John Kerr

Other contenders for the lab included sites in Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina.Perry and the Texas Bio and Agro-Defense Consortium, a business group, complain that even though the site selection process started in January 2006, DHS gave no indication until February 2008 that financial incentives provided by state and local governments could affect the site selection.Texas, which has a Legislature that only meets every two years, was not in session last year, unlike the Kansas Legislature, Perry and TBAC wrote in letters to DHS."A process that asks states to put together $100 million-plus packages within a month — while some legislatures are not in session to assist with such appropriations — is fundamentally inequitable," Perry said in his letter to DHS.TBAC Chairman John Kerr called the time limitations "fundamentally unfair."
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TBAC Chairman John Kerr called the time limitations "fundamentally unfair."

TBAC Chairman John Kerr called the time limitations "fundamentally unfair."

Building the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kan., would be "grossly irresponsible, the equivalent of playing Russian roulette with Mother Nature," due to the frequency of tornadoes in the state, said John Kerr, chairman of the Texas Biological and Agro-Defense Consortium.

statement by John Kerr, Chairman of the Texas Bio & Agro-Defense
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- John Kerr, Chairman Texas Bio & Agro-Defense Consortium

Perez joined Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, Bexar County Commissioner Sergio "Chico" Rodriguez, Councilwoman Delicia Herrera, and John Kerr, Chairman of the Texas Bio Agro-Defense Coalition, to announce that an official letter of comment has been sent to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the recommended location for the NBAF.
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"Homeland Security violated federal bidding regulations when it changed the requirements for bids late in the process - and made it virtually impossible for Texas to put together a reasonable plan," said Kerr.

San Antonio leaders said the last minute change in the site selection criteria and the imposition of clearly unreasonable time limitations were fundamentally unfair and violated federally mandated standards. "TBAC is confident that it offers the suporior site for the NBAF under the original critiera," said Kerr.

TBAC Chairman John Kerr called the time limitations "fundamentally unfair."

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TBAC Chairman John Kerr called the time limitations "fundamentally unfair."

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by John Kerr
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- John Kerr, Chairman Texas Bio & Agro-Defense Consortium

SOURCE Texas Bio & Agro-Defense Consortium