Weapons locations specified

The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying the country s stockpile of aging chemical weapons, stored at eight locations in the continental United States and on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The deadline for completing the destruction of these weapons, as specified by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) international treaty, is April 29, 2007. Originally, the Army selected incineration as the preferred baseline destruction technology, and it currently operates two incineration facilities—one on Johnston Atoll and one at the Deseret Chemical Depot near Tooele, Utah. The Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) completed destruction of the stockpile on Johnston Island in late 2000, and closure of the... 

In the 1993 Defense Appropriations Act (P.L. 102-484, Section 176), Congress directed the Army to (1) report the locations, types, and quantities of nonstockpile chemical materiel (2) specify the methods to be used for its destruction (3) provide cost and time estimates and (4) assess transportation options, hi a Survey and Analysis Report, the Army provided an overview of its task (U.S. Army, 1996). According to this report, nonstockpile CWM is located at more than 200 sites in the United States and U.S. territories. CWM at most sites includes small quantities of chemical agent but does not appear to pose immediate hazards to the public or the environment. However, chemical weapons agreements and continuing discoveries of contaminated sites have increased the impetus for locating and disposing of all nonstockpile CWM. 

Specify the precise location, nature and general scope of activities of any facility or establishment under its ownership or possession, or located in any place under its jurisdiction or control, and that has been designed, constructed or used since 1 January 1946 primarily for development of chemical weapons. Such declaration shall include, inter alia, laboratories and test and evaluation sites ... 

All locations at which chemical weapons specified in paragraph 1 are stored or destroyed shall be subject to systematic verification through on-site inspection and monitoring with on-site instruments, in accordance with Part IV (A) of the Verification Armex. 

The declaration of chemical weapons pursuant to Article III, paragraph 1 (a) (iii), shall contain all information specified in paragraphs 1 to 3 above. It is the responsibility of the State Party on whose territory the chemical weapons are located to make appropriate arrangements with the other State to ensure that the declarations are made. If the State Party on whose territory the chemical weapons are located is not able to fulfil its obligations under this paragraph, it shall state the reasons therefor. 

A State Party that has transferred or received chemical weapons since 1 January 1946 shall declare these transfers or receipts pursuant to Article III, paragraph 1 (a) (iv), provided the amount transferred or received exceeded 1 tonne per chemical per year in bulk and/or munition form. This declaration shall be made according to the inventory format specified in paragraphs 1 and 2. This declaration shall also indicate the supplier and recipient countries, the dates of the transfers or receipts and, as precisely as possible, the current location of the transferred items. When not all the specified information is available for transfers or receipts of chemical weapons for the period between 1 January 1946 and 1 January 1970, the State Party shall declare whatever information is still available to it and provide an explanation as to why it cannot submit a full declaration. 

Recalling that the Commission, in its PC-V/12, subparagraph 6.6(a), adopted the recommendation that, in declaring chemical weapons, all locations must be specified. 

Adopts the recommendation that, in declaring chemical weapons, all locations must be specified. 

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