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The federal agency’s Human Nutrition Research Centerd would have only a handful of employees to But local officials envision aneventual 150- to 200-employeew operation with a $25 milliom annual budget. Perhaps more important, the USDA center woul d give the federal government a presence onthe 350-acre research campus. Area leaderw believe that will open the door to furtherinvolvemen — and funding — by U.S. research agencies. “Bhy establishing the research station atthe N.C.
Research almost overnight we can have themost cutting-edge research on human nutritionm going on in the federal government due to all the resourcesz that are there,” says Leanne chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Larr Kissell (D-N.C.), who requested the appropriation. “The whole idea of doingg this is to integrate the federa l research with the research goingon there.”