MCO 8020.13 governs oversight, review, and verification of explosives safety aspects in response actions involving military munitions.
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MCO 8020.13 addresses response action plans, military munitions and unexploded ordnance, real property, and explosives safety submissions. It requires approved plans or appropriate documentation, oversight, verification, and indefinite maintenance of certain emergency response records.
Applies to: This policy applies to Navy and Marine Corps response actions involving military munitions, including unexploded ordnance (UXO).
All response actions involving real property known or suspected to contain military munitions, including UXO, shall have approved plans and/or appropriate documentation in accordance with paragraph 6. (paragraph 5)
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)/Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) or their designated agents shall provide oversight of the implementation of response actions involving military munitions and, upon completion of these response actions, verify that appropriate explosives safety actions have been properly completed consistent with the reasonably anticipated reuse of the property. (paragraph 6)
Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) means military munitions that have been primed, fuzed, armed, or otherwise prepared for action, and have been fired, dropped, launched, projected, or placed in such a manner as to constitute a hazard to operations, installation personnel, or material and remain unexploded either by malfunction, design, or any other cause, reference (f). (paragraph 4)
Military munitions do not include wholly inert items, improvised explosive devices, and nuclear weapons, nuclear devices, and nuclear components thereof. (paragraph 4)
Coordinate all issues, plans and reports for response actions involving military munitions with DC I&L prior to approving and forwarding to DDESB. Coordination will ensure that explosives safety, land use, remediation, and other relevant issues are addressed. (paragraph 6)