Future of Plum Island Still at Standstill

Southold Town and other groups interested in preserving Plum Island's wildlife are still waiting for a draft environmental report relating to the island's proposed sale, according to an article published in Connecticut's The Day website.

Since Congress first approved the sale of the site in 2008 with the stipulation that a new site for Plum Island's animal disease research center would be found, the U.S. General Services Administration has supposedly been preparing an Environmental Impact Statement. A site near Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., was identified as a possible location for a new lab in 2009.

"We've been told so many different things about the timing of that," Lanza told The Day of the draft impact statement.

Read the full story on The Day here.