RICHLAND -- Another $25 million for building replacement research facilities for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is expected this week when President Bush signs a bill that includes money requested by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray.

The money is coming from the Department of Homeland Security to help build a new lab in north Richland to replace offices and labs being lost in the cleanup of the 300 Area at Hanford near the Columbia River.

"This is new funding," said Matt McAlvanah, press secretary for Murray, D-Wash., who also is a member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.

PNNL spokesman Greg Koller said the money will help meet the goal of having replacement research facilities built by 2011.

"We're grateful to both Senator Murray and DHS for securing the funding. It, along with money from DOE's Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, allows construction of the Physical Sciences Facility to remain on schedule," Koller said Tuesday.

McAlvanah said Murray promised this summer to get the $25 million included in legislation to help preserve 800 jobs that are tied to replacing the lab.

Those jobs are at risk because Hanford cleanup will eliminate the facilities where the researchers and support staff work. Nearly half of the lab's facilities are in Hanford's 300 Area, and it must make way for the on-going cleanup of the site.

"Maintaining the research and development infrastructure will allow PNNL to continue to support national security, homeland security and scientific projects for our country," Murray said in June.

Koller said three federal agencies are involved in helping pay for the $224 million replacement laboratory as a multi-year project.

Homeland Security promised to put in nearly $56 million, while the Department of Energy's Office of Science has committed to $98.4 million.

And another almost $70 million will come from the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., pushed for the PNNL money in the House.

Koller said the Physical Sciences Facility, the largest of three new federally and privately funded facilities, will have three main buildings -- radiation detection, materials science and technology, and ultra-trace -- as well as a high-bay for research, a laboratory 40 feet below the surface and a radiation portal monitoring test track.

The facility will house about 450 staff who support national security and energy research missions.

Koller said the research will focus on tools and methods for detecting and characterizing radionuclides as part of efforts to halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, unique materials used in advanced energy systems, chemistry and processing for use in basic radiochemistry research, closing nuclear fuel cycles, and for detecting nuclear proliferation.

Koller said Murray has had to work each year to provide funding through the appropriations process to get money from the Department of Homeland Security.

Funding for two other facilities that will be built as part of the new campus for PNNL is coming from private sources.