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Designation:E 2318 03Standard Guide forEnvironmental Health Site Assessment Process for MilitaryDeployments1This standard is issued under the fixed designation E 2318;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon(e)indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1.Scope1.1 PurposeThe purpose of this guide is to describe ascientific methodology for conducting environmental healthsite assessments(EHSAs)for military deployments.EHSAsare prepared to evaluate potential environmental exposures thatmay impact the health of deployed personnel as directed byPresidential Review Directive 5;Chairman,Joint Chiefs ofStaff memorandum MCM-0006-02;and Department of De-fense Instruction 6490.3.This guide is intended to assist theuser in developing conceptual site models(CSMs)for deploy-ment sites.CSMs are used to define the exposure pathways.The exposure pathways assist in the evaluation of potentialhealth impacts.The goal of this guide is to identify completeand potentially complete exposure pathways that may affect thehealth of deployed personnel.1.2 This guide provides a series of steps designed to obtainsufficient information to evaluate potential environmental ex-posures that may affect the health of deployed personnel.It ismost applicable when only a limited amount of informationabout the deployment area is available.If it becomes apparentto the environmental health professional in predeploymentplanning activities that sufficient information exists to evaluatethe health significance of potential environmental exposures,itwill not be necessary to complete the data collection activitiesdescribed in this process.In this event,the environmentalhealth professional will document their justification for notcompleting the data collection activities.An obvious examplewould be deployment to a major city in a developed county.1.3 Information generated by this process will be used forenvironmental health risk assessments.Environmental healthrisk assessments are beyond the scope of this guide.1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-bility of regulatory requirements prior to use.2.Referenced Documents2.1DoD References:2Presidential Review Directive 5,Planning for Health Pre-paredness and Readjustment of the Military,Veterans,andTheir Families After Future Deployments,August 1998Department of Defense Instruction(DoDI)6490.3,Imple-mentation and Application of Joint Medical Surveillancefor Deployments,1997Office of the Chairman,The Joint Chiefs of Staff Memoran-dum MCM-0006-02,Updated Procedures for Deploy-ment Health Surveillance and Readiness,February 2002Department of the Army(DA),Risk Management,FM100-14,April 1998OPNAVINST3500.39A/MarineCorpsOrder3500.27A,Operational Risk Management,September2000Air Force Instruction 90-901,Operational Risk Manage-ment,April 2000U.S.Army Center for Health Promotion and PreventiveMedicine(USACHPPM)TG 230,Chemical ExposureGuidelines for Deployed Personnel,January 2002,up-dated April 2002U.S.Army Center for Health Promotion and PreventiveMedicine(USACHPPM)TG 236A,Basic RadiologicalDose EstimationA Field Guide(Draft,August 2001)U.S.Army Center for Health Promotion and PreventiveMedicine(USACHPPM)TG 248,Guide for DeployedPreventive Medicine Personnel on Health Risk Manage-ment,August 2001U.S.Army Center for Health Promotion and PreventiveMedicine(USACHPPM)TG 251(Draft)A SoldiersGuide to Environmental and Occupational Health FieldSampling During Military Deployment,November 2001U.S.Army Center for Health Promotion and PreventiveMedicine(USACHPPM)TG 288,Entomological Opera-tional Risk Management,September 2003Defense Intelligence Agency,Defense Intelligence Report,1This guide is under the jurisdiction ofASTM Committee E50 on EnvironmentalAssessment,Risk Management and Corrective Action and is the direct responsibil-ity of Subcommittee E50.05 on Environmental Risk Management.Current edition approved Oct.1,2003.Published December 2003.2Available from DODSSP,Building 4,Section D,700 Robbins Ave.,Philadel-phia,PA 19111-5098.1Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959,United States.DI-1816-6-99,Medical Intelligence Assessment of De-ployment Environmental Health Risks,January 1999Armed Forces Pest Management Board,Guide to Entomo-logical Surveillance During Contingency Operations,Oc-tober 2001NOTE1Other potentially useful information sources are listed inAppendix X4.3.Terminology3.1 Definitions:3.1.1 actual knowledge,nknowledge actually possessedby an individual who is a real person,rather than an entity.Actual knowledge is to be distinguished from constructiveknowledge,t