• Feb. 6, 1942- President Franklin D. Roosevelt withdrew an initial 126,720 acres of Utah land from the public domain for use by the war department.

• Dugway Proving Ground was officially activated March 1, 1942 with testing underway by summer.

• Over the years, the proving ground underwent various name changes and periods of deactivation and reactivation.

• Dugway Proving Ground now covers 798,855 acres.

• It employs about 1,200 military, government civilians and support contractors.

• Primary mission is testing US and Allied chemical and biological defense systems and performing nuclear, biological, and chemical contamination survivability testing of defense materiel.

• Dugway Proving Ground has several major test facilities. The one mentioned in John Hollenhorst's report, that replaced the Baker lab, is called the Life Sciences Test Facility.

• 32,000 square foot facility.

• Came on line in late 1997.

• Supports the testing of biological detectors, protective clothing and equipment, and decontamination systems and their effects on materials. Also supports field tests with biological simulants and smoke and obscurants, as well as environmental analysis and monitoring for all Dugway Proving Groud testing.

(Source: DPG)