YPSILANTI TWP., MI — Ypsilanti Township’s attorney called the University of Michigan’s statement that no federal funds have been committed to the Los Alamos National Laboratory project “misleading.”
UM president Domenico Grasso confirmed in a response to U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell dated Thursday, Oct. 8, that while the university and Los Alamos executed a memorandum of understanding on the $1.2 billion supercomputing facility, the agreement creates no legal obligations and includes no federal funding guarantees.
Township attorney Doug Winters questioned this, saying it would be “foolish for anyone to really believe that Los Alamos is not going to contribute significantly.”…