Construction of alternative plant has
started in Maryland, but funding is slow
(Excerpted from the May 2000 issue of the CWWG newsletter "Common Sense")
Permits for the non-incineration chemical weapons destruction facility at the Aberdeen Proving Ground were granted without public opposition or hostility in February 1999. The contractor's administration building has been built and the footers have been poured for the disposal building. But, construction of the neutralization and bio-remediation facility is going at a snail's pace, according to Maryland CWWG member John Nunn."We are looking at a delay of at least 10 months because
the Army is putting money budgeted for chem demil into its incineration
program where there has been a big schedule slippage," he
said. Nunn commented further that, "When Gloria Patton (the
Army's acting chemical demilitarization chief) comes to talk to
the CAC (Citizens Advisory Commisssion) in June we plan to ask
her, 'Where's the money?' We are anxious to get the disposal
process started."
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