Utica Observer-Dispatch, Feb. 7, 2007 ROME, NY - Mayor James Brown plans to ask the federal government to reconsider the city's 2003 application for a $200 million federal bio-defense laboratory now that neighbors of one of the sites chosen are battling the plan. Rome's Griffiss Business and Technology Park lobbied hard for the lab four years ago, hoping to bring hundreds of well-paying research jobs to the Mohawk Valley. But the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease instead chose Boston University Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to host two labs.