[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, CHEMWEAPONS: "Deseret Chemical Depot (UT) closes, transitions installation to Tooele Army Depot"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Deseret Chemical Depot closes, transitions installation to Tooele  
Army Depot

By Mark W. Mesesan
Army News Service
July 16, 2013

DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, Utah (July 16, 2013) -- In a special U.S.  
military ceremony, Deseret Chemical Depot was formally closed July  
11. Yet with hundreds of workers - both government and contractors -  
still employed here, the gates remain open.



U.S. Army officials are calling it a transfer of property - taking  
Deseret Chemical Depot's, or DCD's, 19,000-plus acres and  
transferring them to nearby Tooele Army Depot, known as TEAD.



Brig. Gen. Kristin French, one day removed from installing a new TEAD  
commander, today brought back some old history while ushering in some  
new -- renaming Deseret Chemical Depot as Tooele Army Depot, South  
Area, the name the depot had between 1969 and 1985. But the legacy,  
she said, was the work carried out here.


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For the entire release, see
http://www.army.mil/article/107472/ 
Deseret_Chemical_Depot_closes__transitions_installation_to_Tooele_Army_D 
epot/

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