Toxic Industrial Chemical Material Exposure Guideline.docx

This document is a Toxic Industrial Chemical/Material Military Exposure Guideline that establishes performance standards for water treatment technologies. The guideline specifies target influent challenge concentrations and minimum percent reduction requirements for various contaminants across multiple classes, including inorganic arsenic (both pentavalent and trivalent forms at 0.6 mg/L with 90% reduction), inorganic cyanide (2 mg/L with 90% reduction), inorganic mercury (0.02 mg/L with 90% reduction), volatile organic compounds such as chloroform (0.3 mg/L with 95% reduction) and benzene (0.05 mg/L with 90% reduction), petroleum hydrocarbons including toluene and naphthalene, carbamate and organophosphate pesticides, herbicides such as paraquat dichloride, and radionuclides including uranium (0.3 mg/L with 90% reduction).

This guideline supports the Department of the Army Materiel Command's pre-solicitation effort to develop an Individual Water Treatment Device (IWTD) capable of removing Toxic Industrial Chemicals and Materials from indigenous fresh water sources. The guideline establishes the technical baseline against which respondents must demonstrate actual product performance for contaminant removal capabilities. Potential vendors responding to this sources sought announcement must provide documented evidence of their water treatment technology's ability to meet or exceed these exposure guidelines, with allowance for alternative technical approaches that demonstrate equivalent or superior performance in removing the specified contaminants to the mandated levels.