MOSCOW. Nov 10 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia is working to fulfil the environmental requirements for chemical disarmament and is creating state and regional systems of environmental control and monitoring, Federal Industry Agency deputy head Viktor Kholstov said on Wednesday.
An environmental monitoring sub-system has been created at the chemical weapons disposal facility in Gorny in the Saratov region, Kholstov told a conference on Russia's observance of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Moscow.
Another sub-system will be created at the facility in the town of Kambarka, taking the obtained experience into account, he said. Regional monitoring programs have been developed for the facilities in Shchuchye, Leonidovka and Maradykovsky.
Feasibility studies have been made for establishing industrial environment monitoring at chemical weapons storage and destruction facilities, Kholstov went on. According to him, the Russian government has been instructed to work out documents on establishing a single state environment control and monitoring system before the end of the year.