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By Emily Ford, Salisbury Post

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — President Obama's proposed budget does not include more money for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new nutrition center in Kannapolis.

But U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell (D-NC), who helped secure a $1 million earmark last year to launch the center at the N.C. Research Campus, said he's confident that he can find additional funding for the project.

"While I was disappointed it wasn't in the budget, I wasn't surprised," said Kissell, who was in Kannapolis Tuesday speaking to Japanese scientists touring the Research Campus.

Although the Kannapolis center doesn't appear in Obama's proposed fiscal 2011 budget, up to three USDA researchers will join the Research Campus this spring, marking the first federal presence at the $1.5 billion life sciences complex.

The USDA will establish a Human Nutrition Research Center in Kannapolis, the first of its kind in the Southeast.

For more details, check out the Salisbury Post report.

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