JUSTIFICATION OF THE ESTIMATE

I would like very much to have inserted in the record pages 4 to 10 without reading them, unless you so desire.

Mr. STEED. We will insert those at this point in the record. (The pages referred to follow :)

The gross budget increase of $4,985,100 is summarized as follows: Personal services:

Increased pay costs, wage-board employees, authorized by Pub-
lic Law 763, 83d Cong-

Within-grade salary advancements under the Classification Act__
Overtime and holiday pay increased costs--

Total, gross personal services increase

$123, 731

11, 519

Additional positions: Salaries, Office of Architect of the Capitol: 1 GS-5 clerk, GS-4 clerk; Capitol Buildings: 2 GS-7 male nurses, 2 wage-board elevator mechanics; Senate Office Buildings: 1 wage-board subway mechanic____

20, 134

35, 316

190, 700

6, 000

1,000

1,000

30, 000

38, 000

Other annual maintenance items:

Contribution to retirement fund, Public Law 854, 84th Cong---
Payment to employees' life insurance fund, Public Law 598, 83d
Cong---

Penalty mail costs, Public Law 286, 83d Cong.
All other items__.

Total, other annual maintenance items.

Special nonrecurring maintenance items:

Capitol Buildings, Capitol Grounds, Senate Office Buildings,
House Office Buildings, legislative garage, Capitol Power
Plant---

Library buildings and grounds (including $2,500,000 for replace-
ment of 63-year-old heating and ventilating system in the main
Library building)_.

Total, special nonrecurring maintenance items___
Special nonrecurring construction items: Extension of the Capitol:
Liquidation of contract authority.

Total gross increase requested for 1962__

123, 700

3, 132, 700

3, 256, 400

1,500,000

4,985, 100

69462 - 61

A breakdown of the annual and nonrecurring maintenance and construction items of increase follows:

Total..

Maintenance and repairs, elevators.
Installation of floor tile, both buildings.

Repairs to mosaic floor tile and marble floor
tile, main building.

Restore and repair decorated plaster ceilings,
2d floor, exhibit halls, main building.
Cleaning exterior stonework, main building.
Birdproofing upper areas, including court-
yards, main building.

Roof repairs and replacements, main building.
Cafeteria expansion, main building...

Replacement of book conveyors, north and
south stacks, main building..

Adjustable loading dock, receiving unit, main
building...

Replacement of air filter bank for the southeast
stack, main building..

Floor matting, main building entrances.
Replacement of silk wall covering in former

House of Representatives reading room, main
building....

Installation of heating and cooling system, main
building, including necessary structural and
other work.

Materials handling and cleaning equipment..
Additional booster pump for city water supply,
main building..

Dust-arresting system, carpenter shop, main
building....

Stairway scaffolds..

Shelving, steel, for Map Division, annex.

Plan file cases for prints and photographs,
Prints and Photographs Division.

Underground sprinkler system, grounds, main
building..

22, 000
14, 700

16,800

20,000

12,000

95,000

58,000

30, 700

103, 000

180,000

3,500

2,500

Mr. STEWART. And I would also like to have inserted in the record the blue or control sheets for each appropriation as we come to the different appropriations.

Mr. STEED. At this point we shall insert pages 11 to 13 of the justifications and we will take up the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, beginning on page 11 of the justifications and page 60 of the committee print.