http://www.cma.army.mil/ cma.webmaster@conus.army.mil 64 55 http://www.cma.army.mil/images/cma_logo_sm.gif News Releases from the US Army's Chemical Materials Agency in a RSS feed format. The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) today announced the appointment of Don E. Barclay as its Acting Director, effective February 26, 2012. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683888 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:08 GMT The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) completed the destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile at Deseret Chemical Depot (DCD) in Utah on Jan. 21, 2012. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683880 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:12:14 GMT Workers began processing the depot’s last remaining chemical agent, Lewisite through the Area 10 Liquid Incinerator. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683876 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:55:12 GMT Col. Mark B. Pomeroy, depot commander; Ted Ryba, TOCDF site project manager; and Gary McCloskey, will host a news conference . http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683873 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:47:49 GMT With chemical weapons destruction operations nearing their end at the U.S. Army's Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) the first of several planned project staffing reductions began today by system contractor URS. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683871 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:07:36 GMT The results of a Dec. 5 – 6 inspection by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and completion of all Treaty verification activities confirmed that no chemical weapons remain in storage http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683864 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:03:07 GMT Workers at DCD’s Area 10 Liquid Incinerator today began destruction operations targeting the last bulk agent stockpile—less than one dozen ton containers of Lewisite blister agent, the only such stockpile in the U.S. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683863 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:02:12 GMT Anniston Chemical Activity (ANCA) officials today issued letters to several employees telling them either they will be moved from their current jobs to other positions or they will be separated from civil service effective April 7, 2012 http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683850 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:39:19 GMT Workers at the Area 10 Liquid Incinerator (ATLIC) today safely destroyed the last of the stockpiled nerve agent stored at Deseret Chemical Depot. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683847 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:43:51 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The first obvious physical change to the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683842 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:29:15 GMT Pendleton, Ore. – The Oregon Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) will no longer test the Tone Alert Radios in Umatilla and Morrow Counties. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683843 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:13:29 GMT DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, STOCKTON, Utah – Workers assigned to the Area 10 Liquid Incinerator project on Deseret Chemical Depot today began destruction operations targeting the depot’s last stockpiled nerve agent... http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683839 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:46:22 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – Nearly 50 years of chemical agent storage came to an end today with the destruction of the last ton container http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683836 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:47:26 GMT The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF), located at Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD), Oregon, today completed the disposal of the chemical weapons stockpile stored at UMCD. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683830 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:04:25 GMT October 20, 2011 - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The Umatilla Chemical Depot delivered the last stockpiled ton containers filled with mustard chemical agent today shortly before 11 a.m. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683828 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:14:17 GMT URS officials at the U.S. Army’s Utah-based chemical weapons incinerator here, the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), today began a formal process of notifying contractor employees who will be affected by RIF. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683819 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:04:12 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The Umatilla Chemical Depot will hold a brief ceremony Oct. 20 at 9 a.m., http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683818 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:39:32 GMT Workers at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF) today began using specially-designed cutting equipment to assist destruction of Deseret Chemical Depot's (DCD's) remaining explosively configured chemical weapons. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683810 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:50:55 GMT The Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ANCDF), located at Anniston Army Depot (ANAD), Ala., yesterday completed the disposal of the chemical weapons stockpile stored at ANAD. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683807 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:40:43 GMT ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. (September 22, 2011) – Chemical munitions destruction operations at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (ANCDF) concluded today http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683805 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:54:20 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) has surpassed 9 million hours without a lost workday accident. As of Sept. 19, it has been 1,900 days, http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683804 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:53:21 GMT On Sept. 20, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality renewed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Hazardous Waste Permit for the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Hermiston, Ore. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683808 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:39:43 GMT On Sept. 20, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality renewed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Hazardous Waste Permit for the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, Hermiston, Ore. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683803 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:50:19 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) reached the 90 percent disposal point today in its last campaign when the incineration facility destroyed the 2,371th ton container. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683799 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:35:18 GMT Anniston Chemical Activity (ANCA) employees achieved their most significant milestone today. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683795 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:37:42 GMT August 25, 2011 - News Release - Umatilla Chemical Depot, Hermiston, Ore. – A quarterly emergency preparedness drill is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 30. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683789 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:27:21 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility has received approval from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to increase the Liquid Incinerator processing rate from 75 percent to 100 percent http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683788 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:19:46 GMT August 3, 2011 - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. - Thanks to an innovative process not used anywhere else in the demilitarization world, http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683786 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:05:17 GMT Mutual aid fire fighters from Pueblo County and the Transportation Technology Center were released from the wild land fire burning on the west perimeter of Pueblo Chemical Depot and Chico Creek at 4 p.m. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683774 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:55:36 GMT Approximately 24 local fire fighters from the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Rural One Fire, and the Transportation Technology Center Fire Department are fighting a wild land fire that began over the weekend and has re-kindled, slowly burning on Chico Creek. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683772 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:44:58 GMT The Director of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA), Conrad Whyne, hosted the Project Manager for Chemical Stockpile Elimination (PM-CSE) Change of Charter ceremony July 26 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683766 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:45:16 GMT The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) recently completed a project that resulted in recycling more than 6.5 million pounds of steel. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683764 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:27:22 GMT July 5, 2011 - UMATILLA CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITY, Oregon – Today, July 5, 2011, the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility destroyed its 1,976th mustard agent filled ton container, leaving 659 TCs remaining in inventory. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683756 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:53:06 GMT Chemical crews completed a munition X-ray assessment within the Chemical Limited Area here June 14. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683748 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:58:22 GMT May 23, 2011 - New Release - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. -- Government workers at the Umatilla http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683731 Mon, 23 May 2011 19:14:33 GMT Disposal operations for the 108 bulk containers filled with mustard agent concluded today when http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683727 Thu, 19 May 2011 14:40:13 GMT DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, STOCKTON, Utah. –Workers at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility yesterday destroyed the last of 6,399 mustard agent-filled bulk containers originally stored at the U.S. Army’s Deseret Chemical Depot. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683725 Tue, 17 May 2011 13:28:03 GMT Workers completed the last scheduled shipment of chemical agent munitions in an On-Site Container (ONC) today, from the Deseret Chemical Depot's storage area. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683723 Wed, 11 May 2011 12:43:03 GMT UMATILLA CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITY, Oregon - On May 5, 2011 the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility destroyed its 1635th TC http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683720 Thu, 05 May 2011 18:46:41 GMT April 18, 2011 - UMCDF News Release - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – Saturday, April. 16, the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility began use of the Rinsate Collection System, http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683709 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:07:58 GMT The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) announced today that on Wednesday, March 23, it achieved destruction of 85 percent of the U.S. chemical agent stockpile since Entry-Into-Force (EIF). http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683695 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:05:45 GMT Firefighting officials report that as of 8:45 p.m., approximately 95 percent of the grass fire on Pueblo Chemical Depot has been contained. Crews are now mopping up hot spots and some fire fighters have been released. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683693 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:28:09 GMT Blue Grass Chemical Activity completed the containerization of mustard projectiles which were earlier slated for an assessment designed to determine the characteristics of the mustard agent contained within them. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683698 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:41:09 GMT The U.S. Army's Umatilla Chemical Depot in Oregon received the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2010 Military Conservation Partner Award recognizing an extraordinary conservation partnership that, among other highlights. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683684 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:00:39 GMT On March 16, 2011, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality approved a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act permit modification request submitted by the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility to install a Rinsate Collection System. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683690 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:22:50 GMT The Department of the Army announced today that a Reduction in Force will be conducted at Pine Bluff Chemical Activity, located at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683678 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:55:55 GMT Don Barclay, Deputy Director of the Army’s Chemical Materials Agency, Aberdeen, Md., and Maj. Gen. Raymond Rees, Oregon State Adjutant General, will be the guest speakers at a memorial ceremony, Monday, March 21. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683687 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:14:53 GMT A ceremony commemorating the elimination of the chemical weapons stockpile at Pine Bluff Arsenal. This ceremony is free and open to the public. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683673 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:26:18 GMT Government workers at Deseret Chemical Depot today achieved a major safety milestone -- reaching and surpassing one million consecutive man-hours without a lost workday injury. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683668 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:11:22 GMT March 3, 2011 - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – A quarterly emergency preparedness drill is scheduled for Tuesday, March 8. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683667 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:50:10 GMT February 17, 2011 - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. – The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility will pause processing of HD mustard ton containers and prepare for maintenance to its Metal Parts Furnace, starting today. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683657 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:43:55 GMT February 14, 2011 - UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, Hermiston, Ore. 013 Operations were interrupted Saturday at the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. http://www.cma.army.mil/fndocumentviewer.aspx?DocID=003683647 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:10:01 GMT