[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, REUSE: Future of the Anniston [AL] Chemical Agent Disposal Facility

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Burning question: Army, Chamber say Senate reuse study doesn't signal 
continued incinerator use

by John Fleming
Anniston Star (AL)
October 11, 2009

A Senate subcommittee's study into the reuse of the Anniston Chemical 
Agent Disposal Facility at the Anniston Army Depot is stirring fears in 
some quarters that chemical weapons as well as other substances could be 
imported here.

In response to the September announcement of the study, Army and local 
leaders have worked to clarify the intention of the subcommittee and to 
issue reassurances that the facility would be torn down after the 
destruction of the existing Anniston stockpile.

"We are going to tear down what we use," said Greg Mahall, chief public 
information officer for the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency in 
Aberdeen, Md. "[The Anniston incinerator] will not be able to be used 
for an incinerator by any stretch of the imagination."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Burning+question-+Army-+Chamber+say+Senate+reuse+study+doesn-t+signal+continued+incinerator+use%20&id=3938655-Burning+question-+Army-+Chamber+say+Senate+reuse+study+doesn-t+signal+continued+incinerator+use&instance=home_right_top

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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