RICHMOND
ARMY DEPOT GETS PERMIT FOR PLANT
Blue Grass Army Depot now has a permit to build a facility that will destroy
its store of chemical weapons. The Kentucky Division of Waste Management
yesterday granted a permit to build the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction
Pilot Plant.
It will use neutralization technology to destroy the nerve agent GB and related waste. The permit takes effect Oct. 30. The plant, a Defense Department project, is being built at a price of $2 billion to destroy 523 tons of chemical weapons.