DLA Disposition Services
Headquartered at the Hart–Dole–Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan, the organization provides personnel to support the US military in 16 overseas deployments, including Iraq and Afghanistan, 2 US territories (Guam and Puerto Rico) and 41 states.[1] A congressional report in 1972 recommended centralizing the disposal of United States Department of Defense (DoD) property for better accountability.[1][2] DLA Disposition Services has a legal responsibility for US military waste even after it has been passed on to private contractors.[3] In 2010 an investigation by The Times newspaper in five Iraqi provinces discovered that hazardous waste from US bases was being dumped locally by subcontracted waste firms rather than transported back to the US by ship via the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr or recycled in purpose built facilities in northern and western Iraq, as required by DoD rules."[4] Brigadier General Stephen R. Lanza, the US military spokesman in Iraq, said: "We take this issue very seriously and want to solve the problem.