The Rapid City Journal: NSF picks Homestake for national lab site

re: "The National Science Foundation has chosen Homestake gold mine in Lead as the site for a proposed national underground science laboratory, state officials announced today...[snip]...However, construction of the so-called “Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory,” or “DUSEL,” is not guaranteed. The decision announced today means that scientists supporting the Homestake proposal will get up to $15 million over the next three years to develop a full-fledged plan for a lab 7,400 feet underground. / A DUSEL at Homestake could cost $300 million to build, and it would require the approval of the National Science Foundation, the National Science Board, the White House and Congress. That could take years. / But science could begin sooner. Now the state of South Dakota will continue its plan to re-enter the mine, pump our water and start an “interim DUSEL” 4,850 feet underground. Experiments could begin in the interim lab as soon as next year..."...