A07_-_Industry_Day_2_Script_External_Document_FINAL.DOCX

Industry Day Script July 2019 Hello, my name is Courtney Isom and we are here to discuss the competition for the operation and maintenance of the Hawthorne Army Depot. Thank you for attending and I hope this is a very useful and informative two days for you. Please hold any questions until the end; you may ask them however they must also be submitted in writing.

(Starting from meeting location)

1. (Walk through) We will now walk to a building and take a brief tour. This building has been designated to market as an ARMS facility, meaning market our efforts towards ARMS tenants that could benefit from what this facility has to offer. This building is an administration building and contains several offices, conference rooms, restrooms and breakrooms. The building has three floors; the first floor was refurbished in 2018 and the second floor is in the process of also being refurbished, both using ARMS funding. We recently received Army approval for a blanket use agreement for office space. The blanket use agreement will allow the operating contractor to work with potential ARMS tenants and request use of the building with a faster turnaround/approval than otherwise. This process typically reduces approval time from approximately 3-6 months to 2-4 weeks.

(Talking point only) To the right you will see the HQ’s building.

2. (Talking point only) The building to the right is the old clinic which is no longer in use and is slated for demolition within the next few years.

3. (Talking point only) Directly in front of us is an administrative building which houses additional Government and contractor staff.

(Get back on the bus and head to next building

4. (Talking point only) On your right consists of the installation housing and grounds office and equipment storage. On the west side of the building is the Physical Rehabilitation Center which contains physical rehabilitation equipment and a restroom.

PARK BUS BY BLDG & EXIT

5. (Walk through) This building is an administrative building where contractor personnel reside. After walking through this building we will get back on the bus and travel to the Fire Station.

GET ON BUS AND PROCEED TOWARDS MAIN RD

6. (Talking point only) To your left you will see HWAD’s boiler house, containing two boilers which feed steam to housing and industrial area.

7. (Talking point only) The building next to this was formerly a horse barn and is currently unused and in modified caretaker status.

8. (Talking point only) The building in front of us contains multiple areas used for different services. The west end of the building is a motor repair shop for electric motors; the center section is used as the contractor’s tool room; the east end is the equipment maintenance division.

PARK BUS IN LOT NEXT TO FIRE STATION AND EXIT FOR TOUR

9. (Walk-through) There are two fire stations on HWAD, one on the industrial side and one on the operations side of the base which we will tour later today. This station has 4 bedrooms, sleeping 1 per bedroom. It contains 4 service bays and one of the last and original fire poles. The bays can hold 1 firetruck, 1 command vehicle, 2 ambulances, 2 brush trucks and one water tender at once.

We will now walk over to the Railroad Maintenance Facility.

10. (Door view/no tour) This is the Railroad Maintenance Facility. This facility can hold two locomotive engines with ample room to work on other equipment and still remain out of the elements.

11. (Door view/no tour) This building consists of the Pipe shop, welding and sheet metal fabrication

12. (Talking Point only) The building to our right is an administrative building.

13. (Walk through) This is the vehicle and heavy equipment maintenance repair shop. It contains a parts department and wash rack.

WALK TOWARDS BOPS BUILDING

14. (Talking Point Only) The building to our left is an administrative building and contains Base Operations, Engineering, Environmental and records keeping for maintenance.

(Talking Point Only) The building to our right is an administrative building which houses various departments, including IT communications.

GET BACK ON BUS AND LEAVE INDUSTRIAL AREA, HEADING TOWARDS THE WATER TREATMENT FACILITY.

15. (Talking point only) We are now driving on Schweer drive. The power line above us belongs to the government and is maintained by the contractor. At the end of the black top the road to the right goes over to a Well.

The homes you see to the left are the last remnants of Connelly Housing, these homes will be demolished later this year.

To your left by the tree line is a Well, the small brown building houses the well, which is used for dust suppression due to the high levels of Arsenic and Fluoride in the water.

The buildings at the top of the road to your right are the water treatment plants. The building farthest west is the surface water treatment plant and the other building is the ground water treatment plant. There are two tanks below the plants that hold 500,000 gallons each, allowing enough time for the water and chlorine to remain in solution together to meet the residual contact time as required by the state of Nevada for clean drinking water.

As a point of interest, 90% of our drinking water comes from surface runoff from Mt. Grant and the other 10% comes from well 11. Interesting point about that well, due to abundant geothermal activity in this part of Nevada, the water comes into that well at 128 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) and is first ran through the cooling tower to drop the temperature to 70 degrees Fahrenheit before processing and distributing. When we get to the water treatment plant you will have the opportunity to see how that water is processed.

16. (Walk-through) Water Treatment Plant: As you enter you will see the large tanks which are the water filter tanks. These tanks are fed from outside the building from the water cooling towers which get their water from well 11 as previously discussed. At this stage chemicals are added to the water to start bringing it into compliance with state standards.

Entering the next room you see the surface water tanks, these tanks are fed from the water collected from Mt. Grant as previously discussed. The tanks underneath the floor are where the surface and well water is combined with chlorine. These tanks, in conjunction with the two 500,000 gal tanks outside, ensure the required time for water/chlorine mixture per state regulations is met.

PROCEED TO BLACK BEAUTY – EXPLAIN LAYOUT OF INSTALLATION

Black Beauty Reservoir: The borders of HWAD run from the area you are able to see of Walker Lake, Mt Grant, to behind the depot property line of the north and central magazine areas. Our border also includes to the hill you can see along Highway 95 towards Las Vegas, back along the south magazine area and to the south which we are unable to see at this time. However, later in the tour as we drive to New Bomb you will have a better view of the South Magazine area.

17. Looking to the North you will see we border Walker Lake. Approximately 29 acres of this area is required to be swept for unexploded ordnance (UXO) on a quarterly basis. The building closest to the water are Western Area Demil Facility (WADF) buildings. The large cement buildings are inert storage buildings; the closest corner to us is the Property Reutilization Office (PRO). These are located in North Magazine area.

18. To your left you will see the Freedom Ranges, currently used for military training. Approximately 23 acres of this area will require quarterly sweeps for unexploded ordnance (UXO). The green area down below us is the Industrial area of the base, with the 9 hole golf course skirting the West perimeter. The road going out the main gate and going over Ryan Canyon on Thorne road separates the North and Central Magazine area. The left side of Thorne road is the Southern boundary for the North Mag. and the right side starts the North boundary of the central mag. Highway 95 is the South boundary for central mag. and the starting of the South magazines North Boundary.

BACK ON BUS, PROCEED DOWN ACCESS ROAD TO LANDFILL

19. The building to the right is a Chlorinator for the Water Treatment Plant, containing cylinders of chlorine gas, not pellets.

20. We are now entering the HWAD construction and debris landfill. Items which are not recyclable from demil operations are disposed of here as well as industrial waste is disposed of here as well. In the central magazine area, there is a PCB/asbestos landfill which is permitted through the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.

21. To your right is the property reutilization yard, known as PRO. This area is used to stage material for sale that has been demiled and certified explosive free. Government property that has been screened through real property is also staged and sold at auction. Dunnage retrieved from operations are also sold here.

22. Also to our right by PRO is an Access Control Point.

RETURN TO MAIN BASE FOR LUNCH

DEPART FROM MAIN BASE DOWN THORNE ROAD TO POST 4 TO TOUR WADF

We are currently traveling on Thorne road to our north and central magazine areas.

To your left is the Truck Inspection Lot, to the right you will see the Milvan Repair Facility.

The road to your right goes to an Access Control Point.

Although we will not see two other Posts on this tour, we did travel through them during the first industry day last August. Those posts are on Highway 95 east of town.

We are now entering the South Magazine Area through Access Control Point.

To your right in the distance is a demilitarization facility.

To our right you will see a Pad used for shipping and receiving operations.

We are now entering the Western Area Demilitarization Facility, also known as WADF. This area allows us a variety of demil methods, ranging from sawing munitions for melting, steaming and high pressure washout of explosives to disassembly and detonation by furnace.

(From here we head off to WADF where Ray Brewer will be the tour guide)

We are now entering the Western Area Demilitarization Facility, also known as WADF. This area allows us a variety of demil methods, ranging from sawing munitions for melting, steaming and high pressure washout of explosives to disassembly and detonation by furnace.

23. (Talking point only) - The building to your left is an administrative building and contains the Chem Lab, shower facility and lunch room. While potentially useful for other testing, its primary use today is determining moisture content of TNT. Half the facility is used as a break room.

24. (Talking point only) The building on your right housed the Plasma Ordnance Disposal System (PODS) and was designed and built to dispose of smokes, Cartridge Actuated Devices (CADS) and Propellant Actuated Devices (PADS). This facility is currently under partial Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) closure.

25. (Walk through) The building to your left is the Rotary Furnace (RF-9) and is designed to process small caliber munitions.

26. (Talking point only) The building to our right is the Hot Gas decontamination furnace. This furnace is used to treat trace amounts of explosive during decontamination operations.

27. (Talking point only) The building behind the Hot Gas facility is the Range Scrap processing area. This is an inert operation allowing for items to be moved through a shredder and/or sheared. Demilitarization of inert materials is normally conducted using the large crushers/shredders located here on HWAD supplied as GFE. (1,000 Capacity).

Currently there are two crushers and one shredders used in the demil of inert materials.

28. (Talking Point) The building to our left, is a melt out facility containing 8 autoclaves, 2 kettles and a belt-flaker to process explosives. This building is used for the melt-out of various munition items, i.e., projectiles, bombs and any munition item with an ogive.

29. (Talking Point) The next building you see to the left is a ready service magazine used for demilitarization support in WADF. Although these are ready service magazines, all accountability, storage and safety requirements remain the same as storage magazines.

30. (Walk through) The buildings ahead and to our right contain the sawing operation for large caliber munitions.

31. (Tour) The building to your left is used for disassembly of various munition items. The building was designed to prepare munitions to be processed in the WADF complex and has been used for various renovation jobs. This building has been designated for set-up of the D561/D562 155MM Anti-Personnel Projectile filled with sub munitions. This project is scheduled for set-up and LRIP later this spring. This will involve unloading the projectile at the building and removing the components, there is a conveyor available so items can move automatically into the bay with robotics. Robotics is used in the operation of removing the base plate and sub munitions. Once this operation has been completed and sub munitions have been secured, only then will they be moved to the open detonation facility for disposal; the empty munition body will go to the Property Reutilization Yard for sale of scrap metal. This facility has water, electric and restrooms. This facility does not have internet capability.

32. (Tour) The building to your left is a water treatment plant and hydro-pneumatic system. The plant comes under the clean water act of 1972 not Resource Conservation and Recovery Act known as RCRA, this facility is estimated at about 2,760 square feet. All waste water is treated and either used in the hydro-pneumatic system or when saturated goes to the evaporative ponds on the West side of 117-5. Believe it or not when I first heard of the ponds a long while ago I thought about fishing. Going behind the water treatment building you will see large tanks that remove suspended explosives in the water, these are used in the process of the water from 117-5, 117-6 north and south towers.

33. (Tour) The building to your left contains 4 autoclaves (APE 1401M2), these are similar to your basic household pressure cooker but on a larger scale, sort of a pressure cooker on steroids and can be utilized for steam-out of various munitions and has a 10,000 pound capacity. Some of those munitions you could possibly be anything, from underwater mines to various sizes of projectiles and bombs, but I’ll leave those methods to you. These autoclaves are used as an alternative to open burn and open detonation when it comes to demilitarization of ammunition and explosives which may enable you to recover explosive material that can be used in other operations, for example as donor material or possibly as an explosive filler in other developments when properly formulated to required specifications. It’s normally used on large items but can also be used on small items as well. That facility is currently receiving renovation of the air system and is expected to be ready for use by December 2019.

34. (Tour) The building next to it contains high-pressure pumps for the high-pressure washout of pressed ammunition. The PSIG output and temperature of this system is capable of washing out pressed explosives such as your comp A3 and A5, should also be able to run 3” through 106MM projectiles as well. This high pressure water jets can be used on all ammunition types except small munitions, the system also generates waste water so that is something to keep in mind when using this facility.

This facility had a low-pressure system that was upgraded to high pressure to help conserve water during the process. It went from using an estimated 11 to 29 GPM down to a little over 1.5 GPM, that’s a big difference when the low-pressure was at an estimated 6,000 to 9,000 PSIG and the high-pressure is estimated at 50,000 to 59,000 PSIG.

We are now leaving WADF to tour storage magazines (TAKE WALKER ROAD TO INERT GROUP)

35. (Walk through) This building houses flares and riot control items. The plot area sits next to the this group. This area is not authorized for outdoor storage.

DEPART INERT GROUP VIA SALVAGE ROAD TOUR REMAINING MAGAZINES

36. (Walk through) This building contains counter measure flares.

37. (Walk through) This is a block stow building which contains small arms and medium caliber ammunition.

EXIT NORTH MAG AND PROCEED TO CENTRAL MAG FOR REMAINING TOUR.

38. (Walk through) The building to your right is the calibration/electrical lab. This is where gauges are calibrated and radio maintenance is performed, and where the electricians are staged.

CROSS THORNE ROAD AND PROCEED TO CLINIC

39. (Talking Point) To the right you will see the Occupational Health Clinic. The Contractor maintains and operates an Occupational Health program, Industrial Hygiene (IH), and Safety program in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and Local regulations. The goal of the Occupational Health Clinical staff is to protect workers from known and emerging hazards through a detailed medical surveillance program overseen by a Medical Director. The Clinic is also responsible for supplying respirator fit testing for government personnel in accordance with current OSHA standards.

40. To your right is the Railroad Maintenance Facility. This area contains a fuel station for red diesel.

41. We are not entering the South Magazine Area via Access Control Point.

42. (Walk through) To your left is the second fire station on the installation. This facility contains two bays, services fire extinguishers and contains the hazmat response storage.

43. To your right is the mag garage, used for maintenance of heavy equipment, forklifts and other large vehicles and equipment.

GATHER ON BUS AND PROCEED TO VIEW ARMS BUILDING/ROLL-UP DOOR.

44. (Talking Point) This building is rented to one of HWAD’s ARMS tenant for munition storage. The roll-up door you see was cut into the building in order to get larger rocket motors into storage.

45. We are now driving through the Mercury storage buildings utilized by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). DLA is a tenant activity at HWAD and currently utilizes 15 warehouses, two administrative buildings, one garage and one magazine for storage. Fourteen of these buildings house mercury, whereas the other facilities contain other materials being stored for DLA. The 14 mercury storage buildings have CO2 fire suppression systems. This compound also contains a Mercury Transfer Station where the mercury is being repackaged from 76 lbs flasks to 1 ton metric containers. The contractor provides service and maintenance on the facilities.

46. (Talking point) In front of us is the Railroad Classification Yard. It contains a secure fence surrounding the entire area, bonded railroad track, lightning protection system.

47. (Tour) We will now tour a shipping and receiving loading Dock. This building is 12,000 SF, containing both rail and truck/trailer access. It contains bonded railroad track and lightning protection.

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PROCEED TO NEW BOMB

49. Open Burn (OB) – One area we will not be visiting today as it was previously toured during a previous industry day is the Open Burn Site, also known as Old Bomb. This operation by permit allows for open burn of emergency demil and/or demil of propellant derived from end items disassembled at maintenance lines. A typical emergency is the degradation of propellant resulting in a low stabilizer. Government QASAS personnel monitor the propellant stockpile on HWAD for stability and determine emergency demil processing a request for emergency demil through contracting. Emergency demil generally consists of small quantities with an average occurrence of 3 to 4 time a year. The mini magazine(s) present belongs to the current operating contractor.

50. The small building you see to the right is the operating facility for the OB operation. It has generator power and no water. Porta johns are used as restrooms with the existing porta johns rented by the current operating contractor.

As you enter the pit area look up to your right and left. On top of each hill are lookout locations to observe the burns.

ENTER NEW BOMB OPEN DETONATION SITE

Open Detonation (OD) – Commonly referred to as New Bomb. This operation is used daily at HWAD. There are 20 pits with a Net Explosive Weight (NEW) authorization of 40,000 pounds per day except for STATE holidays. The NEW authorization of 40,000 pounds may be split up in whatever manner results in maximum mission accomplishment. The contractor is responsible for acquiring donner demo materials to conduct such demilitarization. It is a government expectation that the New Bomb demil limit of 40,000 pounds be maximized to the fullest extent possible.

The current operating contractor relies solely on non-electric detonations however electric detonation is an option if you so desire.

As you enter the admin area or where the building are; this is the admin area and where personnel, equipment and any excess supplies are kept, This area is serviced with electric but has no running water or internet service. Like with the Old Bomb porta johns are used and those present are the property of the current operating contractor. Water is trucked in for use. Equipment, dunnage, empty containers, etc. is not authorized beyond this point.

As you enter into the pit are stop at the prep area for a minute. This area is used to prepare non-electric ignition trains and to store small quantities of explosives in the mini magazines seen under the shelter. The two mini magazines seen in the shelter belong to the current operating contractor and are not owned by the Government. These mini-magazines are portable explosive storage magazines that are DDESB approved.

As you enter the pit area look up to your right and point out to the attendees the weather station. Detonations have environmental limitations such as wind speed, cloud cover, visibility, etc.. The weather station you’re looking at helps identify pre detonation requirements preventing a possible catastrophic event.

51. The existing DDESB site Plan approval requires earth cover over each shot. Along with any environmental permitting you will be expected to comply with the DDESB Explosive Safety site Plan (ESSP) of justify to the government staff any deviations and make immediate appropriate changes to the ESSP.

52. Open Detonation (OD) – Commonly referred to as New Bomb. This operation is used daily at HWAD. There are 20 pits with a Net Explosive Weight (NEW) authorization of 40,000 pounds per day except for STATE holidays. The NEW authorization of 40,000 pounds may be split up in whatever manner results in maximum mission accomplishment. The contractor is responsible for acquiring donner demo materials to conduct such demilitarization. It is a government expectation that the New Bomb demil limit of 40,000 pounds be maximized to the fullest extent possible.

53. (Entering the admin area) We are now at the admin area where personnel, equipment and any excess supplies are kept; this area is serviced with electric but has no running water or internet service. Like with the Old Bomb, porta johns are used and those present are the property of the current operating contractor. Water is trucked in for use. Equipment, dunnage, empty containers, etc. is not authorized beyond this point.

54. As we enter into the pit we will stop at the prep area for a minute. This area is used to prepare non-electric ignition trains and to store small quantities of explosives in the mini magazines seen under the shelter. The two mini magazines seen in the shelter belong to the current operating contractor.

55. (look to the left and point out the camera system on the top of the hill) The camera and monitors in the admin area are APE and belong to the government.

56. Based on restrictions in the RCRA and Class II Air Operating environmental permit, certain conditions such as wind speed, cloud cover and visibility must be closely monitored to ensure all requirements are met prior to detonation. The weather station is used to identify such requirements to ensure compliance is met prior to authorization to detonate. In addition to environmental permit requirements, the contractor will also be required to comply with the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board (DDESB) Explosive Safety Site Plans (ESSP). Any deviation from requirements must be justified to the HWAD Government staff and properly modified prior to implementing any changes.

57. Mini Magazines on Old, and New Bomb, and New bomb Test range sites - statement as follows:

· The mini-magazines on-site are the property of the current operator, and NOT owned by the Government. These mini-magazines are portable explosive storage magazines and are approved by DDESB.

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