[CPEO-MEF] New Jersey hydrolysate disposal questioned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawmaker asks review of Army plan to dispose of nerve agent in Jersey

BY RICK CALLAHAN
Associated Press
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
April 27, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS -- A New Jersey congressman said yesterday he would ask the 
General Accounting Office to review an Army report that concludes it 
would be cheaper and quicker to dispose of a nerve agent residue in New 
Jersey rather than treating it onsite in Indiana.

Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1st Dist.) said the Army's conclusions in a 
cost-benefit analysis released Tues day are not supported by the facts 
and are "so flimsy as to be meaningless."

The Army's report concludes it could take nearly five years longer -- 
and cost up to $347 million more -- if a caustic wastewater created by 
the VX nerve agent's destruc tion were disposed of in western Indiana, 
instead of trucked to a Du Pont Co. plant in New Jersey.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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