page_title: Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
hierarchical_section_title: Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
caption_attribution_description: English: Pueblo Chemical Agent_Destruction Pilot Plant Logo
context_page_description: The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant is a chemical weapons destruction facility that has been built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, in southeastern Colorado. The depot contains munitions that are part of the U.S. national chemical weapons stockpile. Before chemical weapons disposal began at PCAPP, these munitions contained 2,613 U.S. tons of mustard agent. The weapons have been stored at the 23,000-acre depot since the 1950s.
  Destruction of this stockpile is a requirement of the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty to which the United States is a party. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention and monitors the progress of the nation's chemical weapons destruction programs.
  The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives oversees the destruction of the Pueblo chemical weapons stockpile.
  Bechtel Pueblo Team will design, construct, pilot test, operate and close PCAPP.
context_section_description: The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) is a chemical weapons destruction facility that has been built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, in southeastern Colorado. The depot contains munitions that are part of the U.S. national chemical weapons stockpile. Before chemical weapons disposal began at PCAPP, these munitions contained 2,613 U.S. tons of mustard agent. The weapons have been stored at the 23,000-acre (93 km²) depot since the 1950s.
  Destruction of this stockpile is a requirement of the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty to which the United States is a party. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention and monitors the progress of the nation's chemical weapons destruction programs.
  The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) oversees the destruction of the Pueblo chemical weapons stockpile.
  Bechtel Pueblo Team (BPT; consisting of Bechtel National, Inc., AECOM and Battelle Memorial Institute) will design, construct, pilot test, operate and close PCAPP.
caption: PCAPP logo
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