[CPEO-MEF] BIO-DEFENSE, REUSE: "NY, Conn. Lawmakers Try to Halt Plum Island [NY] Sale"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NY, Conn. Lawmakers Try to Halt Plum Island Sale


By FRANK ELTMAN
Associated Press
July 16, 2013

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Some federal lawmakers want to stop the sale of New  
York's Plum Island, home to the only national government laboratory  
studying diseases harmful to livestock and other animals.

Congress voted in 2009 to close the aging lab and move operations to  
Kansas State University. President Barack Obama's latest budget  
includes $714 million for the project, and Kansas officials are  
selling bonds to pay for the new lab.

But lawmakers from New York and Connecticut announced legislation  
Tuesday to stop the sale, saying it is unnecessary and uneconomical,  
and the island lab is worth preserving.

...

For the entire article, see
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ny-lawmaker-seeks-halt-sale-plum- 
island-lab-19675844#.UeWRWKzlfmt

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