Comparison of workload performed and costs, 1957-59, among the following elements, is presented in exhibit C, page 9:

(1) Transportation of equipment from location at time of selection to NIER processing and storage center. Also includes some transportation in connection with lease activities.

(2) Material receipt and handling. This includes handling of new selections, handling of leased items in and out, handling of equipment within facility, transfers, and disposals.

(3) Processing. This includes analytical testing of operating condition of the equipment and preparation for long-term storage.

(4) Machinery upkeep. Includes operation of dehumidification system, periodic equipment inspection, and reprocessing of equipment to extent necessary. (5) Building maintenance. Maintenance and upkeep of storage facility. (6) Plans and specifications. Covers cost for additional dehumidification of

storage space and additional processing area.

(7) Facility preparation and alteration. Includes major repair and alteration of existing and new facilities, and preparation of new processing areas. (8) Dehumidification of space. Includes preparation of space and cost of dehumidification equipment.

(9) Handling and testing equipment.

Additional travel to storage and other sites will be required under the expanded program. An increase of $6,000 in the limitation placed on such expenses in the regular 1959 act is requested.

EXHIBIT B.-OE, PBS National industrial equipment reserve analysis of inventory changes 1957, 1958, and 1959

"For an additional amount for 'Construction, public buildings', $323,000, to emain available until expended."

GENERAL STATEMENT

"The appropriation of $2,125,000, made available by the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1958, for the construction of border station facilities at five ocations for the use of the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department, and Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, is insufficient o complete the work due to increases in site costs at San Ysidro, Calif., and Madawaska, Maine. This proposed supplemental appropriation is needed to

complete acquisition of the sites for the facilities to be constructed." H. Doc. 394, 85th Cong.)

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A comprehensive study was made of the physical requirements at each location, in an attempt to program all 5 projects within the amount available. This study disclosed that minimum facilities cannot be provided at all 5 border stations within the amount appropriated due primarily to substantial increases in site costs at San Ysidro, Calif., and Madawaska, Maine, over those included in the original estimates for those projects.

An additional amount of $323,000 will be needed to acquire the sites selected for location of the facilities to be constructed.

Design contracts have been awarded for four border stations and negotiations for the award of a design contract for the Madawaska project will be started

soon.

JUSTIFICATION

1. Border station, San Ysidro, Calif., $258,000

The present border station facilities were placed in operation in 1933 and are inadequate to handle traffic at this important point of entry from Mexico. Tourist traffic from the United States to the Mexican Tijuana-Ensenada area has grown rapidly in the past few years. First-class restaurants and motels are springing up on both sides of the border and property values have increased accordingly. Inspection lanes are to be expanded from 4 to 19 lanes to accommodate a continuing increase in traffic which at times backs up on the Mexican side of the border for as much as 3 miles.

The additional facilities are to be located on the west side of the State highway, directly opposite the present Government-owned border station. The estimated cost of the site was originally placed at $200,000. Based on a recent appraisal, the cost of the site will total $458,000, exceeding the original estimate by $258,000, which is included in this estimate.

2. Border station, Madawaska, Maine, $65,000

The lack of adequate facilities on this international highway results in a bottleneck causing traffic to back up across the river into the Canadian town of Edmundston. This station is an important inland port of entry on the Canadian border. Construction of additional facilities to meet the increasing flow of traffic is urgent.

The project originally contemplated the erection of a border station on a site to be acquired from the Fraser Paper Co. Due to possible future extension of their plant the Fraser Co. vigorously objected to the Government taking any of their property as a site for additional border facilities.

The only other appropriate location for the new facilities will require moving the railroad station and tracks of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. The cost of acquiring the alternate site is estimated to be $75,000, exceeding the original site cost estimate by $65,000 which is included in this estimate.

SUMMARY OF THE ESTIMATE

Following is a summary of the estimated cost for the five projects included in the program: