136th Year... and
still on the job!
Sunday April 25, 2004
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136th Year... and
still on the job!
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Sunday April 25, 2004
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Puebloans will have a chance to quiz one of the Army's chemical demilitarization officials Wednesday on why the local project has had its funding cut and its contractor ordered to come up with a cheaper process.
Pat Wakefield, deputy assistant to the defense secretary for chemical demilitarization and counterproliferation, is scheduled to attend the 6 p.m. meeting of the chem demil program's Citizens Advisory Commission.
The commission members were shocked in February when the Pentagon's budget request for fiscal 2005 listed only $4.9 million for the Pueblo work when the program was supposed to get almost $152 million in funding.
It was especially upsetting because the Army had originally told Bechtel, the prime contractor, it wanted an accelerated schedule for national security reasons.
The flap has drawn the attention of Colorado's congressional delegation. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., has asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold a hearing on why the program is being delayed and underfunded.
The meeting will be at the Pueblo Convention Center.