Reps. Meadows, Accavitti, Amos, Ball, Bauer, Bieda, Booher, Brown, Byrnes, Byrum, Caul, Clack, Clemente, Constan, Corriveau, Cushingberry, Dean, Garfield, Gonzales, Hammon, Hansen, Hopgood, Horn, Huizenga, Johnson, Rick Jones, Robert Jones, Kathleen Law, Leland, Lemmons, Marleau, Mayes, Opsommer, Palmer, Polidori, Rocca, Sak, Simpson, Alma Smith, Spade, Tobocman, Vagnozzi, Valentine, Nitz and Pearce offered the following resolution:

            House Resolution No. 517.

            A resolution congratulating Michigan State University on being selected by the United States Department of Energy to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Whereas, Michigan State University has been a leader in research and cutting-edge technology for over a century; and

Whereas, The United States Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams; and

Whereas, The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will provide research opportunities for an international community of approximately 1,000 university and laboratory scientists, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students; and

Whereas, The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is expected to bring over $1 billion in economic activity to the state of Michigan; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the members of this legislative body congratulate Michigan State University on being selected by the United States Department of Energy to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams; and be it further

Resolved, That the members of this legislative body recognize and congratulate the university for the past and future contributions to the state of Michigan.