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Chemical plant security re-engaged
Thursday, 22, April 2010


Although he left his stressful job with the Environmental Protection Agency nearly seven years ago, Bob Bostock says there’s one scenario that still keeps him awake at night: A terrorist breaches a chemical plant’s chlorine storage tank in, say, northern New Jersey, unleashing a toxic cloud that kills thousands.“It’s not that hard to do,” said Bostock, EPA’s top homeland security policy adviser from 2001 to 2003. “It doesn’t require a high level of sophistication and in some cases doesn’t even require access to the facility. It’s something that could be done from off site.”

Bostock’s recurring nightmare is at the center of a seemingly interminable argument over chemical plant security on Capitol Hill that could be re-engaged in the coming weeks.Legislation passed by the House last fall would require major manufacturers and users of such deadly gases as chlorine to consider converting to safer alternatives and submit to stricter oversight by the Department of Homeland Security. In some cases, DHS could force the highest-risk facilities to switch. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) has said he will introduce a bill at least as rigorous as the House version in the near future.
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