PCD

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PCD is a U.S. Army facility in Colorado that stored and oversaw the destruction of chemical weapons as part of the nation’s chemical demilitarization program.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf U.S. Army chemical weapons storage and destruction facility
military installation
abbreviation PCD
category Chemical weapons depots of the United States
Chemical weapons destruction facilities
United States Army installations in Colorado
compliedWith U.S. environmental laws
U.S. safety regulations for chemical agents
cooperatedWith local emergency management agencies
state and federal regulators
country United States
environmentalRegulationBy Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
formerlyKnownAs Pueblo Depot Activity
Pueblo Ordnance Depot
function long-term storage of chemical munitions prior to destruction
operation of pilot plant for chemical agent destruction
hasFacility Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
hasFullName Pueblo Chemical Depot
hasRole supporting local and regional employment
hasSecurityRole protection of chemical weapons stockpile
locatedIn Colorado
Pueblo County, Colorado
near Pueblo, Colorado
notableFor participation in elimination of the U.S. declared chemical weapons stockpile
operatedBy United States Army
oversawDestructionOf U.S. chemical weapons stockpile assigned to the site
ownedBy U.S. Department of the Army
partOf U.S. Army Materiel Command infrastructure
U.S. chemical demilitarization program
U.S. chemical weapons stockpile storage sites
partOfProgram Chemical Stockpile Elimination program
U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity
primaryMission destruction of chemical weapons
storage of chemical weapons
safetyMeasures emergency preparedness planning with local communities
monitoring for chemical agent releases
stored U.S. stockpile of mustard agent munitions
chemical artillery projectiles
chemical mortar rounds
chemical ton containers
subjectTo Chemical Weapons Convention
oversight by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
usedTechnology biotreatment of hydrolysate
explosive destruction technologies for problematic munitions
neutralization-based destruction of mustard agent

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Pueblo Chemical Depot
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