CHEYENNE - Gov. Dave Freudenthal has signed legislation to remove a potential bureaucratic hurdle in bringing a supercomputer center to Cheyenne.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research and its managing organization are in a partnership with the University of Wyoming, the state of Wyoming and the University of Colorado at Boulder on the project.

They will build a new supercomputing data center for climate and atmospheric research west of Cheyenne.

The center is expected to open in late 2010 or early 2011 at a total cost of about $60 million. The bill was among 15 the governor signed into law on Monday.