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Media Center: Treaty/Compliance


TREATY/COMPLIANCE |Media Center Home|
The CMA director acts as the Army Implementing Agent for executing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Treaty. In accordance with the CWC, CMA carries out Army Regulation 525-92, which states that CMA’s Center for Treaty Implementation and Compliance (CTIC) manages implementation and compliance activities.

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS)
The United States completed operations at all incinerator facilities in 2012, leaving about 10 percent of the original stockpile to be destroyed. The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives is responsible for constructing and operating neutralization-based destruction facilities at Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, and Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, to destroy the remaining 10 percent of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile.
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Inspection
The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) director is the Army Implementing Agent for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), responsible for treaty management and compliance. The U.S. Army supports the nation’s compliance with the CWC, a treaty overseen by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The Center for Treaty Implementation and Compliance (CTIC), located at CMA Headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is part of a U.S. host team for storage, Schedule 1 and destruction inspections that oversees CWC compliance.
Last M23 VX landmine
In addition to destroying approximately 90 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile since Chemical Weapons Convention entry-into-force, the United States met all Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) deadlines to destroy its unfilled munitions and binary projectile inventory, former chemical weapon production facilities, and all binary chemical weapon materiel. Seen here, a munitions handler guides the last M23 VX landmine in the Anniston Army Depot stockpile as it heads down the conveyor.
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Inspection
The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) has a close relationship with the implementation of a treaty that seeks to rid the world of the threat chemical weapons pose to international security. The CMA director acts as the Army Implementing Agent for executing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The CWC requires States Parties with chemical weapons or chemical weapons production facilities to destroy them in an environmentally safe manner. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) monitors participating nations to ensure activities comply with treaty requirements.
Treaty Inspection
Personnel pull the first treaty sample at the treaty office facility. The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) has a close relationship with the implementation of a treaty that seeks to rid the world of the threat chemical weapons pose to international security. The CMA director acts as the Army Implementing Agent for executing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

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Mountain

The mountain has been an element that has graced many of the past depot emblems, representing Pike’s Peak.

Missile

The Pershing Missile in the center represents one of the most prominent missions of the depot in the 1980s.

Hawk

The hawk represents native depot wildlife, the present and future mission of the environmental programs, and was also the name of one of the missile systems supplied by the depot during its missile mission in the 1950s and 60s.

Insignias

The branch insignia of both the U.S. Army Chemical Corps and Ordnance Corps represent the depot’s command structure through its history as both an ordnance and a chemical depot.

Colors & Text

The colors cobalt blue and yellow gold are representative of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. “Pueblo Depot” is representative of the installation throughout its history. “1942” is the date of establishment. “Safety” and “Service” capture the continued and historical depot missions.

Motto

The motto translates to “A Common Good.”

Sun

The rising sun denotes the dawning of a new day without chemical weapons and the organization’s mission to safely destroy chemical weapons stockpile, thus changing the future of modern warfare.

Wheat

The three stalks of wheat symbolize the harvest of hope that has been secured through industry, cultivation and abundance. It also refers to the unit’s chemical/biological, smoke/obscurant and support to Homeland security industrial base missions at Pine Bluff Arsenal.

Eagle

The double-headed eagle suggests the two CMA methods for stockpile chemical weapons disposal, incineration and neutralization. These methods’ roots are traced back to Project Eagle I (incinerating of mustard agents) and Eagle II (neutralizing nerve agents).

Olive Branch

The olive branch signifies peace and the Activity’s commitment to abide by the stipulations of the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty and assisting other nations.

Octagon

The octagon alludes to the eight original chemical weapons stockpile storage sites in the United States.