Anyone here have any information, comments about the perposed Bio Research Lab thats moving from plum Island?

It's been a real moving target. For a while, there was a plan to move it here to Colorado. As you'll see at the end, the current "short list" could put it in one of 18 different locations.



Frankly, having it isolated seems to be an entirely GOOD idea considering what the facility does for a living. I fully understand the NIMBY attitudes many areas have taken!



Various news, in chronological order:



From The Pueblo Chieftan (newspaper, Pueblo, CO) 09/2005:



Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the Plum Island Animal Disease Center -- which studies the most devastating agricultural diseases on a tiny speck in the Atlantic off Long Island, New York -- will be replaced by a new facility that may be located elsewhere. The state's politicians, who oppose expanding the lab's remit but don't want it to close, immediately blasted the proposal. But some scientists say they would welcome leaving the remote, impractical location.



From the-Scientist.com 02/2006:



The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is scouting places to build a $451 million, 500,000 square feet, high-security biolab to replace the 55-year-old animal disease lab it operates on Plum Island, just off the northern tip of Long Island, New York.



From animallab.com 11/2006:



The Plum Island National Disease Lab, currently located on Plum Island, N.Y. - 1.5 miles off the Atlantic seaboard - had been slated to relocate to southeastern Colorado. That plan, however, has now been shelved. Ranchers attending the Colorado Cattlemen's Association conference were told that Bent County had been eliminated as a possible site for the lab.



San Antonio Business Journal, 03/2007:



Now that San Antonio has made the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) short list of possible sites for a new national laboratory that will focus on biological threats to humans and animals, a local group is gearing up for a site visit by federal officials in May.

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Altogether, the government is considering 18 possible sites, including the three in San Antonio. The other sites under consideration are located in California, Kentucky, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and one more in Texas at Texas A%26amp;M University.

Anyone here have any information, comments about the perposed Bio Research Lab thats moving from plum Island?
I think an island is the perfect place for it. It is not a good idea to put a lab that works with foot and and mouth disease and other foreign animal diseases on the main land.