On October 20, 1917, the United States Army's oldest active testing ground was established in Aberdeen, Maryland. Chemical weapons were developed on these grounds and the US military used the Aberdeen Proving Ground to develop, test, store and dispose of chemical weapons. Three chemical engineers named Carl Gepp, William Dee and Robert Lentz, who held high-level management positions at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, would eventually become notorious as the Aberdeen Three. In 1976, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act was passed. This act is one of the primary federal laws in the United States that governs the disposal of solid and hazardous waste. The law also creates criminal liability for anyone who knowingly handles hazardous waste without a RCRA permit. The Aberdeen Proving Grounds have complied with RCRA regulations and have obtained a permit for the management of hazardous waste at the proving grounds; however, only three separate areas in Aberdeen were designated for hazardous waste storage under this permit, and it did not authorize the storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous waste at the pilot plant or at the The former pilot plant where the three engineers worked. In 1982 Aberdeen announced a regulation called APG 200-2. The procedure was simple. Managers were required to report all waste considered toxic, carcinogenic, caustic, flammable or reactive and were required to complete a form known as a hard card. Once the physical map was received, designated organizations in Aberdeen were responsible for transporting hazardous waste to authorized storage areas. The APG 200-2 regulation was both precise and extremely thorough. A standard operating procedure was published in 1982 and reissued in 1984 as CRDCR 710-1....... middle of paper ...... were reprimanded by the engineers association and saw their engineering licenses revoked. evaluation, the three engineers made the unethical decision to ignore the proper handling, regulations and procedures of the hazardous waste they were working with, thereby endangering the well-being of the environment, the public and colleagues and should therefore be held accountable and criminally liable for their negligence under the Resource Conservation Recovery Act. Works Cited “Roofing Calculator – Estimate Your Roofing Costs”. Roofing calculator. (nd) Accessed February 3, 2014 at http://www.roofcalc.org Bilodeau L. and Podger, J. (June 2012). Change. Sustainability Initiatives at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. Retrieved February 3, 2014 from http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/sustainability/__shared/assets/shift201231467.pdf