[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, CHEMWEAPONS: Umatilla Chemical Depot (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plans being made for chemical depot's future

Annette Cary
Tri-City Hearald/Tacoma News Tribune (WA)
September 13, 2009

HERMISTON -- Officials are ready to start showing off the Umatilla 
Chemical Depot to prospective buyers.

The last of the chemical weapons stored on the site are expected to be 
incinerated sometime between next summer and summer 2011, and the site 
already has been listed as surplus, said Umatilla County Commissioner 
Bill Hansell.

The Umatilla Army Depot Re-Use Authority, which Hansell chairs, is 
working with the Army to develop a land use, economic and environmental 
protection plan for the depot acreage. The plan will consider possible 
property available for redevelopment once weapons destruction and 
cleanup are done.

While the Army will consider selling surplus buildings and property, it 
also will consider proposals to benefit the public good. Future uses 
also could include keeping native shrub steppe habitat as wildland.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/v-printerfriendly/story/878038.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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