{"id":3430,"date":"2020-05-05T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-walden-urge-army-to-finish-cleanup-at-umatilla-chemical-depot-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:06:45","slug":"wyden-merkley-walden-urge-army-to-finish-cleanup-at-umatilla-chemical-depot-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-walden-urge-army-to-finish-cleanup-at-umatilla-chemical-depot-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley, Walden instan al ej\u00e9rcito a terminar la limpieza en el dep\u00f3sito qu\u00edmico de Umatilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>Washington DC -<\/span><\/b><span> U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden today urged the Army to complete its commitment to remediate the now-closed Umatilla Chemical Depot so the National Guard can use the site safely for training and wildfire work in Eastern Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>In a bipartisan letter today to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy<span>, the Oregon lawmakers wrote <\/span>the Army is required to clean up the Ammunition Disposal Area (ADA) at the chemical depot under federal law and as directed by agreements with federal and state authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&ldquo;Even so, the Army now appears to be walking away from its obligation,&rdquo; <\/span><\/b><span>escribieron los legisladores.&nbsp; <b>&ldquo;Doing so would limit the Oregon National Guard&rsquo;s ability to use this land for training but more than that, it would limit the Guard&rsquo;s ability to put out wildfires on the land and endanger those who live in the area&mdash;particularly since munitions have now been found on neighboring private property.&rdquo;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\">\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>The letter noted that <\/span><span>the Army opened a depot at Umatilla in the early 1940s, storing chemical weapons and other munitions and supplies over the next half century.&nbsp; The Army closed the depot in 2012 with plans to transfer 7,500 acres to the Army National Guard for use by the Oregon National Guard.&nbsp; Those 7,500 acres include the ADA&mdash;roughly 1,730 acres that the Army used to dispose of &ldquo;ordnance and other solid wastes by burning, detonation, dumping, or burial.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>The letter comes in response to the Army informing the lawmakers it will stop remediation because it will require more work than expected and there&rsquo;s not enough money to do the job even though Defense Department guidance gives priority to projects that pose a risk to the health and safety of communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&ldquo;We simply reject the idea that the Army cannot afford to properly clean up the potentially-deadly mess it made at Umatilla,&rdquo;<\/span><\/b><span> Wyden, Merkley y Walden escribieron.&nbsp;<b>&ldquo;We hope it is also clear to the Army that with a contractor on site now, it will cost much less to continue this work than it will to wind down and restart this process at some future date.&rdquo;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>In addition to Wyden, Merkley and Walden, the letter also was signed by U.S. Reps. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Dean Phillips (D-MN)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>toda la carta es <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Ltr%20Army%20Umatilla%205.5.20.pdf\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>Una versi\u00f3n web de este comunicado es <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wyden-merkley-walden-urge-army-to-finish-cleanup-at-umatilla-chemical-depot\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &mdash; U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden today urged the Army to complete its commitment to remediate the now-closed Umatilla Chemical Depot so the National Guard can use the site safely for training and wildfire work in Eastern Oregon. In a bipartisan letter today to Army Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wyden, Merkley, Walden Urge Army to Finish Cleanup at Umatilla Chemical Depot - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-walden-urge-army-to-finish-cleanup-at-umatilla-chemical-depot-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wyden, Merkley, Walden Urge Army to Finish Cleanup at Umatilla Chemical Depot - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &mdash; U.S. Sens. 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