Chemical Weapons Incineration in Oregon - Links to Core Information

OTA Position on Chemical Weapons Incineration
We believe that there is no clearer case of both human and environmental threat than with the elimination of chemical weapons stored at the Umatilla Army Depot. Threats associated with incineration are considerable. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control have recently announced . . .

Test Burns Emit Illegal Levels of Toxics
Summer 2002 test burns at umatilla emit illegal levels of toxics. On October 2, 2002 the Army shut down the incineration when mini-burns exceeded allowable emissions for. . .

Citizen Groups Take the State and the Army to Court
Starting October 23, 2002 Oregon citizens and organizations are presenting a legal challenge to the decision by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to grant the Army a permit to incinerate chemical weapons at Umatilla. The lawsuit, if successful, will guarantee the right of Oregonians to . . .

Alternatives to Incineration
In the last few years, examples of chemical weapons programs in other states, such as the Johnston Athol and Tooele, UT sites, overwhelming demonstrate that . . .

Overview of the Issue: Chemical Weapons Incineration at the Army Depot in Umatilla Oregon, by J.R. Wilkinson
Located about seven miles west of Hermiston, OR, the Umatilla Chemical Depot sits. From 1962 to 1969, the Depot received chemical warfare agents for storage that included . . .

Relationship between Oregon’s chemical weapons stockpile and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, by Suzanne Marshall PhD
--Statement from Donald Sampson, Board of Trustees of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation The Army has failed to consider the threat to the Umatilla Indian Reservation . . .

“Judge Agrees To Hear Citizens' Evidence Challenging Army's Oregon Chemical Weapons Incinerator Permit”
Background of the Community’s Lawsuit Challenging the Army’s Plan to Incinerate Weapons.

Umatilla, Oregon incinerator must be stopped! by Mark Brown and Karyn Jones
The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) on February 7, 1997 made its final decision to accept the United States Army's application to build a chemical weapons incineration facility near Hermiston, Oregon. Despite evidence that incineration is the worst option for destroying the nation's obsolete chemical weapons stockpile . . .

Chronology of the Lawsuit to Fight Incineration in Umatilla, Oregon
1997-2000: Oregon Plaintiffs repeatedly denied by DEQ and EQC in their challenges to the incineration permit. 2000: Plaintiffs appeal the DEQ/EQC rulings claiming they have been denied due process. 2001: October 16, 2001, Multnomah County Circuit Court issues an order siding with plaintiffs. . .

Chemical Weapons Working Group Website: Background of chemical weapons disposal at various sites around the nation.
The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) on February 7, 1997 made its final decision to accept the United States Army's application to build a chemical weapons incineration facility near Hermiston, Oregon. Despite evidence that incineration is the worst option for destroying the nation's obsolete chemical weapons stockpile . . .

Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program
1997-2000: In 1996, the Congress and the President, responding to public concerns about the safe destruction of chemical weapons, established and later expanded the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA) Program (Public Laws 104-208, 105-261, and 106-79). Through ACWA, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) was charged with identifying and demonstrating two or more alternative technologies to incineration. . .

Chemical Weapons Working Group Website: Background of chemical weapons disposal at various sites around the nation.
The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) on February 7, 1997 made its final decision to accept the United States Army's application to build a chemical weapons incineration facility near Hermiston, Oregon. Despite evidence that incineration is the worst option for destroying the nation's obsolete chemical weapons stockpile . . .