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	Newport Chemical Depot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Newport Chemical Depot is a bulk chemical storage and destruction facility in west central Indiana, thirty miles north of Terre Haute.
		They are overseen by an officer reporting to the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, and a board of civilian government overseers called the Indiana Citizens' Advisory Commission.
		The unit consists of a chemical reactor in which the VX is mixed with water and sodium hydroxide, heated to 194°F and stirred using mechanical paddles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newport_Chemical_Depot (380 words)

	Chemical Weapons United States
		Chemical agents in the modem sense were first used in World War I, when chlorine gas was released, from large cylinders, in a favorable wind.
		As is the case with nuclear weapons, the President of the United States must approve the initial use of chemical weapons.
		The term non-stockpile chemical materiel describes a wide variety of chemical warfare materiel that is not part of the unitary stockpile as declared in 1986.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/cbw/cw.htm (803 words)

	IndyStar.com: Factfiles
		NEWPORT, Ind. -- On the night of the attacks, Gidget Hall was resting in her home when the fighter jets came roaring overhead.
		Depot officials won't discuss the security measures taken after the attacks except to say that its Army commander, Maj. Christopher Isaacson, has obtained a no-fly zone over the 7,098-acre facility, said spokeswoman Terry Arthur.
		They decided that if the depot was attacked, the best place for the children was the gym, which could be sealed from the outside air.
	www.indystar.com /library/factfiles/crime/national/2001/sept11/articles/0924newport.html (1131 words)

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		VX Neutratization at the Newport Chemical Depot Pursuant to the above laws and treaty, the Army formulated a plan to destroy the VX nerve agent stored at the Chemical Depot in Newport, Indiana using a chemical neutralization process at the Newport facility.
		The second step uses further chemical processes to destroy the listed chemicals in the VX hydrolysate and to reduce the toxicity of that substance so that it can be disposed of in a public treatment facility.
		In the situation evaluated at Newport, the EA found that risk to the general population from such a fire would be limited since the distance to the nearest concentration of population was 2 to 3 miles, and because trained response forces were present.
	www.ohiocitizen.org /campaigns/dayton_vx/ComplaintreVXNerveAgent.doc (3679 words)

	Newport Chemical Depot (NECD) - Newport, Indiana - United States Nuclear Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Newport Chemical Depot (NECD or the Depot) is located in west central Indiana, approximately 2 miles south of Newport and 70 miles west of Indianapolis.
		The Newport Chemical Depot (NECD) stores bulk nerve agent VX in ton containers that are over six and one-half feet long, and almost three feet in diameter.
		The ton containers at Newport are stacked in rows three containers high, and are clamped together for stability on top of wooden concave cradles inside a single warehouse of corrugated steel sheet metal supported by steel beams.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/newport.htm (1749 words)

	Indianapolis Star 03/03/04
		Newport -- Tests ruled out the presence of deadly VX nerve agent in the air at the Newport Chemical Depot after a monitor set to detect the chemical sounded Tuesday, depot officials said.
		The monitor did not malfunction, she said, but detected some sort of chemical -- possibly one that was a precursor to VX or even a chemical present in pesticides used in the agricultural area near the depot.
		VX was manufactured at the Army's Newport Chemical Depot until 1969, when then-President Richard Nixon issued a moratorium on the production and transport of chemical weapons.
	www.cwwg.org /is03.03.04.html (242 words)

	Company News On Call
		NEWPORT, Ind., Dec. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PESI; BSE)(Germany: PES.BE) today announced that its Dayton, Ohio, subsidiary has received from Parsons a notice of award of a subcontract and limited notice to proceed with the post- treatment of the neutralized VX byproduct called hydrolysate.
		Parsons is currently contracted by the Army to destroy the nerve agent VX stockpile at Newport Chemical Depot, Newport, Indiana.
		Destruction of the Newport chemical agent stockpile is expected to begin in the fall of 2003 and will take approximately nine months to complete.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/12-26-2002/0001863597 (644 words)

	Army Delays Destruction of Nerve Agent (phillyBurbs.com)
		NEWPORT, Ind. - The Army said it will delay destruction of a deadly nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot until early 2004 because the plant doesn't yet meet environmental standards or have a sprinkler system.
		The depot is not expected to be ready before January at the earliest, said Jeff Brubaker, project manager for the Army.
		Army plans call for the shipment of 300,000 gallons of the VX byproduct from the Newport depot to a facility in suburban Dayton, Ohio.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/1-08142003-141782.html (395 words)

	chem100401 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Newport facility is approximately 30 miles from Terre Haute and 70 miles from Indianapolis and Lafayette.
		Newport's stockpile is scheduled to be destroyed by June 2006.
		Other chemical depots exist in Richmond, Ky.; Anniston, Ala.; Tooele, Utah; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; Pine Bluff, Ark.; Pueblo, Colo., and Hermiston, Ore. All of those depots' chemicals weapons are scheduled to be destroyed within the next decade.
	www.cincypost.com /2001/oct/04/chem100401.html (450 words)

	The World Forum \|\| Political Forums
		Testing began on a chemical reactor at the Newport Chemical Depot near Terre Haute, Indiana on Friday morning.
		The unit consists of a chemical reactor in which the VX will be mixed with water and sodium hydroxide, heated to 194°F while mixed with paddles.
		NCD is a bulk chemical storage and destruction facility in west central Indiana, thirty miles north of Terre Haute.
	www.theworldforum.org /story/2005/5/8/10287/46770 (836 words)

	Vermillion County, IN News
		Destruction of the deadly VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot in Vermillion County is still on hold.
		Newport is the sleepy little county seat of Vermillion County, where the school kids only put in a half day Thursday.
		With the VX neutralization underway in Vermillion County at the Newport Chemical Depot, should residents in nearby Montezuma be worried about a missing warning siren in their town?.
	www.topix.net /county/vermillion-in (469 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Army to begin destroying deadly nerve agent at Indiana chemical depot in ...
		NEWPORT, Ind. – The Army will begin this spring destroying a deadly nerve agent that was stockpiled at a chemical depot, an official said.
		Jeff Brubaker, government site project manager at the Newport Chemical Depot, said Tuesday that he expects the 1,269 tons of VX to be destroyed in 2 1/2 years.
		The VX neutralization at the depot is expected to create 4 million gallons of a chemical byproduct called hydrolysate that requires additional treatment before disposal.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20050216-0316-brf-nerveagent-delay.html (202 words)

	Officials Consider Storing VX Byproduct At Newport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		(NEWPORT, Ind., July 2nd, 2003, 10:30 a.m.) - Officials are considering temporarily storing at the Newport Chemical Depot nearly 1 million gallons of a chemical produced by the destruction of the deadly VX nerve agent.
		Building a tank farm at the depot about 30 miles north of Terre Haute would ensure the VX destruction could continue if the byproduct could not be shipped to Ohio, the Tribune-Star reported Wednesday.
		The Cold War-era chemical depot was built in 1961 to produce VX.
	www.greenlink.org /public/hotissues/vx11.html (670 words)

	The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency is responsible for destroying all U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles while ensuring the safety of the public, the workforce and the environment.
		The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA) mission is to dispose of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile, while ensuring the safety of workers, the public and the environment.
		The Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility team has completed design, construction, and systemization and currently is exercising the facility operating systems to ensure safe and effective performance and to provide hands on operator training.
	www.cma.army.mil /publications.aspx?criteria=site&value=NECDF (768 words)

	Newport, Christopher on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On his fourth voyage from England (1609), Newport was wrecked on the Bermudas with Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers and did not reach Virginia until May, 1610.
		Christopher Isaacson is commander of the Army's Newport Chemical Depot in Newport, Indiana.
		This view along Warwick Boulevard in Newport News, Virginia shows some of the business properties that Christopher Newport University is buying.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NewportC1.asp (810 words)

	VX Nerve Gas
		The U.S. Army is proposing to pre-treat stockpiles of VX nerve agent at its Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Newport Indiana, and then transport the resulting hydrolysate across the country to the DuPont Chambers Works facility at Carney’s Point, Salem County, NJ for final treatment and disposal into the Delaware River.
		The Newport Indiana community has repeatedly voiced its preference that the VX nerve agent be treated, destroyed and disposed of on site in Newport as originally agreed to by the Army.
		The toxicity effects of these chemical compounds needs research as all three compounds may be present in the discharge that enters the Delaware River as a result of DuPont’s proposed treatment method.
	www.delawareriverkeeper.org /factsheets/vx_nerve_agent.htm (1363 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot (2001)
		The technical definition of neutralization is a chemical reaction between an acid and a base to form a salt and water.
		Chemical agents are neither acids nor bases, however, so the use of the term neutralization is somewhat confusing.
		A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot 1 Introduction BACKGROUND The United States is a signatory to the 1997 international Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which mandates the destruction of all chemical agent and munitions stockpiles by April 29, 2007.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309076129/html/6.html (1915 words)

	Terre Haute, Indiana News :: TribStar.com :: Vermillion to face economic hit when VX eliminated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The chemical depot is Vermillion County's largest employer, however, the Department of Defense "has no further plans to use the Chemical Depot once the destruction of nerve agent VX is completed," said Terry Arthur, Army spokeswoman.
		One-third of the depot grounds and buildings inside the fence easily will be adapted to serve business and industry since the infrastructure already is in place -- water wells, a sewer plant and a network of roads, he said.
		With the Newport Chemical Depot at peak employment, the community hasn't felt the full effect of the jobs lost at Eli Lilly, said Tim Wilson, president of the Vermillion County Board of Commissioners.
	www.tribstar.com /articles/2004/12/29/news/news03.txt (972 words)

	The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) - Newport, IN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) - Newport, IN Newport, IN The Newport Chemical Depot is one of eight Army installations in the U.S. with a chemical agent stockpile.
		The Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility is designed for the sole purpose of destroying the chemical agent stored at the Newport Army Depot.
		In addition, demolition of the former chemical weapons production facility located on Newport Chemical Depot is part of a coordinated campaign by the United States to eliminate its chemical weapons production capabilities.
	www.cma.army.mil /newport.aspx (544 words)

	Cumberland Times-News 02/05/04
		Newport Chemical Depot is neutralizing 1,200 tons of VX nerve agent as part of the U.S. Army’s efforts to improve homeland security by eliminating its chemical weapon stockpiles.
		The neutralization process causes a chemical reaction with hydrolysate to destroy the VX nerve agent.
		That’s because that chemical is being used to neutralize the VX,”; said Arthur.
	www.cwwg.org /tn02.05.04.html (577 words)

	Utah Citizens' Advisory Commission on Chemical Weapons Demilitarization - Deseret Chemical Depot - March 1999 Minutes
		Chemical neutralization of phosgene (the phosgene that will be tested will be purchased commercially because they don't have any at Dugway) will begin in June 1999.
		Fifty years ago the country began building an arsenal of chemical weapons and there were not any long term studies on the health effects of low level exposure to nerve agent.
		The chemical weapons are now being burned and there isn't any confidence in the levels that have been determined and they are not adequately protecting public health.
	www.governor.state.ut.us /military/March99.htm (4601 words)

	Perma-Fix -- Ohio Citizen Action
		The chemical stockpile at the Newport Chemical Depot consists of 1,690 ton containers, all holding the chemical agent VX.
		NEWPORT, IN -- "Officials are considering temporarily storing at the Newport Chemical Depot nearly 1 million gallons of a chemical produced by the destruction of the deadly VX nerve agent.
		Apr 16: Citizens for the Responsible Destruction of Chemical Weapons of the Miami Valley files complaint with Pentagon, U.S. DAYTON -- "The Newport Chemical Depot is in a rural area.
	www.ohiocitizen.org /campaigns/dayton_vx/dayton_vx.html (6987 words)

	Northeastern Naturalist: Ectoparasites of small mammals from the Newport Chemical Depot, Vermillion County, Indiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Towards this end, a survey of the ectoparasites of small mammals from the Newport Chemical Depot was conducted.
		The Newport Chemical Depot (NCD), formerly known as the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, is located southwest of Newport in northern Vermillion County, Indiana.
		The depot consists of 2,874 hectares, of which approximately one-half is farmed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3845/is_200301/ai_n9230485 (1314 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Newport Chemical Agent Destruction Facility begins its 45-day pre-operational demonstration today, a process necessary to obtain final approval to begin destruction of nerve agent VX.
		Meanwhile, emergency responders around the Newport area say they are ready for any accident that might lead to a release of the nerve agent.
		In a release of a VX plume, wind direction might determine if people in Newport shelter in place until the plume passes over or evacuate, and to which direction they are to evacuate, Eslinger said.
	www.tribstar.com /articles/2005/02/25/news/local_and_bistate_yesterday/lb03.prt (1035 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		The state of New Jersey is blocking a proposal by the U.S. Army and the chemical company DuPont to transport corrosive wastewater left after VX nerve agent is neutralized from Indiana to New Jersey for further treatment.
		The Army is neutralizing the VX nerve gas as part of its responsibility under the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty ratified by U.S. Congress in 1997 to destroy all chemical weapons stockpiles in the United States.
		The Newport Chemical Depot is one of eight Army installations in the U.S. with a chemical agent stockpile.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/may2005/2005-05-23-03.asp (1518 words)

	FindHealthNews : News, Reviews and Articles On VX
		The tanks were used in the 1960s during the manufacture of VX at the Newport Chemical Depot...
		The Army will destroy the VX nerve agent stockpiled at the Newport Chemical Depot in western Indiana and then store the byproduct there until a decision is made on how to treat and dispose of it...
		The United States is paying the lions share of a billion-dollar, state-of-the-art, chemical weapons destruction facility in the Siberian town of Shchuchye intended to neutralize nearly two million artillery shells and rocket warheads filled with Sarin, Soman, and VX agents from around Russia.
	www.findhealthnews.com /files/VX.html (4908 words)

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