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Number: 919

For release on February 27, 2009, 4:30:00 PM

Contacts: Karen McNulty Walsh, (631) 344-8350 or Peter Genzer, (631) 344-3174

Governor's Office Contact: Errol Cockfield | errol.cockfield@chamber.state.ny.us | 212.681.4640 | 518.474.8418
NYPA Contact: Christine Pritchard |christine.pritchard@nypa.gov

Governor Paterson Announces Plans to Support Brookhaven National Laboratory with NYPA Power Allocation

Low-Cost Electricity Would Support Plans for High-Intensity Light Beam Project and Hundreds of New Jobs

Governor David A. Paterson today announced an agreement to allocate low-cost electricity for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) that will support the construction of a high-intensity light beam project known as the One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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