The Ministry of National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility of Homeland Security (NBAF), which will be built in Manhattan, Kansas, ran into funding of dam last week when the House of representatives passed a bill denying credit $ 36 million requested by DHS for the first construction phase. The Senate version of the bill approved by a Senate committee spending but still be passed by the Senate, includes money. The House bill proposes instead of $ 5 million for a study on the risks to study foot-and-mouth disease on the continent, which is one of the things NBAF would. That DHS may start construction as planned in 2010 will depend on the final image of funding when the two bills are in conference.
The facility, which the government estimates will cost upward of $ 450 million and take five years to build, is supposed to replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in upstate New York. Some environmentalists have opposed this new laboratory since the beginning of fear that it would be a threat to agriculture, livestock and human health. DHS is also pushing a complaint filed by a consortium Texas this spring, arguing that the agency erred in choosing Manhattan as the site for the plant because there was a considerable risk of a tornado demolished.
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