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The Oregon PHL/DEQ Laboratories are the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) laboratories located in a single building in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. DHS operates the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL), and the DEQ operates their Laboratory and Environmental Assessment Division at the site. The laboratories previously were located at Portland State University, moving to the new location near Cornelius Pass Road and the Sunset Highway (U.S. Route 26) in northeast Hillsboro in 2007. Built at a cost of $35 million, the laboratories cover on a site. DEQ’s lab is an all hazards facility used primarily for testing air and water samples from around the state. The OSPHL operates a biosafety level 3 lab onsite. OSPHL mainly conducts screenings of newborn baby blood samples from a six state region, and testing for and investigations of infectious diseases. The combined facility has around 160 employees. ==History== In 1903, the state government created the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory.〔(About Us. ) Oregon State Public Health Laboratory. Retrieved on September 1, 2009.〕 The state created State Sanitary Authority in 1938 as part of the State Board of Health, with the Sanitary Authority becoming an independent agency in 1969 as the Department of Environmental Quality.〔(About Us. ) Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Retrieved on September 5, 2009.〕 Originally located at Portland State University in a converted parking garage, the Oregon Department of Human Services’s Public Health Laboratory and the laboratory of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality began lobbying for a new facility in the 1990s.〔〔 The old space had been remodeled in 1977 when the laboratories moved into the space, and was considered outdated and too small. In response to agency efforts, Oregon’s 2002 to 2003 legislature passed an appropriations measure that authorized building a new facility to house the two laboratories. In September 2004, the Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board approved $17.5 million in appropriations towards construction of the new laboratory. Officials hoped to move into a new facility by October 2006.〔 The month following the approval of funding, the Department of Administrative Services purchased a single-level building in Hillsboro’s Techpointe Commons business park near Cornelius Pass Road for $5.5 million to house the labs.〔 They bought the building after the location passed the criteria set up for the facility of being within or 45 minutes of major Portland area hospitals, Portland International Airport, and Oregon Health & Sciences University.〔 Built in 2002, the building had never been occupied and was sold by Schnitzer Investments.〔 Construction on retrofitting the office space into laboratory facilities began in January 2005 by contractor Skanska USA.〔Finnemore, Melody. (April 25, 2008). “PHL/DEQ Analytical Laboratories: (Project team ) & (Project profile” ), Daily Journal of Commerce. Retrieved on September 1, 2009.〕 The new facility was designed by IDC Architects, part of CH2M Hill, who had to expand the facility from the building to better meet the agencies’ need for around and convert it from light industrial use to the heavier uses needed by the labs.〔 In April 2006, the Emergency Board approved over $10 million more for the new facility’s construction and furnishings, with completion then scheduled for May 2007. Construction on the project was completed in December 2007,〔 and the DEQ laboratory moved in later that month followed by the OSPHL in January.〔〔(Oregon DEQ History Timeline. ) Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Retrieved on September 5, 2009.〕 When it opened, the space had grown to and cost a total of $35 million. The building was officially dedicated on January 10, 2008, with local officials such as Hillsboro mayor Tom Hughes and state legislators Mitch Greenlick and David Edwards in attendance. During the swine flu outbreak in 2009 the OSPHL tested samples from possible victims to determine if they had the H1N1 virus. This was a new capability of the new laboratory. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oregon PHL/DEQ Laboratories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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