CARNEYS POINT -- The House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill today that will require an independent review of the plan to discharge wastewater from the destruction of VX nerve agent to the Delaware River, three South Jersey congressmen announced this morning.

Language in the Defense Department's authorization bill will require the Government Accountability Office to conduct a review of disposal plan and report by the end of the year. The Army will be prohibited from actually shipping any wastewater from its chemical weapons disposal site in Indiana until at least February 2007.

U.S. Reps. Rob Andrews, D-Haddon Heights, Frank A. LoBiondo, R-Ventnor, and Jim Saxton, R-Mount Holly, made the announcement this morning in a teleconference with reporters.