U.S. Senator Ken Salazar Member of the Agriculture, Energy and Veterans Affairs Committees 2300 15^th Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO 80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
For Immediate Release September 25, 2007		CONTACT:Stephanie Valencia – 202-228-3630 Cody Wertz 303-350-0032
Sen. Salazar Pushes Pentagon to Pull Back on Shipping Hydrolysate & Push Forward on Destruction at Pueblo Chemical Depot WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, United States Senator Ken Salazar urged the Department of Defense not to proceed with the latest studies on hydrolysate destruction at the Pueblo Chemical Depot and to issue a final decision to proceed with on-site destruction. In his letter to Under Secretary of Defense John Young, Senator Salazar cited recent studies concluding that shipping hydrolysate off-site would yield few cost-savings and likely would result in litigation. Senator Salazar wrote, “Given the conclusions of these recent studies on hydrolysate destruction, I am perplexed that the Department has commissioned two additional studies on the potential cost-savings of off-site hydrolysate destruction.” In addition, Senator Salazar wrote, “Furthermore, since construction of a biotreatment facility for hydrolysate is already underway in Pueblo, the money spent to commission two more studies would be more wisely used to expedite construction of the weapons destruction facilities.” The full-text of Senator Salazar’s letter to Under Secretary Young is available by clicking here. ###