250-page Henderson Mine plan sent to feds
Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News
Published January 10, 2007 at midnight
Colorado researchers submitted a 250-page proposal - along with nearly 1,000 pages of backup documentation - Tuesday in an effort to bring a $300 million federally funded underground laboratory to Henderson Mine, near Empire.
The documents were sent electronically to the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., at around 2:30 p.m., Colorado State University physicist Robert Wilson said. The deadline was 5 p.m.
"It all went smoothly," Wilson said. "We had people working right through the holidays, putting in many, many hours every day. So it's very satisfying to have it done."
In 2005, Henderson Mine and South Dakota's Homestake Mine beat out six other teams vying for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. If funded by Congress, the lab would host groundbreaking physics, geology and microbiology experiments.
The two finalists were awarded $500,000 apiece from the NSF to prepare conceptual designs, which were submitted in June.
That month, the NSF decided that the next round of the competition - culminating in Tuesday's proposal submission - would be open to all U.S. colleges and universities.
On Tuesday, applicants submitted detailed technical proposals including construction costs, schedules and staffing requirements.
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