2 David Low Way - Attachment 6 - UXO Assessment - OPEC

                                                                         OPEC - 2 David Low Highway, Castaways Beach
                                                                                            Rev 02 – AFU – 10 Aug 2017


TERMINOLOGY, ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
DoD/ADF              Department of Defence (Australia)/Australian Defence Force
Munition             A complete device charged with explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, initiating composition,
                     or nuclear, biological or chemical material for use in military operations.
EO                   Explosive Ordnance: All munitions containing explosives or chemical agents. This includes
                     bombs and warheads; guided and ballistic missiles; artillery, mortar, rocket and small arms
                     ammunition; all mines, torpedoes, depth charges and demolition charges; pyrotechnics,
                     clusters and dispensers; cartridge and propellant actuated devices; electro‐explosive devices;
                     clandestine and improvised explosive devices; and all similar or related items or components
                     explosive in nature.
Inert munition       A munition that contains no explosive, pyrotechnic, lachrymatory, radioactive, chemical,
                     biological or other toxic components or substances.
EOD                  Explosive Ordnance Disposal: The detection, identification, field evaluation, rendering safe
                     and final disposal of unexploded ordnance. It may also include the rendering safe and/or
                     disposal of explosive ordnance, which may have become hazardous by damage or
                     deterioration.
EOW                  Explosive Ordnance Waste: Inert material associated with munitions or inert remnant
                     material from the initiation or functioning of explosive ordnance.
SAA                  Small Arms Ammunition: all ammunition less than 20mm in calibre and all gauges of shotgun
                     cartridges.
UXO                  Unexploded Ordnance: Explosive ordnance that has been primed, fused, 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 materiel but
                     remains unexploded either by malfunction, design, or any other cause. UXO includes items of
                     EO that have been removed from their original resting place for any reason, including
                     souveniring by members of the public.
AXO                  Abandoned Explosive Ordnance: Explosive ordnance that that has not been used, has been
                     left behind or dumped by a party, and which is no longer under control of the party that left it
                     behind or dumped it. Abandoned explosive ordnance may or may not have been primed,
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                     fused, armed or otherwise prepared for use (Modified CCW protocol V )
UXO                  An operation designed to determine, assess and report on all or some of the
Assessment           Following: 1. whether an area is affected by UXO; 2. the boundaries of the affected area;
Survey               3. the densities of UXO, including the locations and characteristics of impact areas, within the
                     affected area; and 4. the residual depths, types and natures of UXO and inert ordnance‐
                     related items within the affected area.
UXO                  An operation to reduce the hazards associated with UXO or other EO. UXO remediation may
Remediation          be ‘complete’ (100% area search and all EO hazards removed to the maximum projectile
                     penetration depth) or ‘partial’ (area searched and EO hazards removed to a level that is
                     acceptable to the appropriate approving authority with regard to the planned use of the land)
UXO Hazard           Partial UXO remediation – see previous item
Reduction




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    CCW - the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons; Protocol V - Explosive Remnants of War (ERW)

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