Citizens ask for adequate opportunity to comment.
However, citizen groups closely watching the chemical weapons disposal issue have requested a year in which to provide comments, arguing that Arkansas, in the state's history, has never considered such a complex permit. To give citizens less than three months to review it and submit comments is simply not fair. Ferguson also noted that when a similar petition was submitted in Oregon, their Governor granted a six month extension to the original 60-day comment period. The fact that other non- incineration technologies are currently being tested, and could be applicable to chemical weapons in Pine Bluff, means we deserve a longer, more complete comment period. The Maryland stockpile contains only Mustard agents in ton containers which will be destroyed by neutralization and biological treatments.