U.S. Senate Earmarks Money for Pueblo CW Depot

The fiscal 2006 defense authorization bill passed by the Senate earlier this week included $51 million for military construction at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, the Pueblo Chieftain reported (see GSN, Sept. 29).

Colorado Senators Ken Salazar (D) and Wayne Allard (R) joined other lawmakers to introduce language appropriating the funds. The $472.2 billion bill now heads to a conference committee (John Norton, Pueblo Chieftain, Nov. 16).

Meanwhile, Defense Undersecretary Kenneth Krieg, in a Nov. 7 letter to a House Appropriations subcommittee, said more than $100 million in funds had been released for preparation of chemical weapons disposal sites at Pueblo and the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

Blue Grass received $9.8 million, while $96.4 million went to Pueblo. Another $5.6 million was designated for support of the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternative program.

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in a fiscal 2005 supplemental defense appropriations bill, had included language requiring that $100 million of $370 million previously appropriated for the ACWA program be released within 120 days of the bill’s passage, according to a Chemical Weapons Working Group release (Chemical Weapons Working Group release, Nov. 16).

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