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Federal funding to leave Utah

TOOELE, Utah-- Utah's massive chemical weapons stockpile is gone and so is the federal funding that helped pay for the sophisticated emergency response centers. 

As many as 1,400 jobs will be eliminated now that the world's largest stockpile of chemical weapons has been destroyed in Utah's west desert. 
Utah had received $124 million in federal funding since 1989 through the chemical stockpile emergency preparedness program. 
The money helped pay for Tooele County's emergency management building, 62 outdoor warning sirens, a microwave communications network and highway reader boards. 
The desert chemical depot at its peak held 13,600 tons of chemical weapons. Depot officials say many of the jobs may shift to Kentucky or Colorado, two states that have yet to begin munitions destruction. 
 

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.