In Huntington, officials said they had heard no opposition to the town's proposed $15 million environmental bond.

The deal will be financed through a $1.45 billion environmental bond act that voters approved in 1986.

Problems with malpractice insurance and putting the environmental bond act into effect could have been fixed.

There is another problem with the environmental bond act money.

The $100 million financing would be the town's third environmental bond since 1999, when a $10 million issue was approved.

The town issued two $30 million environmental bonds, in 2001 and 2003, to preserve open space.

Nassau voters will be asked to approve a $50 million environmental bond, the first of its kind in the county.

The town has already spent the $30 million raised by environmental bonds approved four years ago.

That came two years after voters approved a $50 million environmental bond by a similar margin.

"We don't know how you can justify the use of environmental bond act money to develop industry."