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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; and

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 architectsengineers 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 architecturalengineering 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 Jordan, 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:

Net assignable area.

James Madison Memorial Hall (included in net assignable area) __

Floors in building (from Independence Ave.) :

Above grade, six plus mechanical equipment penthouse.

Below grade, three.

Building height (from Independence Ave.):

First 5 floors...

6th floor.

Mechanical equipment penthouse roof.

General characteristics of the building

Square feet

2, 112, 492

1, 702, 904

15, 200

Feet

71.5

83.0

101.5

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.

to either seek a higher authorization beyond the $75 million or to reduce the size of the building greatly, redesign the building, in fact. which would be tragic from the standpoint of the Library. Up until recently, we have calculated annual escalation cost at 3.2 percent, but recent reports indicate this percentage has risen.

Mr. ANDREWS. Doctor, if you will yield a minute, I serve on the Defense Subcommittee and all the military people have told us that for the last 3 years the rate of inflation in construction has risen at the rate of 6 percent per year. Just recently they told us that a destroyer that last year was contracted for $100 million, this year will cost $125 million, which is a 25-percent increase.

Dr. MUMFORD. In fact, the current reports by both the Engineering News Record and the Architectural Record reveal substantial increases in the rate of escalating construction costs which indicate that the cost of delay may be approaching, if not even exceeding, $3 million annually on this project.

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I fully appreciate the difficult decisions which confront you in respect to the budget, but I feel that this expenditure allowing further planning is vitally neces sary for the future of the Library of Congress and I therefore feel I must present my case to you today. Because of the budget situation. I think, the Coordinating Committee did not feel it should seek a larger sum at this time, but only this minimum amount to prevent further delay and even greater final cost increases.

I would like to point out that even though the appropriation request is for $2.8 million, only a portion of it would actually be expended in the next fiscal year. In fact, the actual expenditure, as I understand from the Architect's Office, would be spread over 3 or 4 years as the work progresses.

In view of the Library's increasingly long wait for the new building. the large sums we are now incurring annually for rental property. and the escalating cost of construction for the building itself, it seems to me that economic factors alone argue strongly for continuing prog ress on the building. The longer the delay the greater the cost of rent and the greater the cost of the building. In fact, because of rising costs, a longer delav might well jeopardize the existing preliminary plans, as I indicated earlier, and therefore result in even more additional cost in the redesigning of a smaller building, providing less space than now allowed, and this would be extremely difficult for the Library and its future growth.

For these reasons I cannot emphasize too strongly the need to move toward construction and occupancy of the Madison Building at the very earliest time.

Mr. ANDREWS. Thank you, Doctor.

Dr. MUMFORD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

AUTHORIZED LIMIT OF COST

Mr. ANDREWS. I believe the basic law fixes the limit of cost of the project at $75 million?

Dr. MUMFORD. This includes construction, architectural fees, and administrative costs, and so on.

Mr. ANDREWS. The sum of $500,000 has heretofore been appropriated for preparation of preliminary plans, estimates of cost, and necessary models of the proposed building, is that correct?

Dr. MUMFORD. Yes, sir.

Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Stewart, I take it this is a straight resubmission of the proposal submitted in the supplemental bill last December but which was postponed to some future time?

Mr. STEWART. That is right.

Mr. ANDREWS. Without objection we shall insert at this point in the record the comments of the committee in its report on that bill which appear on page 106 of the committee print.

(The material follows:)

CLERK'S NOTE.-This item was considered in connection with the supplemental bill, 1968 (in December 1967), but was postponed with the following committee comment:

The Committee considered the request of the Architect for $2.800,000 for drawing final plans for a third library building. The enabling legislation passed during the 89th Congress authorized appropriations of not to exceed $75 million to construct the building in square 732 and that it include a James Madison Memorial Hall. An appropriation of $500,000 for preparation of preliminary plans, estimates of costs, and necessary models, was provided in 1965. The need for this building has been clearly and firmly established through the hearings of this committee over the years. But as indicated earlier, the urgent need at this time is to postpone all new projects that can without undue adverse effect be postponed, and it seemed to the committee that this ought to be done in this case.

DETAILED JUSTIFICATIONS

Mr. ANDREWS. We shall insert at this point in the record pages 186 through 204 of the justifications.

(The pages follow :)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAMES MADISON MEMORIAL BUILDING

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------

$75, 000, 000

500,000

74,500,000 2,800,000

Balance authorized to be appropriated___. Amount requested to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1969----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 delated 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 Oct. 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. Everrett 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 Madiso 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 varions other information were formally presented to the various commissions/committees and were accepted as presented at meetings on the following dates: Coordinating Committee, August 4, 1967.

Senate Office Building Commission, August 9, 1967.
Joint Committee on the Library, August 16, 1967.
House Office Building Commission, August 23, 1967.

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

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

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