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{"AB86BAD9-5056-A066-6014-8E81612DF10D":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"AB86BAD9-5056-A066-6014-8E81612DF10D","title":"Save University of Rochester's Laser Lab","summary":"Rochester, NY","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"March 5, 2018","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/save-university-of-rochesters-laser-lab","city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe","lat":43.1130465,"lng":-77.6320202,"description":"<p class=\"wordsection1\">On March 3, 2018 U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced a three-pronged push to protect and expand the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). Schumer’s plan to protect the University of Rochester’s Laser Lab includes: first calling on Congress to include $75 million in federal funding for LLE in the FY 2018 spending bill. Second, Schumer called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to review and approve a new 5-year Cooperative Agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and LLE. Finally, Schumer invited NNSA Administrator Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty to tour the Laser Lab and see one of the key institutions vital to the NNSA’s mission: the OMEGA Laser Facility. Schumer’s three-pronged push is a continuation of his multi-year effort of advocating for increased funding for LLE, which will help the University of Rochester further the critical work being done at its lab. Schumer said the Laser Lab, which the administration proposed closing down in three years in the Fiscal Year 2019 budget, is a hub of technological pursuits and therefore he promised to fight any proposed cuts and to keep the lab fully operational. </p>"}}

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