New DOD Policy Endorses Lower Funding Priority for Certain Chem Demil Sites

By Suzanne Yohannan / January 11, 2005 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- A new Defense Department policy appears to place a lower funding priority on the facilities that are under development to destroy assembled chemical weapons through neutralization methods as compared to chemical weapons demilitarization facilities that generally rely on incineration. The policy comes as a national citizen's coalition is planning to release documents tomorrow that it says show DOD will severely cut funding for the assembled weapons neutralization program. And despite a 2012 international treaty deadline for...

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