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With a year-end deadline for the installation of explosives detection machines at all airports looming, some airports are waiting for a go-ahead on renovation efforts to make room for the machines.

"As we sit here, we don't know what to build or where to build it," Jim Wilding, president of the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority told The Associated Press. The WMAA runs Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports. "There's a whole host of very complicated, very expensive decisions yet to be made," he continued.

Transportation Department inspector general Kenneth Mead estimates the cost of renovations at airports will cost more than $2 billion in order to house 2,000-plus machines.

The problem for the airports is that there is little time to complete renovations and have the machines installed by the mandated deadline.

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