The U.S. Air Force is currently evaluating a mobile, full-scale incinerator for restoration of sites contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). The field trial has been divided into three phases: (1) verification trial burn using TCDD contaminated soils, (2) TCDD surrogate trial burn employing clean soil spiked with the surrogates hexachloroethane (HCE) and 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene (TCB), and (3) a long-term operational test of 150 days to evaluate the reliability, maintainability and cost associated with the rotary-kiln incinerator. The subject of this paper, the surrogate trial burn, was conducted in May, 1987 to demonstrate the ability of the incinerator to destroy at least 99.9999 percent of the two TCDD surrogates. The surrogate trial burn shows that the ENSCO rotary-kiln incinerator is capable of removing TCDD and other related chemicals from a soil matrix in a manner protective of the environment. Future tests of this unit will include the thermal processing of 11,000 cubic yards of TCDD contaminated soil during a heavily documented field trial.