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Posted on  Sun,  Oct. 08, 2005

RICHMOND

FUNDS OK'D FOR WEAPONS DISPOSAL

A 2006 defense appropriations bill passed yesterday contains $53 million for chemical weapons destruction at Blue Grass Army Depot and the Pueblo Depot in Colorado. 

The money will be added to the $372.3 million the senators already secured for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program.

The Defense Department project is building a $2 billion facility to destroy 523 tons of chemical weapons stored at Blue Grass Army Depot.