Pentagon May Reduce Costs at Pueblo Chemical Depot by Reusing Parts From Aberdeen Proving Ground

The cost of a chemical weapons neutralization facility at the U.S. Army’s Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado could be lowered by using parts from a system whose work is finished the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, the Pueblo Chieftain reported Saturday (see GSN, May 11).

Pueblo Citizen Advisory Commission Chairman John Klomp met with Defense Department officials last week.

“One of the questions we wanted to ask was whether any of the neutralization system from Aberdeen could be reused here in Pueblo,” Klomp said Friday. “The answer was that was a possibility and it would certainly lower the final cost of the project.”

The Defense Department is also considering shifting oversight of the planned Pueblo disposal facility and another site in Kentucky to the Army, officials said last week. That possibility has led to concern because the Army has in the past supported building an incinerator at Pueblo, something many local officials and residents oppose.

“If the program ends up under the oversight of those people in the Army who have wanted to build an incinerator in the past, then it could be a problem for us,” Klomp said (Peter Roper, Pueblo Chieftain, May 14).

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