Mr. CAMPIOLI. We gave this consideration. We actually made a detail of the condition as it would be to provide a door so the contractor would have something to base his estimate on.

Mr. HORAN. How wide a door can be put in there without changing the custom-built

Mr. CAMPIOLI. Not much over two feet.

Mr. HORAN. Off the record.

(Off the record.)

FURNITURE IN OLD BUILDINGS

Mr. LANGEN. Getting back to the furniture, what is going to hap pen to all the old furniture that will be left in the old buildings! Mr. HENLOCK. As we will still have the same number of rooms in the two old buildings after remodeling, it was our plan to leave the furniture in the old buildings.

Mr. LANGEN. There are 169 offices, as I understand, in the new building, and there is a limit as to how many secretaries each office can have. Just because you have an extra room, is no indication that more desks or furniture will be needed.

Mr. ROOF. In the case of the Senate Office Building, we bought all new furniture as recommended here. The old furniture was used throughout the basement areas of the old building when they remodeled it. The remainder of it was transferred to GSA as surplus property. That might be what will result in this case.

Mr. HORAN. Did you get a credit for that transfer?
Mr. ROOF. No. We just turned it over to them.

Mr. LANGEN. The reason for my inquiry, some of the furniture is real good. There are some real good committee tables. I am wondering what will happen to them and whether or not they are not an asset in some form or other. They certainly should not be wasted.

COST OF PARKING FACILITIES

I notice the two garages are going to be built at a cost of $5,800 per car.

Mr. STEWART. That is right.

Mr. LANGEN. What is the cost per car in the Rayburn Building! Mr. CAMPIOLI. I have the figures on the garage in the Cannon Building, the old building. That garage was built in 1958. The cost was $4,780 per car. In that building, of course, we had just the roof and the floor slabs and the columns to build.

We did not have to build the perimeter since the building itself formed the perimeter. Also, since 1958, there has been in escalation on construction costs of approximately 2 to 3 percent a year, so the $4,780 compares very favorably with the $5,800.

The legislative garage, built in 1931, cost $4,630 per car, but that included the landscaping and everything in connection with it. So in contrast to that, we are getting a bargain here.

Mr. LANGEN. That still does not quite answer my question relative to the Rayburn Building.

Mr. CAMPIOLI. The Rayburn Building is difficult to answer because it is in the lump-sum contract for the whole building, and we do not have that cost broken down.

Mr. LANGEN. I raise the point because there are newspapers that are prone to be critical of the building, and want to take the total cost of the building and divide it by 169 offices, and credit that cost to each congressional office.

I think that is an erroneous figure to present to the public.

Mr. STEED. Included in there also are the committee rooms and the dining rooms and all the other service facilities.

Mr. CAMPIOLI. The figure also includes the story that has the shops. That is more expensive space, since it is going to be air conditioned, than the empty garage space.

Mr. STEED. I think one of the commendable features of the underground garage proposed is the work space for these service units that will be moved in there. They already are moved from these buildings.

In the case of paint, it is very unwise to store inflammables in a building like the House Office Building, or the Capitol basement. We need something like that very badly.

Mr. CAMPIOLI. Our figure is lower than the figures I have seen published for other garages.

Mr. STEED. What part of the $8 million total cost would the shop area include?

Mr. CAMPIOLI. Of that total amount, about $1 million is the money allocated to the shop and storage area.

Mr. STEED. Leaving about $7 million for the other costs?

Mr. CAMPIOLI. Yes, sir.

Mr. LANGEN. How much parking is there available on the Capitol Grounds for the public?

Mr. STEWART. Very little. Most of it is reserved for employees. Mr. STEED. Considering the Capitol Grounds, there is no space left for the public. I think it is quite important something be done that will make some space available to the public.

Mr. STEWART. There are about 60 spaces out in front of the Capitol that are available to tourists; 30 on each side are reserved for tourists. Mr. STEED. It is virtually impossible to keep them free and clear because other use is made of them so much.

Mr. STEWART. There are police out there to carry out the parking restrictions.

Mr. CAMPIOLI. Mr. Chairman, this figure is less per car than a figure I have seen for the proposed Farragut Garage. Our garages are very often compared to other garages where they are not individual-park garages but the cars are parked by attendants, where the cars are parked in only 8 by 18 feet. In our garage, where each individual parks his own car, we allow 10 by 20 feet.

Mr. STEED. Isn't it true, also, this proposed design is so arranged that if some time in the future the size and length of automobiles change you could take advantage of that by rearranging the space? Mr. CAMPIOLI. We have more flexibility than you would have with the tighter size of 8 by 18.

Mr. LANGEN. I was trying to put some emphasis on the fact that there is a parking problem. Not only as concerns the employees and Members of Congress, but as it may concern the public, to some degree, who may come here to visit.

Mr. STEWART. I agree with you and will check with the Sergeant at Arms to see if any further solution can be found.

Mr. HORAN. And I want to pay a tribute to the police on our side of the Capitol because whenever I have prior knowledge of a constituent or a guest coming down to lunch with me or see me, particularly when I am in the Capitol, they have been most courteous in taking care of that individual and helping him to park his car someplace.

Mr. STEED. I have had several very happy experiences like that with my own constituents and I do believe those men go out of their way to try to cope with this problem but some days there are just so many here it is physically impossible.

Mr. HORAN. If they will leave the key in the car they are always willing to park them double. I just think they ought to be commended for that. They get enough criticism as it is.

LANDSCAPING FOR RAYBURN BUILDING

Mr. LANGEN. Did I understand someone to say there were to be 1,400 trees planted of some kind in connection with the Rayburn Building?

Mr. Roof. Those are small shrubbery plants called Ilex Crenata. We have in mind buying them small and growing them for a year and a half or 2 years and putting them around the Rayburn Building. A small shrubbery plant.

Mr. LANGEN. The shrubbery that surrounds the building?

Mr. Roof. Yes. On the terraces and around the terraces.

Mr. STEWART. The trees will exist primarily around the sidewalk and curb line.

Mr. LANGEN. As I see it, there isn't a lot of space there for any large plantings.

Mr. STEWART. They will be clumps and groups.

Mr. STEED. While we are on the subject, by doing it this way the end cost of these items is reduced by a very sizable amount. If you went into the open market and bought these things instead of the way you are doing, it would cost a lot more than it is going to cost the way they are doing it.

Mr. STEWART. For the interest of the Congressman who wasn't here at that time, when the Supreme Court Building was built we furnished part of the planting around that building. That is from our nursery at that time and we furnished the planting around the Library of Congress Annex when it was built and around other building from time to time, up until 1942 when the floods came and washed out our nursery. We were then at the mercy of the market to buy what we wanted. It is reasonable to assume if you have a nursery area where you could buy small trees for from $1.50 to $3 apiece and let them grow for 5 years, you can keep them there and they can be acclimated and they can have a better chance of thriving after you put them in the ground than if you brought them and brought them in over 50 or a hundred miles and perhaps pay $15 or $20 apiece for them. It works both ways. Not only the dollars saved but the fact that they are acclimated; that they have grown in this temperature and in this area, the soil conditions being the same. In this way, they are able to be successfully transplanted to the grounds about our building and to be grown and kept in a healthy condition. Mr. LANGEN. That is all.

Wage-rate increases authorized by Public Law 763, 83d Cong-
Under the provisions of Public Law 763, 83d Cong., 82 laborers
and mechanics on the Capitol Power Plant roll are compensated
on a wage board, prevailing rate basis. Public Law 763 provides
that the compensation of such employees shall be fixed and
adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the
public interest in accordance with prevailing rates.

An increase of $10,609 is requested for 1964 to meet on a full-
year basis the cost of increased wage rates established for these
wage board positions as a result of a general survey of Govern-
ment and industrial employees' wages in the Washington Metro-
politan area, conducted during the past year. The new rates
went into effect Dec. 9, 1962, in accordance with the provisions
of Public Law 85-872, 85th Cong. This increase is necessary
in order that the Capitol Power Plant wage board employees may
be compensated on a full-year basis in the fiscal year 1964 in
accordance with present prevailing rates.

An increase of $2,621 is requested for 1964 to meet the cost of within-grade promotions and other changes falling due in that year, authorized by Public Law 763 under the wage board system, for employees compensated under that act.

$2,052, 000

13, 230

Additions--Continued
Personnel compensation--Continued

Within-grade promotions authorized by the Classification Act of 1949,
as amended, for employees compensated under that act---
Overtime and holiday pay costs increased by $4,000 to meet increased
costs under that allotment resulting from base pay increase under
Public Law 763 and under Public Law 87-793-.

Regular pay above 52-week base allotment increased by $1.800 to
cover 2 additional days instead of the usual 1 additional day above
the 52-week base, next year being leap year.
Increased pay costs due to Public Law 87-793, approved Oct. 11,
1962, Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962--.
2 additional positions:

1 wage board 12 instrument mechanic, at $6,781 per annum.
1 wage board 10 welder helper, at $5.845 per annum.

Wage board instrument mechanic: At the present time
there are instrument mechanics provided at the Capitol
Power Plant to calibrate, service, and keep in repair the
hundreds of gages, thermometers, flowmeters, and other con-
trol instruments not only at the Capitol Power Plant but
also in the plant's extensive steam and chilled water dis-
tribution systems connecting the plant with the various
buildings which it supplies with steam and refrigeration.
With the addition of the New Senate Office Building, the
extension of the east front of the Capitol, modifications to
the Library of Congress heating and ventilating systems,
changes, improvements, and expansion of the Capitol Power
Plant facilities to meet expanded requirements, there are
now many more instruments to be serviced and the work
cannot be carried on properly without the addition of
another mechanic to the maintenance force.

These control instruments must be calibrated and adjusted at regular intervals to insure proper operating conditions, as inaccurate readings could actually cause dangerous situations to arise. This is particularly true of the complex pneumatic control systems that regulate pressure, temperature, and flow of steam, chilled water, and air conditioning. Wage board welder's helper: There is 1 position of welder provided at the Capitol Powerplant. This position was allowed in 1960 and has made it possible to carry on welding work on a fairly regular basis. There is not only much need for such service at the plant and in its steam and chilled water distribution systems but there is also a growing need for such service in the buildings supplied by the plant. Welding repairs must be made to chilled waterlines, hot-oil pipelines for snow melting, steam lines, and other equipment. As it is, the welder now has to attempt to do the work of both welder and a helper and under such conditions his services cannot be used to best advantage and his output is necessarily handicapped.

It is strongly urged that an additional position of welder's helper be allowed for 1964 in order that the heavy workload to be cared for may be met in a satisfactory and efficient manner, with a consequent increase in output.

Personnel benefits:

Contribution to retirement fund increased from $33,400 to $35,100___
This additional cost results from increase in basic pay rates
and is required by Public Law 854, 84th Cong.

Annual gas service increased from $1,700 to $12,000–.

For a number of years, the annual allotment for purchase of
gas from the local public utility has been $1,700. With the
recent installation of 2 gas-fired boilers at Poplar Point Nursery
to serve the 8 new greenhouses constructed at the nursery under
authority of Public Law 1005, 84th Cong., and placed in service
last year, it is now necessary to purchase gas in the total amount
of $12,000, based on actual operating experience. An increase
of $10,300 under this allotment is therefore requested for the
fiscal year 1964.
Purchase of electrical energy increased from $968,000 to $1,100,000–

For 1963, $968,000 was allowed for purchase of 80,000,000
kilowatt-hours of electrical energy from the local public utility
at an average cost of 1.2 cents per kilowatt-hour.

For 1964, $1,100,000 is requested for purchase of 92,000,000 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy, also at an average cost of 1.2 cents per kilowatt-hour.

The increase is due primarily to increased wattage use resulting from improved and additional illumination installed throughout the Capitol Building under the Capitol extension project. This program is now about 75 percent completed and the full benefit of the program is beginning to be realized. Additional lighting improvements will continue to be effected in the fiscal year 1964. All of this results in the use of additional electrical energy, along with the improved lighting.

In addition, 3 new elevators and escalators in the House wing of the Capitol and the power supply system serving the new subway transportation system connecting the Rayburn House Office Building with the House wing of the Capitol are expected to be placed in service during the latter half of the fiscal year 1964, resulting in the use of additional electrical energy.

$+505

4,000

1,800

1,839

6,781 5,845

1,700

10, 300

132,000