An off-site facility that supported multiple Pueblo plant departments will be closing by the end of 2025.
“The limited personnel who remain at Jetway 1 will be coming home by the end of August, while property and warehouse stock will be moved by the end of September,” said Janean Hardy, project administrator, Bechtel Pueblo Team. “We plan to return the building keys to the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation by the end of the year after conducting extensive cleaning and painting of the facility in the fall.”
Since February 2015, various Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) departments – Amentum and Battelle human resources and business services, and Bechtel acquisitions, which includes property personnel and a warehouse – have conducted business out of Jetway 1, at the Pueblo Memorial Airport Industrial Park.
The project originally needed a receiving warehouse that was outside the PCAPP footprint, which allowed for easier delivery away from the increased security of the U.S. Army installation and from associated masking zones, Hardy said.
“The remaining material in the warehouse, primarily personal protective equipment and used or unserviceable computer equipment, will be absorbed into other warehouses on site or dispositioned to other organizations,” Hardy said.
In 2013, PCAPP opened a training facility at Jetway 4, where more than 120 courses were offered from 2013 to 2023 to prepare workers for their specialized roles in the chemical weapons destruction process. Training courses, including CPR, first aid and fall protection, ensured workers were prepared to deal safely with emergencies. The PCAPP Training Facility was returned to the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation in December 2023 after the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile in Colorado was eliminated in June of that year, when that training was no longer needed.
