Fourth Floor Egress Stair

Category: Life Safety

Funding of $85,000 was provided in fiscal year 1999 via a reprogramming to design an egress stairway from the Fourth Floor of ear 1999 via a reprog the Capitol. The stairway located across from Room S-331 will be modified to provide an egress path from the Fourth Floor. The required egress for the Fourth Floor must be addressed for life safety reasons, and also must be installed before any renovation work can begin on the Fourth Floor. The preliminary estimate for construction of the stairway is in the neighborhood of $865,000. This is due to the number of structural challenges presented by this project. A final estimate will be developed when the design is completed.

Safety Policy Development

Category:

Life Safety

$664,000

This request will provide for the contractual services of approximately eight man-years to develop the program and policy development associated with safety compliance issues. Specialists in the areas of Fire Protection, Safety, and Environment capable of interpreting standards and regulations, assessing jurisdictional needs and limitations, and developing policy and plans for implementation at an Agency and jurisdictional level are required.

ADA Requirements Category:

ADA

$300,000

Following passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Architect of the Capitol established a program to identify, address and solve accessibility issues in the Capitol Complex. As the first activity of the ADA Accessibility Program, the U.S. Capitol was surveyed in 1992 and data from the survey became the basis for evaluating the level of effort required to eliminate barriers to accessibility throughout the complex. Beginning in fiscal year 1994, funding was requested and appropriated for modifications to the buildings and grounds to achieve full accessibility in compliance with the ADA. The funding request took into account the expectations that not all of the identified accessibility problems would require building modifications and that some of the needed modifications would be addressed

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within the scope of separately-approved special projects such as the Elevator Modernization Program.

During the ensuing years, several design and construction projects have been undertaken and accessibility has improved throughout the complex. The identification of additional accessibility problems and guidance to priorities for attending to them are provided by AOC staff experts, by the Office of Compliance that is preparing to conduct a third round of inspections of appropriate facilities, and by Members, staff members and visitors to the complex who request assistance with particular accessibility problems.

The work in the U.S. Capitol involves design and construction projects to modify elements of the building to ensure that per persons with disabilities have access to the building and its public areas and services. The priorities for this work are generally compatible with priorities established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): 1) building entrances; 2) public toilet rooms (water closets, toilet stalls, urinals, lavatories and mirrors, etc.); and 3) interior paths of travel to most essential public areas and services (ramps, stairs, platform lifts, elevators, protruding objects, ground and floor surfaces, signage, doors and doorways, alarms, etc.). Priorities for this work are also geAcrobina bojich any blue for blauennion provided by the Office of Compliance.

Funding totaling $1.8 million has been provided on a "No Year" basis for this work. Funding was eliminated from the budget in fiscal year 2000. However, it is estimated that additional work totaling $600,000 is still required. It is anticipated that these funds will be requested in two phases beginning in fiscal year 2002.

Category:

$1,565,000

Funds currently estimated at $1,565,000 will be requested in fiscal year 2002 to design a new command center for the U. S. Capitol Police. Construction funds estimated at $14,100,000 will be requested in fiscal year 2004. The reflected funding reflects the cost of fitting out an existing facility and does not include the construction of a new structure. The location of the facility has not this time. One proposal is to locate the facility in the lower level of a new garage planned for Square 724. The intent of this program is

to provide enhanced coordinated security. The Capitol Police Board has agreed with this project.

2842'000

CB.67

Emergency Operations for HVAC Systems, Capitol

Category:

Security

As required for proper ventilation of the Capitol during normal operation, the heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems introduce outside air into the occupied spaces within the building. During emergency situations, however this ventilation air could introduce noxious or toxic gases into the building. Funding was provided in fiscal year 1999 to design a system which upon receiving an indication that a noxious or toxic gas had been introduced into the building ventilation system would place the system in a mode of operation to stop introduction of the gas into the building and then exhaust the gas from the building.

A preliminary construction estimate of $4,968,000 has been made to implement the emergency operation of the heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems in the Capitol. Actual design will provide firm estimates. The Capitol Police Board has agreed with this project.

Security

$165,000

The U.S. Capitol Police master plan calls for the construction of a new chemical and explosives storage facility at their Canine Facility located at D. C. Village. Work will improve the existing explosives storage area, including building safety berms, providing lighting and power, providing security and fencing. Design funding was provided in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, Public Law 105-277. The Capitol Police Board has agreed with this project.

Replace Legislative Call System and Clocks

Category:

Cyclical Maintenance - Improvement

$1,150,000

Capitol Buildings Salaries and Expenses

Capital Budget Projects Beginning in Fiscal Year 2002

Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Estimate

The House and Senate Legislative Call systems are carrier current systems which distribute signals to the 5000 Legislative Call bells and lights via the electric power system, throughout the Capitol Complex. The carrier current system is also used to provide time correction signals to thousands of clocks.

These systems are 30 years old and have deteriorated due to age. Except for the Hart Senate Office Building system, which was installed in 1982, all the other building legislative call systems were installed during the 1960s. In order to maintain the reliability of the systems, the controls and the generating equipment should be replaced.

Based on presently known costs, it is estimated that a total of $2,300,000 may be required for replacement costs. Once the design is complete, however, firm cost estimates will be available for future budget requests. It is anticipated that funds will be requested in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 for replacement of the system.

Design, Upgrade Building Systems, Capitol Building Category:

Cyclical Maintenance - Improvement

$4,000,000

Based on current and projected demands for increased capability of the telecommunications and electrical systems as well as ongoing programs for the installation of fire protection systems and advanced security systems in the U.S. Capitol Building, a project to provide for the systematic and coordinated upgrade of theses important systems has begun. With the exception of the work completed several years ago for the infill of the West Front Courtyards, no major comprehensive upgrades of the building systems have occurred.

It is proposed that a design program to provide specific design solutions for upgrades to major systems and infrastructure in the building be undertaken in fiscal year 2002. A preliminary study was funded in fiscal year 1999. This project involves installation of new telecommunication and power distribution systems, evaluation, modification or replacement of various air conditioning systems, coordination of the installation of a smoke detection and sprinkler system, structural review of certain locations, review of water, and

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Capital Budget Projects Beginning in Fiscal Year 2002

Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Estimate

electrical supply services for proper sizing, and alterations to the toilet rooms taking advantage of the new plumbing system that is currently being installed. Additionally, space for new telecommunications closets will be developed to support the increased demand for this type of utilitarian space. Development and implementation of the security system upgrades will be closely coordinated with the U.S. Capitol Police's Physical Security Division.

The monumental nature of the building as well as the architecturally sensitive aspects of many of the spaces will require close coordination with art and room restoration/renovation programs funded under separate allotments. As spaces are made available for restoration and modernization, the designs resulting for the first phase of this project for system upgrades will be implemented in an efficient and comprehensive manner.

Construction is currently estimated at $40 million which will be refined as part of the design process. Current plans call for requesting construction funding in four equal phases beginning in fiscal year 2004. The final phasing will be determined during the design process which may call for the phasing to be spread over more years because of access constraints.

Cyclical Maintenance - Improvement

$300,000

It is proposed to request design funding of $300,000 in fiscal year 2002 and construction funds of $3 million in fiscal year 2004 to construct a Centralized Maintenance Facility for Electronic Systems. This facility would provide for the "operational health" and maintenance monitoring of all modernized committee room sound systems. As the deployment of new digitally-operated audio systems expands, it is possible to monitor, control, trouble shoot and correct system problems from a centralized location. This capability would provide immediate support, improved performance and reliability of the sound systems in the approximate 106 Senate and House hearing rooms in which sound systems exist. The centralized maintenance and monitoring redundancy will improve response time, productivity and efficient use of staff resources. The cost estimate includes both the central facility, the infrastructure (interconnections), and the provisions needed in each hearing room to provide this service.

21'000'000