Utah to lose 1,300 jobs when munitions sites close

Officials say about 1,300 Utah jobs are being phased out with the planned closing of two U.S. Army facilities responsible for storing and incinerating the nation's largest stockpile of chemical weapons over the past 15 years. The Deseret News reports the last of the chemical weapons should be incinerated by February at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in west Utah. Decontamination will follow, and the plant will close by September 2014. Army officials say about 1,000 jobs will be eliminated, and another 350 lost at Deseret Chemical Depot, where the munitions have been stored. Ogden Standard-Examiner