Six U.S. Army Depots Expected to Meet Chemical Weapons Destruction 2012 Deadline

The Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon and five other U.S. Army facilities are on track to meet a 2012 international treaty deadline for destroying U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles, the East Oregonian reported Friday (see GSN, July 22).

The Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Utah, for example, has completed destruction of its sarin and VX stockpiles, while Pine Bluff, Ark., is incinerating weapons at a “rate that’s really extraordinary,” said Dale Ormond, a deputy assistant secretary of the Army.

Chemical weapons neutralization facilities have yet to be built at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky and the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. It is less likely that those two sites will meet the deadline, Ormond said (Hal McCune, East Oregonian, July 22).

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