Processing a loan application would ordinarily take months, because an environmental evaluation is required.
Using information provided by the committee, the Chinese government released a final environmental evaluation in August.
The American representative, Jose Fourquet, abstained largely because of concern over the adequacy of an environmental evaluation of the project, people with knowledge of the vote said.
Mr. Williams said consultants would now conduct an environmental evaluation of the plan, which could take six months to a year.
The Naugatuck Valley Project worked to get an environmental evaluation of the site and found it to be less contaminated than was earlier feared.
In a press release, Cern's director general Robert Aymar said, "With this report, the Laboratory has fulfilled every safety and environmental evaluation necessary to ensure safe operation of this exciting new research facility".
The committee's most significant discussions focused on the draft environmental evaluation that was prepared by China for the construction and operation of its new station, Dome A, in East Antarctica.
"I remember coming to this show in the '90s and early 2000s and you had waterfalls, bathtub displays, lots of bells and whistles," said Joe McGinley of the LEW Corporation, an environmental evaluation firm in Mountainside.
Here, both mechanical investigations and life cycle assessment as a method of environmental evaluation are used.
Her major interests are related to different methods of environmental evaluation of ecosystem services.
The environmental evaluation of RM was performed using Toxicology Characteristic Leaching (TCLP) and diffusion tests in mortars.
