The South Area of the Tooele Depot, also called the Deseret Chemical Depot, is an ammunition storage facility that is home to 42.3% of the nation's chemical weapons. The nearly 30 million pounds of aging mustard and nerve agents are stored in 208 igloos at the facility, awaiting disposal, according to international treaties. Near the igloo field is the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility incinerator, completed in 1994 at a cost of several hundred million dollars. The controversial disposal plant started burning the chemical weapons at the depot in August, 1996. The incinerator is operated by the EG&G corporation, and it is the first of several incinerators the Army proposes to construct at military facilities across the country, wherever chemical weapons are stored.
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