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Purpose

This regulation establishes policies and procedures for the Army Chemical Surety Program. Army chemical agents refers to Schedule 1 chemicals in Army possession as listed in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC); Non-Traditional Agents (NTA) in Army possession, as listed in the April 19, 2022 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense (ASD (NCB)) Memorandum; or Department of Defense (DoD) munitions with a chemical fill at the chemical weapons storage facilities, and their associated Army chemical weapons destruction facilities as declared by the CWC. An Army chemical agent facility is the building or series of buildings where Army chemical agents are produced, stored, used, destroyed, or transferred. Chapter 7 identifies the specific applicability of this regulation to the types of Schedule 1 chemicals.