DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM Finally, to continue the operation and development of the Nation's depository library program, the Association recommends that the subcommittee provide the $1.879 million recommended in the 1969 Federal budget to enable the Superintendent of Documents to further the implementation of this essential program, authorized by the Depository Library Act of 1962. Federal funds allocated to this program of making Government-produced facts available to all who need them are an investment in an important share of the Government's output of information resources. One of the main objectives of depository libraries is to assist the taxpayer in his search for current and reliable data. The benefits derived from this activity accrue, in turn, to business, industry, science, research, and ultimately to the United States as a whole. By developing and increasing the number of designated depository libraries, Congress will be strengthening the country's information network. In addition to GPO publications, other prime sources of objective information, which contribute to the depository library knowledge bank, are the so-called non-GPO documents. These are publications printed by Federal departments and agencies outside the Government Printing Office. They are the results, in many cases, of Government research and study, and contain data of great value for the users of libraries. These documents should be distributed as part of the depository library system. In view of the preceding facts concerning the great value of these programs and services to the Nation, it is urged that the subcommittee approve the budget requests of the Library of Congress, allow the budget item for the continuance of work on the James Madison Memorial Library of Congress building, and authorize adequate funds for the implementation of the Depository Library Act of 1962. ADDITIONAL HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING PROJECT FURTHER PROPOSED REMODELING ITEMS, FISCAL YEAR 1969 (CLERK'S NOTE.-The following proposals for consideration in connection with the budget for 1969 were submitted after the close of the formal hearings:) Hon. GEORGE W. ANDREWS, Chairman, Legislative Subcommittee, ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL, MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: When I appeared before your committee on March 28, 1968, I presented a justification of a budget estimate of $6,975,000, submitted through the Bureau of the Budget at the direction of the House Office Building Commission, for remodeling the Longworth House Office Building and other work necessary in connection therewith, detailed on pages 256 and 257 of the House hearings. When I appeared before your committee on April 2, 1968, I presented to your committee items of work, estimated to cost $700,000, necessary to be done in the fiscal year 1969 in the three House Office Buildings and the Congressional Hotel in the event the Longworth remodeling program is deferred, detailed on page 298 of the House hearings. FIREARMS PRACTICE RANGE FOR THE CAPITOL POLICE, RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING One of the items included in the estimate of $700,000 was $113,500 for installation of a firearms practice range for the Capitol Police in the lowest garage level of the Rayburn Building, which would cause the loss of only about eight parking spaces. This item was not included in the remodeling estimate of $6,975,000. At the hearings, you will recall, we stated that this item had not been heard by the House Office Building Commission, but that we understood the Commission viewed it sympathetically. At a meeting of the House Office Building Commission, yesterday, the Commission unanimously endorsed the proposal for installing a firearms practice range in the proposed location in the Rayburn Building, and requested the Architect of the Capitol to advise your committee that the Commission considers this an urgently needed item and to request your committee to give favorable consideration to the inclusion of the funds requested for this item in the legislative branch appropriation bill for 1969. The Chief of the Capitol Police also makes an urgent plea for this item, and I fully concur in the urgency of need. Prior to approving this item, the same was discussed with the select committee in charge of the House garages, appointed under authority of House Resolution 514, 90th Congress, and the three members of this committee (Congressman Sisk, Congressman Hays, and Congressman Gross) also endorsed use of the garage space in the Rayburn Building for a firearms practice range. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT Since we appeared before your committee, need for another item has arisen, estimated to cost $25,000. At the meeting of the House Office Building Commission, yesterday, Congressman Price and other members of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct appeared before the Commission to request that their committee be assigned space on the third floor of the Rayburn Building, identified as room 2360; that the Commission endorse a request for an appropriation of $25,000 to make necessary changes in this one large room to accommodate their committee, in accordance with a layout prepared by the Architect of the Capitol at the request of the committee. The Commission unanimously approved the requests of the committee and directed the Architect of the Capitol to request the House Appropriations Committee to give favorable consideration to the inclusion of $25,000 for this purpose in the legislative branch appropriation bill for 1969. If funds for the remodeling program are not allowed for the fiscal year 1969, then it is requested that this item of $25,000 be added to the amount of $700,000 for the items of work recommended to be done in the fiscal year 1969, increasing the total amount, requested, to $725,000. In testifying before your committee, we advised that the only unfinished spaces in the Rayburn Building, suitable for committee use during the remodeling of the Longworth Building, were rooms 2358, 2360, and 2362 on the third floor of the Rayburn Building; that these rooms are now being used for the storage of furniture by the Clerk of the House; that, approval of either funds for a complete remodeling program or, in lieu thereof, $700,000 for work recommended to be done in the fiscal year 1969, in any event, would provide other storage areas for the furniture and permit these rooms to be vacated for committee use. Assignment by the House Office Building Commission of room 2360 to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct would leave rooms 2358 and 2362 available for other committee use when the Longworth Building is remodeled, and would not interfere with the remodeling program. Under the amount of $25,000, it is proposed to subdivide room 2360, which contains approximately 1,600 square feet of space into seven rooms by erection of masonry and metal partitions. The plans provide for a conference room, a room for the staff director, a room for the assistant staff director and staff, a room for a secretary, a room for a records clerk, a clerical and reception room, and a storage room for files. Breakdown of estimate Masonry and plastering work_ Metal partition work- $6,000 Electrical work (including relocating lighting fixtures, electrical and telephone installations). 5,000 Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning Painting Miscellaneous and contingency Total Yours very truly, Acoustical work (including removal and replacement of existing ceiling) 3,500 3,100 2.900 2,500 1,000 1,000 25,000 J. GEORGE STEWART. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT, May 15, 1968. Hon. GEORGE W. ANDREWS, Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR GEORGE: The House Office Building Commission today approved a request to assign and subdivide 1,566 square feet at 2360 Rayburn House Office Building for the occupancy and use of this committee. A detailed plan of the subdivision is attached. The Architect's estimated cost of the entire project is $25,000. The requested space is only slightly larger than that presently assigned. It is, however, unlike the present space, adaptable to proper storage of the financial disclosure records, which will shortly be required, and to conversational security. The sensitivity of matters that might be expected to come before this committee makes these considerations most important. In order that the work may go forward, it is respectfully requested that provision for this expenditure be made in the legislative branch appropriation bill now under consideration by your subcommittee. Under the most favorable timing, occupancy could not be expected before early next year. If I may supply additional information or appear before your subcommittee on behalf of this request, I shall be happy to do so. With kindest personal regards. Sincerely, MELVIN PRICE, Chairman. NOTE.-Detailed layout plan referred to omitted here. 92 655-68-41 [Clerk's Note.-The following hearings of June 6 and June 10, relating to House dining facilities, were conducted by a special subcommittee (Representatives Yates of Illinois and Andrews of North Dakota) appointed by the chairman of the Legislative Subcommittee for the purpose of looking into the operations of the House dining facilities:) THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1968. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE DINING FACILITIES WITNESSES J. GEORGE STEWART, ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL CHARLES A. HENLOCK, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ASSISTANT KERMIT COWAN, RESTAURANT MANAGER THE EXECUTIVE BERNARD A. BRADY, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Mr. YATES. We have with us today the gentlemen from the Office of the Architect of the Capitol who have, by virtue of the direction of the Legislative Subcommittee, been conducting a preliminary exploration into the possibilities of having the House dining facilities operated under some satisfactory private concession arrangement. STATUTE GOVERNING PRESENT OPERATIONS I think the record should contain at this point a copy of Public Law 812 of the 76th Congress, section 208, and a copy of House Resolution 590, 76th Congress. H. RES. 590, 76TH CONGRESS, AGREED TO SEPTEMBER 5, 1940 "Resolved, That effective October 1, 1940, until otherwise ordered by the House, the management of the House Restaurant and all matters connected therewith shall be under the direction of the Architect of the United States Capitol under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe for the operation and the employment of necessary assistance for the conduct of said restaurant by such business methods as may produce the best results consistent with economical and modern management. "SEC. 2. The Committee on Accounts after the close of business September 30, 1940, is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Architect of the United State Capitol all accounts, records, supplies, equipment, and assets of the House Restaurant that may be in the possession or under the control of the said committee in order that all such items may be available to the Architect of the United States Capitol toward the maintenance and operation of the House of Representatives Restaurant." |