After years of fighting, the Army may be moving deadly nerve agents from the Blue Grass Army Depot.

The Department of Defense has given the Army the go-ahead to study moving the chemical weapons stockpile to a new location.

Madison County leaders have fought for years to keep the Army from transporting old nerve agents from the Blue Grass Army Depot.

The depot holds row upon row of nerve agents. All of it old and decaying. It sits in igloos in the middle of 700 plus acres inside the gates of the depot.

Craig Williams has worked for two decades to keep it from being moved out and onto the roads of Madison County.

"Is there a risk in that? Obviously. Is there a risk in just having this material here? Obviously. It has to be gotten rid of. The question is how do you do it in the safest and most expeditious manner."

Williams would like to see the nerve agents neutralized in a plant to be built less than a mile from the depot, but he says the army is looking for ways to cut costs.   He doesn't agree with the army opening the door to studying moving the nerve agents to another region of the country.

"This is driven by fiscal assessments. This is not driven by safety and precautions that have been guaranteed and committed to in these communities for years."

Just last week, Madison County's judge-executive Kent Clark criticized budget cuts that would delay building the plant to neutralize the nerve agents.

"We have a money situation, but when you have weapons of mass destruction sitting in the middle of a community in the heart of the United States with 75,000 people in Madison County alone...when does that warrant spending money?"

Williams says the National Guard, which was placed there after 9/11, is pulling out of the depot to be replaced by private security.

Williams admits they might have better technology to guard the depot.