If the scrapyard (vs. the U.S. Navy) is paying for the ~70,000 ton, 325-meter-long former aircraft carrier to be towed ~16,000 miles, from Washington (state) to Texas - it's too big for the Panama Canal - then they are actually paying quite a few million dollars for it.
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This ship also is 48 years old, so it will have asbestos in all kinds of places (probably even more so than a civilian ship would. Preventing the spreading of fire is fairly essential on a warship) Separating that from the valuable metals can be costly.
It was in service for 48 years. It was built in the late 1950's, so it is even much older.