerto Rico Site Management Plan FY2018 Final (PR)
Vieques La Marina Elige Restricciones De Uso, No Restauración July 2018 (PR)
Vieques Navy Chooses Land Use Restrictions Over Cleanup July 2018 (PR)

 

Voices for CSWAB

“The strength and continued success of CSWAB are found in its commitment to empower stakeholders and tribal members in decisions that affect their community, their quality of life, and their environmental health.”

Crystel Anders
Former Executive Director, Community Shares of Wisconsin