· The study concluded that the needs assessment used to determine the size of the 
facility was based on outdated documents.
· The proposed lab would include services already offered by the State Public Health Laboratory across the street.
· While staffing has increased, the actual number of cases submitted to the current crime lab is about the same as it was 15 years ago; the proposal is to make the new lab four times larger.
· The site chosen for the new lab required wetland mitigation. The site is still valuable, and could be returned to the Municipality of Anchorage.
· The new lab was designed to include capabilities to respond to cases rarely encountered in Alaska, despite it being more cost effective to send those rare cases to FBI-approved labs who routinely handle them.
· The future costs of the project have the potential to pull funding away from other important responsibilities.
