Cuts instead of elimination for the Savannah River Ecology Lab:

Thanks to the joint efforts of Georgia and South Carolina Congress members, next year’s funding for the University’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) will be reduced instead of completely eliminated.

All funding for the SREL was cut last February when President Bush announced his budget request for the 2006 fiscal year.

The laboratory, located in South Carolina, studies the environmental effects of the nuclear weapons site it was built on, and has been operated by the University since 1951, according to a University press release.