authorities that Congress has already given us and we can save 4 to 6 months by doing this and have these facilities ready for new hires at Fort Meade to take on the mission that has to be moved over from 1st Army, sir. So we would eliminate this $250,000 request from title I. The next item at Fort Meade is road improvement, $550,000. This will provide improvement to Savage Road by making this a fourlane, two-way road with median instead of the existing two-way, twolane road of 20-foot width. In addition, other roads in the same area will be included to preclude bottlenecks. The new National Security Agency building annex at this station will be completed this year adding 1,400 parking spaces to the existing 4,784. An additional security facility which is in the fiscal year 1966 Department of Defense construction program will add 750 more parking spaces. So we have an increase here in the traffic density coming up of almost 78 percent and this project is required to alleviate this condition. Senator INOUYE. General, will you be able to return at 2:30 this afternoon? General SHULER. Any time you say, sir. Senator INOUYE. If so, this session will be recessed until 2:30 this afternoon. General SHULER. Thank you. (Whereupon, at 12:15 p.m., a recess was taken until 2:30 p.m., the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (Present: Senators Inouye (presiding), Cannon, and Tower.) Senator INOUYE. General, shall we proceed? General, I realize that the statements you are presenting at this time may be short and may not cover the items in detail. If it is your wish to submit for the record detailed explanation of these items, you are invited to do so. STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. W. R. SHULER, ACCOMPANIED BY MAJ. GEN. F. J. CLARKE AND COL. W. R. JOHNSON-Resumed General SHULER. I accept that, Mr. Chairman. I think in many cases, we would wish to do so. Senator INOUYE. Fine. Without objection, so ordered. The reporter will place these in the appropriate places. I believe we were on page 41, sir. FORT MONROE, VA. General SHULER. We had finished 41, Mr. Chairman, and it takes us to Fort Monroe. That is on page 42, where we are requesting one item, a new headquarters building for the Continental Army Command. The item itself is on page 43. This will provide needed efficient administrative space for this headquarters, sir, which is presently dispersed throughout the post in many makeshift facilities. Some of these facilities date back to even the early 1800's, one is an old case mate. We have diverted a number of other buildings, barracks, part of the old station hospital, it is very spread out. This project has been deferred many times, based on the possibility of relocating all or portions of Headquarters, Continental Command, from Fort Monroe. All these studies have been conclusive in this headquarters remaining at this location. This is a permanent station. Since World War II there has been a spiraling of new missions which have increased manpower and headquarters facilities requirements. For example, in October of 1961 this headquarters was assigned the additional mission of providing command and staff responsibility for the Army component of the Unified Strike Command. This is on extremely important headquarters, sir. It has a very broad mission. All the continental armies come under it. The commander wears this other hat I have just mentioned, and we feel that the expenditure of this reasonable amount of money to provide a centralized functional headquarters facility for him is a necessity, sir, and long overdue. Senator INOUYE. From your statement I would agree that this item is necessary. However, rumors have come to the attention of this committee that Fort Monroe has been given consideration for closing or moving or consolidation. Is there any basis for this rumor? General SHULER. Sir, as I stated, we have made a number of studies in this area and in this regard, and they are all conclusive that this is where it should remain. The Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget have both personally approved this project this year, and this is exactly where we intend to have it remain, Mr. Chairman. Senator INOUYE. According to your mission description here, CONARC is responsible for the Army elements of STRIČOM. The committee was of the opinion that STRICOM was located at McDill in Florida. Can you explain the relationship here? Mr. FOSTER. The headquarters of U.S. Strike Command is at McDill Air Force Base in Florida. The Army component, or Army Strike, is at Fort Monroe, even as the Navy and the Air Force components are also located in the Norfolk, Va., area. These are components of the total command. Senator INOUYE. Thank you very much, Mr. Foster. What will be the population of this new headquarters building? General SHULER. This will be 950 persons, sir, the design capacity of it. Senator INOUYE. It has been brought to the committee's attention that in certain instances the military seems to be allocating more floor space for headquarters purposes than, say, the GSA for Federal buildings; is this correct? General SHULER. Mr. Chairman, I ask permission to place in the record, as I did before on another headquarters building request, the exact rules under which we operate, and we will be glad to include the GSA floor space. But as I said, we have tightened up on this on our office space requirements. We have tightened up recently. Senator INOUYE. Fine, sir. 47-232-65-40 : (The information referred to follows:) Following Army space allowance criteria are extracted from Army Regulations 405-70, dated March 11, 1965. A copy of the complete regulation, too voluminous to reproduce here, can be made available to the committee. 25. Space allowances. The prescribed allowances are to be considered in the light of general discussion of types of space contained in paragraphs 15 through 23. a. Office space. The prescribed allowances provide for net office floor area averages ranging generally between 80 and 100 square feet per person. 1 Includes administrative and professional personnel below the top executive level (b and c below). 2 When more than 15 file cabinets are placed in rows face to face with aisles between, the utilization should range between 5 and 7 square feet per cabinet for standard files and between 6 and 8 square feet per cabinet for legal files. Desk allowances should be separate. P-2‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ Heads of directorates, commands, offices, bureaus, and Maximum allowance (net square feet)1 agencies. P-3--- Executives assistants in grade GS-18 or equivalent. 400 Deputies to positions in P-2 category. 300 P-4‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ Division heads in grades GS-15, GS-14, or colonel; com parable positions. Branch heads, in grades GS-14 or colonel and above; com- Deputies to positions in P-3 category. Technical or scientific specialists requiring private offices, 200 Division and branch heads requiring private offices, grade 150 P-6‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ Branch heads requiring private office, GS-12 or major and below; comparable positions. Technical or scientific specialists requiring private of fices, grades GS-13 and below. Administrative personnel requiring private offices. 100 1 Office space allowances cover the furniture and equipment normally associated with the position and, in case of open office space, include a circulation or layout factor. Professional and administrative positions_ Maximum allowance (net square feet)1 110 90 60 0-3‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ Stenographic and clerical positions_____ 1 Office space allowances cover the furniture and equipment normally associated with the position and, in case of open office space, include a circulation or layout factor. d. Meeting rooms (seating less than 200 persons). Utilization is measured in percentage of potential man-hours occupancy and should be at least 25 percent. e. Reproduction plants. The utilization is determined in accordance with standards for production plant operations. f. Warehouse or storage. Unit of measure Unit allowance Minimum Maximum (1) Active warehouse----- Percentage of net building Standard pre floor area occupied for (2) Inactive warehouse_-_. Percentage of net building (3) Storerooms__ g, Garage_____ floor area occupied for h. Building maintenance space-- i. Recruiting stations__. j. Housing. See AR 415-31. k. Other space. (1) Production plant-----(2) Assembly space (de signed seating capacity for 200 or more persons). (3) Recreational facilities. 0.5 (Following are General Services Administration allowances, extracted from "Federal Property Management Regulations" amendment D-1, dated December 1964 :) SUBPART 101-20.3 SPACE STANDARDS, CRITERIA, AND GUIDELINES § 101-20.300 Scope of subpart. This subpart identifies those factors affecting office layout which must be considered in connection with achieving more efficient layouts and better space utilization. § 101-20.301 Definition of terms. The following definitions in this § 101-20.301 are established for terms used in this subpart. § 101-20.301-1 Occupancy guides. "Occupancy guides" means printed guidelines which outline the space requirements based on the functions, operations, and staffing of the particular agency for which they are developed. § 101-20.301-2 Private office. "Private office" means a room occupied by one individual; this includes rooms enclosed by either ceiling-high or bank-type partitions. § 101-20.301-3 Work station. "Work station" means the area, furniture, equipment, and configuration required for one worker. § 101-20.301-4 File space. "File space" means an area used either predominantly or exclusively for filing operations. § 101-20.302 Space allowances. Space allowances are derived from specific studies of the operations of the agencies, and are directed toward providing each employee with enough space to work efficiently. § 101-20.303 Use of occupancy guides. The objectives of the occupancy guide program are to improve agency operations and promote economic and prudent utilization of federally owned and leased space through the development and application of occupancy standards and criteria for specific agencies and activities. Each occupancy guide represents an agreement between GSA and the agency as to the latter's space requirements and is written in terms which permit nationwide application. Occupancy guides will be used as the basis of authorization and layout of agency space. § 101-20.304 [Reserved] § 101-20.305 Interim space allowances. (a) The interim space allowances listed in § 101-20.305-1 are to be used in office space planning for all agencies or components thereof, for which occupancy guides have not been published. In addition, these allowances are applicable for all agency headquarters activities. The application of these space allowances is canceled immediately upon publication of the appropriate occupancy guide. (b) Allowances listed in § 101-20.305-1 shall not be used as criteria for assigning space to individuals or even to small units of an office. Rather, they are to be used to evaluate the total amount of space required for specific agency locations. § 101-20.305-1 List of interim space allowances. 1 Head of agency and deputy (not prescribed). § 101-20.306 Allowance for private offices. Private offices should be provided only when there is a demonstrated functional need; and then they should be only large enough for the occupant to conduct his normal business in an efficient manner and with a reasonable degree of dignity. The normal maximum allowance for private offices is 300 square feet, but this should be approached only in cases where it is necessary for the occupant to confer frequently with sizeable groups of people, and a conference room is not convenient. PART 101-20 ASSIGNMENT AND UTILIZATION OF SPACE § 101-20.307 Allowance for work stations. The work station concept is an office layout technique which identifies those items of furniture and equipment actually required for the proper performance of an employee's duties, and arranges them in a manner intended to stimulate efficient work processing. Space allowances for individual work stations generally range in area from 42 square feet to 100 square feet, depending on the specific furniture and equipment requirements of the position. Proper positioning of work stations will result in increased efficiency and economy of operation. § 101-20.308 Allowance for file space. In any space layout, consideration should be given to records, storage, and a determination made as to whether the files are active or inactive. (An inactive file is one in which reference service is not more frequent than one reference per file drawer per month.) Inactive files should be removed from expensive office space and transferred to a Federal Records Center for temporary storage and ready reference, or to nonoffice space. Study should be made of the need for and use of filing equipment to insure that all drawers are used for files only, and are at least three-fourths full. Office supplies, etc., should not be stored in filing equipment. |