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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).