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Delegate Allen Louderback
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His made reference to his trip that day to Richmond where he lobbied with Governor Warner’s administration in an attempt to protect the Page County laboratory that conducts water testing and communicable disease analyses. Mr. Louderback said that the administration plans to close the lab, and that they expect to save $166,000 per year by so doing. The lab services thirty counties and, if it is closed, samples from those counties will have to be sent, by courier, to the laboratory in Richmond. Mr. Louderback said that
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