17. Arranged with the Office of the Surgeon General for a noise level survey in the compressor room of the Capitol Power Plant. Survey has been completed and report and recommendations submitted. 18. Initiated action for the installation of automatic sprinkler systems in the storage areas in the attic and subbasement of the New Senate Office Building. 19. Initiated eye protection program for employees whose work requires such protection. This program has proven to be very satisfactory. 20. Conducted performance tests of fire resistant paint and recommended its use in certain areas. This recommendation has been approved and is now being complied with. 21. Initiated action to add certain provisions to all construction contract specifications for the purpose of giving the Architect's Office greater control of contractors' safety procedures. These items are now standard provisions of all new contract specifications and have proven to be of material assistance in obtaining compliance with pertinent safety requirements. 22. Initiated a limited off the job accident prevention program for personnel of the Office of the Architect in conformance with Government policy. To date this program has been limited to making arrangements with the manufacturer for purchase, at one-half the retail price, of automobile seat belts by employees of the Architect's Office who desire this protective device; distribution to all employees of printed material relative to safe driving, fire prevention, and counterdoses for poisons and corrosives. 23. Participated in activities of the Federal Safety Council and Federal Fire Council. 24. Conducted survey of steam lines and tunnels and submitted recommendations for correction of numerous substandard safety conditions. 25. Survey of all buildings to ascertain safety procedures in window cleaning and painting of exterior window frames. Corrective recommendations have been submitted. 26. Investigation of all fatal and lost-time injuries to Government and contract personnel. 27. Safety consultant to other members of the Architect's staff. Complete accident statistics for the years 1959, 1960 and 1961 reveal that the accident frequency rate for Government employees of the Architect's Office in 1960 was 16.5 percent lower than in 1959 and the severity rate 14.5 percent lower: further, the frequency rate was 41 percent of the average frequency rate for all governmental agencies; the frequency rate for all governmental agencies was 8.3 and that of the Architect's Office 3.5 in 1960. In 1961 the frequency rate for all governmental agencies was 8.4 and that of the Architect's Office 3.18: this represents a reduction in frequency for the Architect's Office of .9 percent in 1961 as compared to 1960 and the severity rate during this period was reduced 98% percent. The average cost of injuries for all governmental agencies in 1960 was $14.74 per employee; the cost per employee for the Architect's Office in 1961 was $1.69. NOTE.-Frequency represents the number of lost time injuries per million manhours worked. Severity represents the number of days lost per million manhours worked. Mr. STEED. Mr. Bow, do vou have any questions? Mr. Bow. Yes, Mr. Chairman, I have a few. AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM IN EAST FRONT We have talked some about the air-conditioning and I am sure many questions will be asked of this committee. You have given the chairman some answers to it, but can you give us any more details as to why the air-conditioning system is not working in the various hearing rooms here in the east front? Mr. CAMPIOLI. The work in the mechanical equipment rooms is not completed. Mr. Bow. Well, it works part of the time and other times it does not. Mr. CAMPIOLI. At certain times during the past several weeks the manufacturer's representatives have come in and added some addi tional required control hookups and, unfortunately, that seemed to occur around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, necessitating the shutdown of the system. We have, since this condition has been revealed, issued instructions not to shut down the system while the rooms are in use. Mr. Bow. I am afraid what has happened is that the system has not been on, not that it has been shut down. One hearing room has a steady temperature of 80 degrees day in and day out, day and night. That would prove to me that there has been nothing turned on, that it is off all the time. That is in the State, Justice, and Judiciary Committee room. Mr. CAMPIOLI (to Mr. Sprankle). Is that the room you called me about Friday? Mr. SPRANKLE. That is room HE-323. Mr. Bow. You have a thermostat in that room that does not show a variation from 80 degrees temperature. Mr. SPRANKLE. Mr. Bow, we must be getting some hot air from some place because outdoor temperature is far short of 80°. The room is being heated! Mr. Bow. There is no circulation of air in there. Who has the contract of the east front? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Charles H. Tompkins is the general contractor but the William Singleton Co. is the subcontractor for heating and airconditioning. Mr. Bow. How many contractors do we have for the east front? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Just one. Mr. Bow. How many subcontractors? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Under the mechanical equipment contract? Mr. Bow. Yes. Mr. CAMPIOLI. The mechanical equipment contract is a subcontract and the subcontractor has further sublet some of the work to other subcontractors. Just how many there are I do not know since we do not approve the secondary subcontractors. TOTAL COST OF EAST FRONT EXTENSION Mr. Bow. By the way, what is this east front total cost going to be? Mr. STEWART. $24 million is authorized and we will need all of that amount. As you appreciate this includes work other than the east front itself. NEW ELEVATORS Mr. Bow. You talked about elevators. I have seen one new elevator on the House side, the one right around the corner. Where are the others? Mr. CAMPIOLI. There is one leading to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, a direct elevator from the first floor to the attic. On the Senate side there is one in the comparable location to that on the House side and two additional elevators have been added in the Senate wing. Those constitute the five new elevators. We do have two other elevators, as I have mentioned, which run from the kitchens up to the pantries. 81771-62-19 Mr. Bow. Where were the two put in the Senate wing? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Near the other four. Mr. STEWART. In other words, they have six elevators at the Senate wing entrance. Mr. Bow. And 100 members. How many do we have here? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Two at the House wing entrance and you will have three more on the west side of the House wing. Mr. Bow. That will give us a total of five after we get the new building, whenever that happens. I am a little bit surprised at the number of elevators you have for 100 Members against the number you have for 437 Members. Mr. STEWART. The late Mr. Rayburn requested me to make a study about adding two more elevators at the east front, making four elevators at the House wing front entrance, and three in the west side, which would give you seven, and that would make nine elevators because you already have four. Mr. Bow. How many elevators are there on the other side for Senators only? Mr. CLANCY. Two. Mr. ROOF. Just one in bank of six at the Senate wing entrance. Mr. Bow. There is an old one too for Senators only? Mr. CLANCY. There is one for Senators only, one for staff members and the press, and the other four for the public. Mr. Bow. How about the one back of the dining room? Mr. CLANCY. That is for Senators. Mr. Bow. So that would be two? Mr. CLANCY. Yes. Mr. Bow. We have none designated just for Members? Mr. STEWART. Only the one by the Speaker's Office, for Members and the press. Mr. STEED. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.) BASEMENT OFFICES Mr. Bow. What are the basement offices? Mr. STEWART. They exist on the Senate side, mostly of the new east front. Mr. Bow. What are they for? Mr. STEWART. We were ordered to finish 5 rooms on the Senate side for the use of Senators. Mr. Bow. For Senators? These are the new ones in the east front in the basement? Mr. STEWART. Yes. Everything we have on this side is for storerooms or the Library of Congress bookroom. Mr. Bow. But you have no private offices on the House side in the basement, is that right? Mr. STEWART. There is one or two offices but not for Members, no. Mr. Bow. How many will there be on the other side? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Five Senator offices. Mr. Bow. That is in the basement? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Yes, sir. Mr. Bow. How many are there in the extension of the east front? Mr. Bow. On the floor we are now on. What floor is that? Mr. STEWART. The gallery floor. Mr. Bow. How many offices are there on the gallery floor? Mr. Bow. Yes. Mr. CAMPIOLI. Seven. Mr. STEED. That takes up space that is on this side for committee rooms? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Yes, sir. Mr. Bow. How many Senators' offices are there on the principal floor? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Six. Mr. Bow. That does not include the Vice President's suite? Mr. STEWART. No. The Vice President has no rooms in the new east front. Mr. STEED. The Atomic Energy group took over the attic space on this side? Mr. STEWART. The entire attic. Mr. CAMPIOLI. And there are five more on the first floor. Mr. Bow. That makes a total of 23 for the Senators? Mr. CAMPIOLI. Yes, counting the basement rooms. Mr. STEED. Before we leave this item, since we made some reference to it, what is the visitor situation? Do you have any totals of the experience you had last year? Mr. STEWART. This is purely an estimate. We have not made a real check on it for about 8 months now, but from the size of the crowds, I would estimate it is about the same as last year, about 32.500 a day. That includes you, myself, the help, and visitors. Mr. STEED. How does that compare with previous years? Mr. STEWART. When I came here in 1954 it was about 15,000. It has doubled since I came here. Mr. STEED. The building is subjected to peaks of visitors, of course. Mr. STEWART. Yes. During the Cherry Blossom Week, which happened to be on Easter Week last year, we estimated there were between 42,000 and 43,000 persons using this Capitol daily. Mr. STEED. The work on the east front extension is near enough completion that when the peak comes this year you will be in a better position to handle the crowds in the sense of getting them in and out of the building than was true during construction? Mr. STEWART. Yes, that is true, but may I speak off the record on this a minute? Mr. STEED. We go to the next item, the "Extension of the Capitol," which appears at page 66 of the bill and page 51 of the justifications. As this project is nearly completed, I think we will insert the entire justifications so we will have a full summary of the project. (The pages follow :) CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION Public Law 242, 84th Congress, as amended by Public Law 406, 84th Congress, and Public Law 87-14, 87th Congress. Amount of contract authorization: To be determined by the Commission for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol. Amount of contract authorization appropriated to date: Legislative Appropriation Act, 1956-. Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1957. Total appropriated- Appropriation requested for 1963. Extension of the Capitol, $500,000 $5, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 1,500,000 22, 500, 000 500, 000 The extension of the Capitol project is authorized by the act of August 5, 1955, as amended by the acts of February 14, 1956, and March 31, 1961. Under the provisions of the Authorization Act, all work under the project is being performed by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the |