[CPEO-MEF] BIOLABS, REUSE: Plum Island Animal Disease Center (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Government assessing potential fate of Plum Island
Private sale for redevelopment an option after research facility is 
moved to Kansas

By Judy Benson
The Day (CT)
March 19, 2010


The federal government will study the potential environmental impacts of 
selling Plum Island to a private owner for redevelopment or keeping the 
840-acre island in federal hands after the research lab for highly 
infectious animal diseases is moved to Manhattan, Kan.

In a notice published Thursday in the Federal Register, the General 
Services Administration announced that it would undertake an 
Environmental Impact Statement to guide the anticipated sale of Plum 
Island and a 9.5-acre support facility in Orient Point, N.Y.

The island, located in Long Island Sound about 1.5 miles from Orient 
Point, has been the site of the high-security Plum Island Animal Disease 
Center since 1954. It is the only national lab for research into 
foot-and-mouth virus, which is highly contagious to livestock, as well 
as classical swine fever, vesicular stomatitis virus and foreign animal 
diseases. It was run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture until 2003, 
when it was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/article/20100319/NWS01/303199856/-1/NWS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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