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Sep 3, 2008 2:20 pm US/Pacific

$400M School Opens 10 Years Behind Schedule

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A decade behind schedule, a $400 million high school has finally opened in downtown Los Angeles after years of environmental, seismic and legal troubles.

More than 2,000 students streamed into the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center on Wednesday, years after it was planned as an education showplace to relieve overcrowded classrooms.

Much of what was then called the Belmont Learning Center was already constructed before fears grew about toxic gases rising from the old oil field upon which it was built, and an earthquake fault that crosses the site.

Lengthy investigations found no criminal wrongdoing, but in 2003 District Attorney Steve Cooley labeled the project "a public works disaster of biblical proportions."

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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