Safely Handling and Testing M55 Chemical Agent Rockets for Neutralization and Destruction Challenge Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP), located in Richmond, KY, and managed by Bechtel-Parsons Blue Grass Team (BPBGT) for the Army’s Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program, wanted to destroy more than 70,000 chemical warfare agent M55 rockets. In the fall of 2008, tests conducted at Battelle’s High Energy Research Laboratory Area (HERLA) in Columbus, OH, found that that certain chemical warfare agent munitions components in the rotor assemblies of the M55 BG rocket fuze contained explosives that could potentially remain intact after treatment, which raised a potential problem for the overall operational strategy for on-site rocket destruction. Additional

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