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United States: Contract Awarded for Pine Bluff Disposal Facility The U.S. Army has awarded a U.S. company a $20.4 million contract to build a facility at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas to dispose of binary precursor chemicals used in the production of chemical weapons, the Pine Bluff Commercial reported today (see GSN, May 21). Teledyne Brown Engineering will convert a building at the arsenal to dispose of stockpiles of methylphosphonic difluoride (DF) and o-ethyl-o-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite (QL), which were designed to combine with other chemicals in a chemical weapon to produce sarin and VX. The Pine Bluff Binary Destruction Facility will be housed in a building originally designed for DF production and will use some of the same equipment used to produce the chemical agent, according to the Commercial. Construction of the facility is set to begin in June 2004 and is scheduled to be completed in January 2005 (Pine Bluff Commercial, June 24).
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