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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was selected Tuesday to host one of three U.S. Department of Energy bioenergy research centers, each receiving $125 million in funding over five years.
The lab anticipates benefiting from Oak Ridge's supercomputing center and a proposed 5-million-a-gallon-per-year ethanol demonstration project proposed by Gov. Phil Bredesen.
The $40 million ethanol facility, which will concentrate on ethanol production from switchgrass and poplar trees, is funded by the state beginning next month and is expected to be operating in as little as two years.
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