Good way to end 2010.
Here's the story as reported in NewsWest...
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - Some 186 chimpanzees will remain at a federal facility in New Mexico for now.
The Albuquerque Journal reported in a copyright story Friday that the National Institutes of Health informed Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday the chimps will not be transferred to a San Antonio, Texas, facility until the National Academy of Sciences reviews policies on using chimpanzees in biomedical research.
Richardson spokeswoman Alarie Ray-Garcia says that's expected to postpone the transfer for about two years.
A federal contract covering the chimps expires next year. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine.
Animal welfare activists protested the transfer.
The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001.