Defense Environment Alert -- Environmentalists are criticizing a decision by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission to order a study of the practicality of eventually converting a chemical weapons incinerator in Utah into a conventional munitions incineration facility, rather than simply closing the plant down in the 2005 round of base closures as DOD had recommended. The BRAC Commission voted Aug. 24 to close only the Deseret Chemical Depot, Tooele, UT, if the study shows that converting the Tooele Chemical...
