17 sites compete for bio lab

Here are the sites in the running for the bioterrorism lab:

University of California/Lawrence Livermore National Lab (near Tracy, Calif.)

Heartland BioAgro Consortium (two sites in Leavenworth County, Kan., and Manhattan, Kan.)

Oklahoma State University Consortium (USDA/Agriculture Research Service Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Okla.)

Kentucky and Tennessee NBAF Consortium (Pulaski County)

Georgia Consortium for Health and Agro-Security (two sites in Athens, Ga.)

Mid-Atlantic Bio-Ag Defense Consortium (USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Md.)

Wisconsin Consortium (University of Wisconsin-Madison site at the Kegonsa Research Facility near Madison, Wis.)

Gulf States Bio and Agro-Defense Consortium (two sites: Flora Industrial Park in Madison County, Miss., and East Metropolitan Center in Brandon, Miss.)

Texas Biological and Agro-Defense Consortium (three sites in San Antonio, Texas)

Texas A&M University and the NBAF Consortium (Texas A&M Research Park, Bryan/College Station, Texas)

University of Missouri at Columbia NBAF Consortium (farm in Boone County, Mo.)

North Carolina Consortium for the NBAF (Umstead Research Farm in Granville and Durham counties, N.C.)

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security