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Program Executive Officer Visits Pueblo Plant

Published: July 20, 2017 | Category: Events, PCAPP News
Kim Jackson, plant manager, third from left, describes overpacked, palletized munitions to Suzanne Milchling, program executive officer, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, as Rick Holmes, project manager, left, and Scott Shannon, ordnance technician and escort, look on. Milchling toured the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant on July 18.

Kim Jackson, plant manager, third from left, describes overpacked, palletized munitions to Suzanne Milchling, program executive officer, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives, as Rick Holmes, project manager, left, and Scott Shannon, ordnance technician and escort, look on. Milchling toured the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant on July 18.

The newly selected leader of the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program visited one of the three sites for which she provides oversight the week of July 17.

“I was impressed by the plant,” said Suzanne Milchling, program executive officer, ACWA, after touring the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. “It’s great to see it operating.”

Milchling began her job as the PEO on June 25. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the ACWA program, including operations at PCAPP, the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, located near Richmond, Kentucky, and ACWA’s Anniston Field Office in Alabama.

During her four-day visit, Milchling received an in-depth overview of the plant by project leadership, toured the plant and the training facility, and met with local stakeholders representing the Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program.

Much of the PEO’s 35 years of federal government experience has centered on chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive defense. Milchling also facilitated emergency response and formed a mail screening facility in 2001, which she says assists her in understanding the technical aspects of the Pueblo plant.

“Because I established a mail screening capability for compounds such as anthrax, I’m having an easier time integrating all of the pieces of the chemical demilitarization program,” Milchling said. “I understand the criticality of having a pilot phase to test procedures, operations, communications, and how these come together.”

Milchling succeeds Conrad Whyne, who retired in April.

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  • An ordnance technician at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant reconfigures a 4.2-inch mortar round from its ready-to-use state to one ready for processing and destruction.

    Destruction Campaign Progresses at Pueblo Plant

    Published: November 15, 2019
  • Static Detonation Chamber components are placed on their concrete pad at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado. Three SDC units will be assembled to aid the main plant in its mission to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot.

    Pueblo Plant Begins Static Detonation Chamber Assembly

    Published: November 12, 2019
  • The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant is pursuing a final Part B Hazardous Waste Operating Permit, which will govern the processing of the remaining chemical munitions stockpile.

    Pueblo Plant Pursues Final Operating Permit for Main Process

    Published: November 8, 2019
  • Pleasant View Middle School students, along with teacher Todd Seip, watch training specialist Kent Ladd point out the parts and contents of a chemical weapon during a Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Training Facility tour.

    Chemical Demilitarization in the Classroom

    Published: October 30, 2019
  • A worker at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant places 105mm projectiles that have been unboxed and reconfigured for processing on a pallet using a motorized lift assist.

    Pueblo Plant Destroys More Than 1,000 U.S. Tons of Chemical Warfare Agent

    Published: October 2, 2019
  • Ordinance technicians on the baseline reconfiguration team at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant remove a mustard agent-filled 4.2-inch mortar round from its wooden storage box for disassembly and removal of energetic components before it is placed on a covered pallet in preparation for its eventual destruction in a Static Detonation Chamber. The plant has reconfigured more than half the 4.2-inch rounds in the stockpile.

    More Than Half of Pueblo Plant’s 4.2-inch Mortar Rounds Prepped for Destruction

    Published: September 30, 2019
  • Phil Dunegan will oversee program and business management and execution as principal deputy at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant.

    Principal Deputy Named to Support Pueblo Plant

    Published: September 26, 2019
  • An ordnance technician uses a munitions handling lift assist unit to place disassembled 155mm projectiles onto a conveyor for neutralization processing inside an Explosive Containment Room in the Agent Processing Building of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. The plant has received approval from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to increase the rate at which it processes chemical munitions from 24 per hour to 32 per hour.

    Pueblo Plant Increases Munitions Processing Rate

    Published: August 26, 2019
  • A convoy of semitrailers carrying components for the first Static Detonation Chamber travels Aug. 6, 2019, through the Pueblo Chemical Depot towards the SDC construction site at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. Three SDCs will be used in the Pueblo plant’s mission to destroy the remaining chemical weapons stockpile in Colorado.

    First Static Detonation Chamber Components Arrive at Pueblo Plant

    Published: August 9, 2019
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