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(1) Three 19-inch racks and associated equipment,

(2) One desk and chair,

(3) One file cabinet,

(4) One equipment cabinet for test equipment, and

(5) One table to hold two TV displays, keyboard, printer, and a terminal.

A minimum of 250 square feet of floor space would be needed. It is estimated that 15,000 btu/h of air-conditioning and a total of 60 amperes of 110 volt service would be required. Please advise us of the possibility of providing this space on a permanent basis beginning in the fourth quarter of 1979, if needed.

Digital data communications requires use of both cables, one for inbound data and one for outbound data. It is our understanding that the inbound cable has not been activated. Since H.I.S. plans to begin using the cable in the main House office buildings in the fourth quarter of 1979, it will be necessary to activate the inbound cable and to extend the full cable network to HOBA #2 so that offices there can have service. Please take the necessary steps to have the full cable system operational by the end of the third quarter of 1979.

As you are well aware, the House cable system will require a concerted effort to maintain its quality and integrity. This includes both the physical and electrical aspects. The Advisory Committee wishes your office to continue to assume the responsibility for the installation and maintenance of the cable and electrical components and to take the necessary steps to ensure the quality of the radio frequency characteristics of the medium. In this way we can ensure that the cable system meets all of the needs of the House for both video and digital data transmission. Please advise us of your plans for meeting these needs.

JAMES MADISON BUILDING OCCUPANCY

Mr. BENJAMIN. You indicate that early partial occupancy of the James Madison Library Building is to commence in March, 1979. On February 14, Mr. Carroll testified regarding space possession commencing March 1st. However, he testified, occupancy, as versus possession, would not begin until August. Has there been a change? Mr. WHITE. No; except for a 15-day change. We are now going to take possession of the fifth floor on March 15, rather than March 1, and then the fourth floor a month after that, and the third floor a month after that, and the second floor a month after that. Once we take possession, the library will, of course, have to come in and install the carpeting and bring in their furniture, and so on, before they can bring the operating people in. It is my understanding they intend to bring people in around July or August, and that schedule is still intact at this point.

Mr. BENJAMIN. You take it over from the contractor, one floor at a time, supposedly starting March the 1st, or thereabouts-February 21st was the date given us-at that time what do you do for security?

SECURITY DURING OCCUPANCY TRANSITION

Mr. WHITE. There was a meeting held which resulted in the conclusion that at that time the Capitol Police, who are presently involved since it is now Capitol grounds, will retain jurisdiction until such time as the library actually occupies it. Once they occupy it, the library special police force will be in charge, except for the portion of the building still under construction, which will be under the jurisdiction of the Capitol Police.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Is there a transition where you have both Capitol Police and library police?

Mr. WHITE. Yes.

Mr. BENJAMIN. What is that transition period?

Mr. WHITE. That transition will be starting in July or August, until final completion of the building, which will be sometime in 1980; I don't know that we have the exact date.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Are you telling us as they physically occupy it for work, then they will provide their own security force?

CIRCULATION RESTRICTIONS

Mr. WHITE. That is correct. And we will restrict their occupancy and capacity to circulate in the building to those areas which we have taken from the contractor. Otherwise, they may be involved in wandering through the construction activities and we could anticipate a number of difficulties that could arise under those conditions, including safety and other things.

So the Capitol Police will retain jurisdiction over those areas which are still under construction.

Mr. BENJAMIN. How many police are you going to use during the time of this beneficial possession until the time of occupancy? Mr. WHITE. I think it will be minimal. I don't know the exact number, but I could provide it for the record. It will be less than we have now, because now there are police for the whole building. Mr. BENJAMIN. That is 24 hours?

Mr. WHITE. Yes, but they don't patrol the building-the contractor also has the obligation, of course, for security and safety on the site, so it is provided for 24 hours.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Would you provide that for the record?

Mr. WHITE. I will.

[The information follows:]

Assuming that beneficial occupancy will occur on or about July 1, 1979, Copyright Services are the first Library Program Unit scheduled to occupy the building. This would mean that the Library of Congress Special Police must begin performing their duties in the James Madison Memorial Building concurrently.

The Library's collections are of inestimable value. The responsibility for protecting these collections from loss or multilation by theft, fire, unauthorized access or national disaster rests with its Special Police Force. These collections are not stored in vaults or locked repositories. Rather, they are in active and open use by the staff, researchers, and the scholarly community.

The collections are found in a wide range of formats; such as books, magazines, journals, pamphlets, newspapers, prints, photographs, manuscripts, maps, posters, and drawings. Integral to these collections are cassettes, motion pictures, videotapes and other audiovisual material.

Library of Congress police officers must be trained to quickly and accurately recognize and distinguish Library material from similar material and possessions being taken from the buildings by visitors and staff. The multiplicity of markings, passes, identification systems, authorization procedures and physical security systems necessary to protect these collections are the subject matter of internal training programs applicable only to the Special Police Force. The need for the confidentiality of these systems is obvious. It would, therefore, be unreasonable and costly to train or expect the U.S. Capitol Police Force to provide this service.

The Library anticipates that twenty-five police officers will be available for duty on July 6, 1979, an additional twenty-five would be available on August 10, 1979, and the final component of twenty-six officers would be available and trained by September 14, 1979. At that time, the Library would be able to assume complete protective coverage of the James Madison Memorial Building. It will, by that time, occupy the great majority of the facility.

COMPLETION OF POWER PLANT MODIFICATIONS

Mr. BENJAMIN. Last year, you testified that Phase V of the enlargement of the Capitol Power Plant would be completed by May 1979 and final completion date would be December 1979. Now you advise that Phase V will be completed in September 1980 and final project completion date is December 1980. In 1977, you testified that the plant was progressing almost in accordance with schedule.

Would you explain the delay?

Mr. WHITE. First, let me say, Mr. Chairman, that the provision of chilled water which will be necessary for the occupancy of the library_building will be accomplished in time for that purpose. Mr. BENJAMIN. You indicated that earlier. How about the steam? Mr. WHITE. Steam hasn't been affected at all. This new addition is to provide only additional cooling. The heating capacity is not a part of this new addition. We have had enough capacity in the existing plant.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Somewhere in your previous testimony, when you explained the need for this additional capacity, you also indicated that you were going to be able to provide heat, if we are talking about the same thing, to the James Madison Library Building, but you talked about by mid-1979, if I recall correctly, and one of my concerns is, what is going to happen now that the date of completion has been moved back again?

Mr. WHITE. So far as I know, the date of completion hasn't changed during the last year.

Mr. J. RAYMOND CARROLL. I don't think it has been changed.

Mr. BENJAMIN. It is in the prepared statement of the Architect, submitted in the record of last year, and he said at that time the completion date was in 1979, Phase V, September of 1979, and total completion termination date in December of 1979. The statement now is almost a year later.

DEFINITION OF COMPLETION

Mr. J. RAYMOND CARROLL. I think it is just a matter of what is meant by completion. We obviously can't turn the cooling system on and operate it and complete it, in the sense of operation, until the spring and summer, when we actually have a load on it. We expected to complete the two buildings by September thru December of 1978, but we didn't expect to complete the total equipment contract (Phase IV) until the summer and fall 1979.

Mr. WHITE. Excuse me, Ray. We did say in our prepared statement that it would be completed in December of 1979, and that is Phase V.

Mr. BENJAMIN. You said Phase V, for all remaining miscellaneous, by May, 1979. The final completion date is December 1979. Mr. WHITE. That is correct, and we now say December, 1980. Mr. BENJAMIN. That is right.

Mr. WHITE. I have no ready answer for that. I can't tell you at the moment, but I would be glad to supply it for the record. Mr. BENJAMIN. Please. We are interested in that, particularly since your earlier testimony was everything is going along just fine.

[The information follows:]

PREVIOUS FORECAST OPTIMISTIC

The previous detailed justifications have been overly optimistic and are in error with respect to the Phase V dates of completion. The work to be accomplished under Phase V was deferred until the completion of the Phase IV work because the crowded and limited site did not allow this work to proceed simultaneously with the Phase III and Phase IV work. It is estimated that all of the work remaining under Phase V will require three more years to complete.

The construction of the Refrigeration Plant Building and of the Operations Building (Phase III) is essentially completed. The installation of piping and refrigeration and electrical equipment in these buildings (Phase IV) is proceeding to the point where final testing will take place in June 1979 and the refrigeration equipment will be run-in and put into full service during July and August 1979. It is intended that the additional cooling capacity will be available to coincide with the occupancy of the Madison Building. Thereafter, additional miscellaneous improvements to the coal and oil-fired boiler plant and the central control system (Phase V) will be designed and installed over a period of approximately three years. There are sufficient funds in this account to accomplish all of the work intended.

Steam heat is presently supplied to Madison Building, under the control of this office, since jurisdiction for this purpose was assumed from the Contractor on December 8, 1978.

COMPLETION OF EQUIPMENT

Mr. WHITE. Some of this may have to do-we will provide it for the record, of course-but some of these final completion items really have to do with noise abatement and dust collectors, and so

on, which maybe are delayed in such a way that doesn't cause the plant not to be operable.

Mr. J. RAYMond Carroll. We may not finish those for another three to five years, in fact.

Mr. BENJAMIN. In the English language, when you say final termination date, it means you have it complete. To architects, it may mean something else. And, if so, I will concede it. But I am trying to get the English language in this record, and I assume to most of us in the room the termination date means that is final. Mr. J. RAYMOND CARROLL. We may have been in error somehow, because certainly it was never intended that the whole project would be finished by this time. There is no way it would have been done. It was only this part of the total project having to do with the furnishing of the chilled water and the two buildings that was to have been completed.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Please furnish it for the record, and will steam heat be furnished to the James Madison Library Building by September, 1979?

Mr. J. RAYMOND CARROLL. Yes sir.

PROJECT COST

Mr. BENJAMIN. There is considerable testimony that as of 1976, you received $18.6 million. In 1975, you indicated that the $18.6 million appropriation would need another $6.6 million. In 1976, you revised this to an additional $8 million, or a total of $26.6 million. In 1977, you were provided an additional $12 million, for a total of $30.6 million, the full authorization.

Can we expect that the project will be completed without any increase in authorization and additional appropriation?

Mr. WHITE. We can definitely say yes, Mr. Chairman, because, at this stage, with not all of it finally under contract, we still have $9 million available. We have been fortunate in being able to have bids come in under that which we estimated, and of that $9 million, we need $3-4 million known at this point as it relates to dust collectors on oil-fired equipment, and such things. We think we are adequately funded.

Mr. BENJAMIN. Without reprogramming any money?
Mr. WHITE. Without reprogramming any money.

5 PERCENT REDUCTION IN FY 1979

Mr. BENJAMIN. In the 1979 bill, a 5 percent reduction was applied. Where did you take this cut? In what amounts? And what was the effect on your program? How much was the total?

Mr. WHITE. Three million thirty-four thousand dollars, and we took it from several locations, Mr. Chairman, largely from projects which were ongoing so that we would, in accordance with the law, not interfere with the ongoing needs of the Congress, but, at the same time, be able to defer certain items. We have a list of them here, which I can

Mr. BENJAMIN. Please supply them to us.

Mr. WHITE. All right. Fifty-five thousand dollars, which was withheld from the Senate Office Buildings; we have $105,000 from the program for energy conservation from the Rayburn Building;