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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Army, thwarted in two previous bids to dispose of chemical waste from the destruction of Indiana's deadly VX nerve agent stockpile, has contracted with a French company to incinerate the waste at a Texas plant, but environmentalists said they will fight that effort as well.
Army spokesman Greg Mahall said Wednesday that Veolia Environmental Services had signed a $49 million contract to truck about 2 million gallons of the caustic wastewater, called VX hydrolysate, about 1,000 miles from western Indiana's Newport Chemical Depot to Port Arthur for incineration.
The deal, finalized Monday, comes three months after DuPont Co. dropped out of a plan to treat the hydrolysate at its Deepwater, N.J., plant, citing strong public opposition to its proposal to discharge the treated waste into the Delaware River.
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