MOSCOW. July 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Over RUB1bn (USD32.93m) will be allocated for completing the second section of the chemical weapons destruction facility in the town of Gorny in Russia's Saratov region in 2003, a source in the Russian State Commission on Chemical Disarmament told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
"In accordance with the updated state defense order, over RUB1bn is allocated for completing the construction of the Gorny facility's second section in 2003. Nearly RUB170m (USD5.6m) will be spent on building elements of the region's social infrastructure," the source said.
The construction of the thermal deactivation plant with engineer networks and auxiliary units, temporary storage pads for stocks, a laboratory building, a waste burial range, the environment monitoring system and several other elements of the industrial zone will end in Gorny in 2003. The above-mentioned facilities are to be put in operation before the end of the year.
In addition, it is planned to complete the construction of residential buildings in the town of Mikhailovsky-4 and three three-story apartment blocks and single-family houses for teachers and doctors in Gorny this year, the source said.
The plan of Gorny's social infrastructure construction provides for continuing the repairs of the Gorny-Berezovo motorway and completing the construction of street water supply networks and sewerage in Gorny in 2004. Reconstruction of the central district hospital and motorways in Gorny is also to be completed in 2004.