EPA APPROVES PLANT TO NEUTRALIZE MUSTARD GAS AT ABERDEEN ARMY BASE

From: Regulatory Intelligence Data | Date: March 3, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

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ABERDEEN, Md. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a permit to the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Aberdeen to construct a treatment plant to neutralize the chemical warfare agent HD, also known as mustard gas, which has been stockpiled at the site since World War I. EPA permits are required to treat, store or dispose of hazardous materials.

This will be the first chemical weapons stockpile destruction facility in the country that has been granted an environmental permit for a technology other than incineration. The permit ...

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