Rail transfer station-- not in HoCo, please?

I haven't weighed in on the proposed CSX rail transfer station saga that's been going on for some time, because I wanted to see if there's really any economic benefit to Howard County (or any jurisdiction) in having it there.  Well, turns out there isn't, I've determined.  So, let's put it somewhere else.  Elkridge has a lot of industrial property, but it seems to be that this transfer facility would be even harder-core industrial than Elkridge should have.

So I like this idea by the Howard County Council to do an independent enviornmental analysis to aid in the determination of the suitability of the Howard County site. 

I consider this project to be a value engineering step by the council.  The timing of this process is such that the National Enviornmental Policy Act review can't be evaluated separately by the county, so the next best thing is that the county do it's own thing.  The advantage is that if the county does the review, who knows what revelations that review may uncover that the federal review won't?  I kind of trust local expertise here.