FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plum Island, off the coast of New York's Long Island shows is shown in an aerial photo. The federal government plans to sell the 840-acre island off the eastern tip of Long Island and move research operations to a $1.14 billion laboratory in Kansas but environmentalists in both Connecticut and New York are questioning the wisdom of the sale. (AP Photo/USDA-ARS, File)