136th Year... and
still on the job!
Friday October 2, 2004
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136th Year... and
still on the job!
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Friday October 2, 2004
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Sen. Wayne Allard, who led the fight to restore funding to Pueblo's chemical-weapon destruction program, said Friday he was disappointed that the agency overseeing the program still wants to reduce the size of the facility.
On Thursday, the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternative agency said it was stopping all design work on the demil facility until a less expensive system could be developed.
The Army in January complained that the facility being planned for Pueblo would be too expensive and gutted its fiscal year 2005 budget allocation.
Allard, R-Colo., and other members of the state's delegation convinced colleagues to restore much of the money to keep the work on track, but the Army still wants it scaled down.
"I was disappointed to hear the news," Allard said. "They're going to start with the early phases of the project and that's encouraging.
"I'm still hopeful that we can go ahead and move forward and make sure it doesn't get unnecessarily held up."