Team Mission Statement:

To protect public health and safety by providing guidance to the Army's chemical warfare materials demilitarization program through reviewing, advising, making recommendations to the Army's plans to destroy stockpile and non-stockpile materials.

Public laws 91-121 (1970), 91-441 (1971), and 99-145 (1986) required that the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provide public health review and oversight of the Department of Defense's plans and activities to test, transport, and dispose of chemical and biological weapons.