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U.S. Army Announces More Delays at Indiana Chemical Weapons Destruction Site
The U.S. Army announced yesterday that it will not begin neutralizing VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana in January as planned. The start date has been pushed back indefinitely (see GSN, Nov. 11).
In August, Army officials delayed the start of the chemical weapons disposal from October to January. That startup schedule has been hindered by local officials and activists with environmental concerns, according to the Indiana Tribune Star.
The Army said the January target date was contingent on the disposal of a neutralization byproduct — called hydrolysate — by a Ohio subcontractor. The company lost the Army contract after local officials blocked a plan to dump the treated hydrolysate in the local sewage system.
Army Col. Jesse Barber, project manager for the Alternative Technologies and Approaches program at the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, said in October that he would “lay out how I get from point A to point B in November.” Barber does not currently have a plan in place, however, according to Army spokeswoman Terry Arthur (Patricia Pastore, Indiana Tribune-Star, Nov. 14).
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