The federal budget package released Monday afternoon includes language (Division FF, Title V) repealing 2009 and 2012 bills associated with the plan to relocate the animal disease research facility on Plum Island to Manhattan, Kansas. The House and Senate are expected to pass the bill promptly, and the president is expected to sign it. This action will restore the normal disposal procedure for federal property instead of auctioning it off to the highest bidder. Next steps then include ensuring the island is transferred to another federal agency, state, or other body, a process that may take several years. “It is rare in conservation to get a second chance. All too often, a species becomes irretrievably lost to extinction or a forest is irreparably destroyed by development. But Congress, through repeal of the mandate directing the sale of Plum Island, is giving the island a second chance,” said John Turner, spokesperson for the Preserve Plum Island Coalition. “But this seco
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The long-dreaded federal auction of Plum Island has likely been cancelled with the approval by the U.S. Congress Monday night of the 2021 federal spending bill.
The 822-acre federally owned island off Orient Point has long been home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which is being replaced by a new facility in Manhattan, Kansas, which is expected to be fully operational by 2022.
Laws passed by the federal government in 2008 and 2012 had mandated Plum Island be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, and New York and Connecticut lawmakers have been working since to reverse that order. The language in the federal spending bill, championed by Senators Chuck Schumer and Chris Murphy and Congressman Lee Zeldin, repeals both the 2008 and 2012 laws.
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