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Nature 419, 423 (3 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419423a

Residents force review of biodefence lab

Rex Dalton

Officials charged with distributing billions of dollars for US biodefence research are keeping a nervous eye on a small town in Montana, where residents have delayed a project to build a new pathogen-research laboratory.A summer of discontent in Hamilton led the town's Rocky Mountain Laboratories to order a lengthy environmental assessment of its plan to build a Biosafety Level Four (BSL-4) complex.