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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR

FISCAL YEAR 1969

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1968

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 2 p.m., in room 1223, New Senate Office Building, Hon. E. L. Bartlett (chairman) presiding. Present: Senator Bartlett.

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

JAMES MADISON MEMORIAL BUILDING

STATEMENT OF HON. B. EVERETT JORDAN, CHAIRMAN, SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION

JUSTIFICATION

Senator BARTLETT. The subcommittee will come to order. For the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building, $2,800,000 is requested, and I am asking that pages 186-204 be included in the record at this point.

(The justification follows:)

Authorizing legislation

This project is authorized by Public Law 89-260, approved October 19, 1965.

Contract authority

The Authorization Act does not permit contracts to be let or other obligations to be incurred prior to the appropriation of funds therefor, with the result that the full cost of such contracts and obligations must be appropriated before the contracts and obligations may be incurred.

Limit of cost of project

Public Law 89-260 fixes the limit of cost of the project at--. Amount of authorization appropriated to date: An appropriation for preparation of preliminary plans, estimates of cost, and necessary models was provided in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1966, in the amount of‒‒‒‒‒

Balance authorized to be appropriated..
Amount requested to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1969----

$75, 000, 000

500, 000

74, 500, 000 2, 800, 000 Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees held hearings last December on a request for an appropriation of $2,800,000 to be included in the Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1968. The item was not included by the House

Committee or the House in the Bill; it was included in the Bill by the Senate Committee and the Senate; it was deleted in conference. The Justifications submitted to the Committee last December are herewith resubmitted for 1969.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAMES MADISON MEMORIAL BUILDING, $2,800,000 Public Law 89-260, approved October 19, 1965, authorized and directed construction of the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building by the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction jointly of the House Office Building Commission, the Senate Office Building Commission, and the Joint Committee on the Library, after consultation with a committee designated by the American Institute of Architects. The enabling legislation also provided that the building be constructed in square 732 in the District of Columbia and that it include a Madison Memorial Hall which was to be developed in consultation with the James Madison Memorial Commission. The legislation authorized appropriations not to exceed $75 million to construct the building (including the cost of designs, plans, and specifications).

An appropriation of $500,000 for preparation of preliminary plans, estimates of cost, and the necessary models, was included in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1966 (Public Law 89-309, approved October 31, 1965).

In view of the several Congressional commissions and committee involved in the project pursuant to the enabling legislation, a Coordinating Committee was established representing these various Congressional groups, to work closely with the Architect of the Capitol and the Librarian of Congress in carrying forward the project. Senator B. Everett Jordan, then Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, was elected as Chairman of the Coordinating Committee and Representative Omar Burleson, then Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, was elected as Vice Chairman of the Coordinating Committee.

Pursuant to the direction of the Coordinating Committee at meeting in March, 1966, and with concurrence of the parent commissions/committee named in the authorization act, the Architect of the Capitol retained Roscoe DeWitt, Alfred Easton Poor, Albert Homer Swanke, Jesse N. Shelton, and A. P. Almond as Associate Architects for the preparation of preliminary plans and estimates of cost, and providing a model for the new building. The amount of the contract with the Associate Architects is $435,000.

Pursuant to direction, the Architect of the Capitol also retained George Nelson and Gordon Chadwick of New York as exhibits consultants for the Madison Memorial Hall. Their contract for preliminary plans is in the amount of $16,000. The Librarian of Congress retained Robert H. Rohlf, a nationally known consultant in the field of libraries, to establish a program for the project and to work with the representatives of the Architect of the Capitol and the Librarian. Pursuant to direction of the Coordinating Committee and the parent commissions/committee, the Architect was to consult with a committee from the American Institute of Architects during the planning stage.

The Librarian submitted his program to the Architect of the Capitol in September, 1966, and the Architect of the Capitol forwarded the program to the Associate Architects promptly.

The Associate Architects developed the preliminary plans, cost estimates, and models from September, 1966 to the summer of 1967. During this period extensive studies were carried on by the Staff of the Architect of the Capitol, the Associate Architects, the Librarian's consultant, and the Exhibits Consultants. Consultation with the committee of the American Institute of Architects was held July 15, 1966, November 15, 1966, January 18, 1967, February 2, 1967, and March 8, 1967. Meetings were also held from time to time with the Chairman and/or the Vice Chairman of the Congressional Committee and with representatives of the James Madison Memorial Commission during the development stage.

The completed preliminary plans, renderings, model, cost estimates and various other information were formally presented to the various commissions/committees and were accepted as presented at meetings on the following dates:

Coordinating Committee_-_

Senate Office Building Commission----
Joint Committee on the Library-

House Office Building Commission----‒‒‒‒‒

August 4, 1967.

August 9, 1967.

August 16, 1967.
August 23, 1967.

The preliminary plans, etc. were also approved by representatives of the James Madison Memorial Commission.

At these meetings, the following matters were also presented and action taken as noted:

1. The commissions/committees considered and disagreed to the criticism of the plans and other matters in the report of the AIA committee to the Architect of the Capitol.

2. Suggestion of the Architect of the Capitol that the project be planned for execution in three stages was agreed to as follows:

(a) Contract for excavation and foundations

(b) Contract for supplying exterior marble and granite

(c) Contract for superstructure

3. The Architect stated that if the project is to proceed without interruption, funds would be required for preparation of plans and specifications by the architects-engineers, further services of the exhibits consultants, and miscellaneous administrative costs. He estimated the total architect-engineer fee as $3,050,000. This would be reduced by $435,000 being paid the architects-engineers for the current preliminary plans, estimates, and model and by $65,000 paid the architects-engineers for schematics and studies several years ago with respect to the site east of the Library Annex. This would result in further architect-engineer costs of $2,550,000. In addition, $250,000 would be required for exhibits consultants with respect to the Madison Memorial Hall and for administrative costs, making the total required at this time-$2,800,000. The commissions/committees agreed that the Architect should request this amount in the final supplemental appropriation bill in 1967.

4. The commissions/committees approved retention of DeWitt, Tatum, Poor, Swanke, Shelton and Almond as architects-engineers for preparation of final contract plans and specifications and all other architectural-engineering services required for completion of the project, on the basis of 5 percent of construction costs, less the deductions totaling $500,000 already mentioned.

5. The commissions/committees approved retention of George Nelson and Gordon Chadwick of New York as exhibits consultants during the remainder of the project for the lump sum price of $34,000.

The plans, estimates, models, renderings, and other details which had been developed were presented at a press conference of August 25, 1967, in the Wilson Room of the Library of Congress, called by Senator Jordan and Representative Burleson. Chairman Jordon, Vice Chairman Burleson, the Librarian of Congress and his assistants, the representatives of the James Madison Memorial Commission and the Architect of the Capitol, and the Associate Architects, participated in the press conference at which all details of the proposed structure, including photographs, floor plans, and descriptive material in the Associate Architects' report, were released to the press and the models, renderings, and other material were put on display.

Description of the Building and Basic Information

Site Square 732, bounded on the north by Independence Avenue, on the south by "C" Street, on the west by First Street, and on the east by Second Street. Building Dimensions:

Above grade: Length 514 feet; width, 414 feet.
Below grade: Length 614 feet; width 495 feet.

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The proposed building is a marble and/or granite structure covering 60.1 percent of the gross area of the plot measured curb to curb. The building is set back 78 feet from Independence Avenue, 39 feet from "C" Street, and 61 feet from First and Second Streets.

The main public entrance to the building is from Independence Avenue midway between First and Second streets. There are supplemental entrances provided on both First and Second Streets part way between Independence Avenue and "C" Street. Additional personnel entrances are provided on "C" Street.

The building is connected with the Cannon House Office Building by a pedestrian and service tunnel and is further connected with both the Main Building and the Annex of the Library of Congress by a pedestrian and service tunnel.

The building has four main service cores containing vertical transportation, conveyor and pneumatic tube stations, and various service facilities. These four main cores are supplemented by a public core directly at the main entrance from Independence Avenue and by a service core located to the rear of the screened truck dock at "C" Street.

The main entrance at grade level on Independence Avenue is two stories in height; it opens on a public lobby, which serves as an entrance to the James Madison Memorial Hall and to the reading rooms and service areas of the Library. The main entrance lobby continues into the building and terminates in an interior, landscaped court extending from the First Floor through the Third Floor. The interior court is approximately 75 feet by 87 feet; it is artifically lighted and conditioned to provide a point of reference for human scale for the central portion of the building. The James Madison Memorial Reading Room surrounds the court on three sides of the First Floor.

The entrance on Independence Avenue to the lobby of the building is so arranged that visitors may enter the James Madison Memorial Hall without entering the Library proper.

Architecturally, the design of the James Madison Memorial Building is related to the environment of and in keeping with the architecture of the existing Federal buildings on Capitol Hill as is required in the law. Because of site restrictions, plan requirements, and basic considerations of design, the building does not follow the design of any particular contiguous building. The style of the building can best be described as being designed under the classic discipline, yet in keeping with the architecture of the mid-20th century. Because of the space needs of the Library, the building has been extended below grade to the reasonable maximum in order to reduce the size of the structure as much as possible above grade. The Sixth Floor and the Mechanical Floor above have been progressively set back from the sides of the building to reduce the visual bulk of the structure. The set-backs of the building at grade level are somewhat greater on all streets than those of the Cannon House Office Building and are designed to receive decorative planting for most of the perimeter of the building.

The James Madison Memorial Hall is entered from the Main Lobby and consists of (1) a two-story room approximately 46 feet by 60 feet, with a ceiling height of approximately 23 feet, and (2) exhibition areas on the First and Second Floors, which provide display space for Madison documents and memorabilia. The total floor area of the Hall is approximately 15,200 square feet.

The James Madison Reading Room, with its presidential papers and other manuscripts and its rare books, and with its outlook on the landscaped inner court, extends the original concept of the memorial to include the "living memorial" the research center-that the Madison Memorial Commission envisioned to honor President Madison.

The departments of the Library of Congress that will occupy the Madison Building, according to present plans, are as follows: The Office of the Librarian, the Administrative Department, the Copyright Office, the Law Library, the Legislative Reference Service, the Processing Department, and six divisions of the Reference Department (the Geography and Map, Manuscript, Music, Prints and Photographs, Rare Book, and Serial Divisions).

The building will also include a preservation laboratory for documents and rare books; the Information Systems Office and related computer facilities; and special shelving facilities for part of the collection of the Library.

Office of the Librarian

SPACE ALLOCATIONS

A total of 25,800 square feet is provided for this function, primarily on the sixth floor, but with some service functions on the first floor, all with ready public access.

The sixth floor area is contiguous with the Cafeteria and Dining facilities. which can provide basic services for the private dining rooms. It enjoys the

magnificent outlook and terrace of the sixth floor. It maintains privacy with ready access to the working departments of the Library complex.

Administrative department

A total of 89,600 square feet is provided for this department, primarily on the sixth floor, contiguous with the office of the Librarian, but with some service functions on the basement, grade, and first floors.

The Photo Duplication Service is located near the main entrance on Independence Avenue, to maintain ready access by the Public.

The Office of the Secretary, and the Communications Center are located on the sixth floor, adjacent to the office of the director of this department.

Copyright office

The Copyright office, with an area of 150,790 square feet, will be located principally on the third floor, with certain elements located on the fourth floor, and in the basement.

Law Library

The Law Library, with an area of 179,860 square feet, occupies space for Collections on the sub-basement and basement floors. The Law Reading Room is located on the second floor, adjacent to the landscaped court and accessible to the public from the main entrance lobby.

Legislative Reference Service

The Legislative Reference Service, with an area of 104,700 square feet is located on the second floor. The Congressional Reading Room for the Members of Congress, their familities, and staff, is contiguous with the Legislative Reference Services Department, and is located adjacent to the landscaped court.

Processing Department

The Processing Department, with an area of 400,040 square feet, occupies part of the fourth, and extends its occupancy to all of the fifth floor, plus certain areas contiguous with the service facility on the ground floor at "C" Street and at other locations on that level, as well as some office space on the sixth floor. The branch of the Government Printing Office is located with direct access to the truck dock on the ground floor at "C" Street.

Reference Department

The Reference Department, with an area of 503,210 square feet, will be located on the basement, ground, first, and third floors, with extensive public exposure maintained on the first floor, including the James Madison Reading Room, the Serial Reading Room, the Rare Book Room, the Music Reading Room.

In addition to the provisions for the office of the Librarian and the six basic divisions of the Library assigned to this building, provision has been made for: General building facilities

An Assembly Room for 200 is provided on the sixth floor. A Cafeteria, for approximately 1,000 seats, complete with kitchen and staff lounge, is provided on the southerly portion of the sixth floor, with ready access thereto by escalators, located in the center of the building, and serving the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, where there is the greatest concentration of employees.

The serving areas of the Cafeteria have clerestory windows which give visual relief to these interior spaces.

The table service and private dining rooms are located contiguous with the Cafeteria for common basic service, and the Credit Union is contiguous with one of the Cafeteria lounges for the convenience of employees.

The convenience Snack Room and Lounge for employees, as a supplement of the Cafeteria, is located off the public vertical circulation core, on the ground floor, in the next largest concentration of employees.

The Welfare and Recreation Association is provided for on the sixth floor, contiguous with the Cafeteria.

The Health Room is accommodated on the third floor.
Further requirements have been satisfied as follows:

Miscellaneous

(The areas for which are provided for under the Administrative Department :) An Information Center is provided in the main entrance lobby on the first floor at Independence Avenue. A public checkstand is provided nearby.

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