Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is trying to include $25 million for new construction at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations bill.

Murray, who is on the Home-land Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said in a statement Thursday that the money will help PNNL with its Capability Replacement Laboratory Project for new facilities related to cleanup in the Hanford 300 Area along the Columbia River.

The money will help PNNL, which is managed by Battelle Memorial Institute for the Department of Energy, in building the Physical Sciences Laboratory that will house offices and labs to do research for the DOE's Department of Homeland Security.

The full Senate has yet to vote on the bill.