MOSCOW. March 3 (Interfax-AVN) - A management company will be established to supervise the construction of an installation for scrapping war gases in the town of Kambarka in the Udmurtian autonomous republic, deputy chief of the Federal Special Construction Service Lieutenant General Vitaly Martsinyuk told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
"The department for safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons stocks under the Russian Ammunition Agency was the chief customer at the experimental facility that we built in the town of Gorny in the Saratov region. Nevertheless, a new management company is to be set up for building the installation in Kambarka," Martsinyuk said.
He stressed that the Ammunition Agency will conclude a general agreement with the company and the company will conclude an agreement with designers and the general contractor, which is the Federal Special Construction Service.
"The management company will commission the installation, use it and destroy war gases. Functions of the customer of social infrastructure are to be handed over to regions. The local administration will control and supervise the spending of money allocated for these purposes," Martsinyuk noted.
He said that the Federal Special Construction Service plans to use RUB1.1bn (USD34.85m) from the budget in accordance with a program of building chemical weapons scrapping facility. The major share of money will be spent on launching large-scale construction of the industrial zone in Kambarka. No less than 10% of funds will be allocated for the construction of social installations.
The installation in Kambarka will be constructed in 2003- 2004. The plant's commissioning is scheduled for 2005. The destruction of entire stocks of poisonous substances such as yperite and lewisite will be completed in Kambarka in 2011.