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To: Dave Press who wrote (29151)	3/23/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Dave, >>>You guys are all missing the mark. Because of environmental restrictions there is no way you can get a chip plant built. NY is in a non-attainment zone!! The northeast is deadman's land for most projects<<< OK, got it. I think I moved to the right (left coast) part of the country. Tony

To: Dave Press who wrote (29151)	3/23/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

>> You guys are all missing the mark. Because of environmental restrictions there is no way you can get a chip plant built. NY is in a non-attainment zone!! The northeast is deadman's land for most projects<< Except that IBM has had one of the largest cleanrooms in the world in East Fishkill for years. I would guess that the X-ray project will be using empty space in the existing facility (which is huge and has a lot of empty space), not building a new building. All the environmental finagling has therefore already been done. As far as it being impossible to get plants built in the NE, what about DEC's (now Intel's) Alpha fab in Massachusetts? What about National Semi's huge facility in Maine? What about White Oak in Virginia? All built within the last 5 years. Katherine