Price Tag for Chemical Weapons Neutralization Plant in Colorado Rises to $2.6 Billion

A $1 billion cost increase is behind the delay in plans to build a facility to neutralize chemical weapons stored at the U.S. Army’s Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Feb. 15).

U.S. Representative John Salazar (D-Colo.) asked Patrick Wakefield, deputy assistant to the defense secretary for chemical demilitarization and threat reduction, to attend a town meeting yesterday in Pueblo to discuss the Defense Department’s position.

Wakefield said the anticipated cost of the plant has increased from $1.6 billion to $2.6 billion. A report on alternatives to the plan is expected by April, he said (Associated Press/KCTV5.com, Feb. 24).

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