McConnell Secures Funding for CW Disposal Sites

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell has secured additional funding to ensure that preparatory construction begins next year on chemical weapons disposal sites in Kentucky and Colorado, the Chemical Weapons Working Group said yesterday (see GSN, June 20).

McConnell (R-Ky.) earmarked $53 million in the fiscal 2006 defense budget for early work at the Blue Grass Chemical Depot in Kentucky and Colorado’s Pueblo Chemical Depot. 

“This fiscal year, DOD requested $33 million of the wrong kind of money. My provision provides $53 million of money which can be used for construction purposes. These monies should put us on a path to begin preliminary construction next year,” the release quotes McConnell as saying (Chemical Weapons Working Group release, July 20).

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