Library Buildings and Grounds, Structural and Mechanical Care Capital Budget Projects Funded in Base

Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Estimate

Restoration Project and the Jefferson Building roof replacement project, have been cleared for reuse. The project will replace 9,000 square yards of existing sidewalk.

The cost of sidewalk replacement is based on a contractor lump sum bid, using previous costs with similar sidewalk replacement programs on the Capitol Grounds. Funds in the amount of $100,000 were appropriated in fiscal year 2000 to begin the work and are requested to remain in the base for each of the next four fiscal years.

Restore Decorative Painting, Jefferson and Adams Buildings Category: Cyclical Maintenance

$100,000 Priority: 2-B

The renovation and restoration of the Jefferson and Adams initiated the rehabilitation of decorative painting in certain areas of the buildings. Maintenance forces have employed some staffing for this activity. However, it is estimated that there is at least eight more years of work to complete the rehabilitation of the decorative painting. This request is to provide the third funding increment for this ten year program (funded in $100,000 increments annually). The funds will be used to contract out for the decorative painting effort. Biannual inspections of the murals and other painted surfaces will also be conducted by a professional conservator as part of the building conservation program.

Book Stack Lighting Controls, Jefferson and Adams Buildings Category:

Improvement - AOC

$200,000 Priority: 2-A

WIR MISH 12 CHILICUIJA the control of ligh To eliminate past and current problems with the control of lighting in the " e Thomas Jefferson and rson and John Adams B Adams Buildings book stacks, this project will provide for the replacement of the existing lighting control equipment with low voltage control relays and motion sensors. The new equipment will enable lighting to operate commensurate with the demand imposed by those using the book stacks. Further, the existing equipment is obsolete, energy inefficient and deteriorated causing replacement to be essential. This project will enable the book stack area lighting to be controlled in a similar fashion to that which was installed as part of the Renovation and Restoration Project. Funds were appropriated in fiscal year 1999 to begin the work. Additional funding in the amount of $200,000 was appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and it is requested that this amount remain in the base for fiscal year 2001. To complete the project $100,000 will be requested in the fiscal year 2002 budget.

Library Buildings and Grounds. Structural and Mechanical Care Capital Budget Projects Funded in Base

Preservations Environmental Monitoring

Category:

Improvement - Client

The Library of Congress Preservation Directorate has requested that comprehensive coverage be provided on the status of temperature and humidity in collection storage areas. The information will be used to determine the effect on the collections that are attributable to environmental conditions and fluctuations. The information will be transmitted using the existing AOC Hill-wide Energy Management and Control System (EMCS).

A section of the book stacks was provided with monitors that were installed by in-house forces in 1993. The existing monitors have been beneficial in providing valuable data for the Library staff to accomplish its mission "to sustain and preserve the collections". This estimate provides for expansion of the monitoring to include all book stack and collection storage areas. This expansion will enable the staff to detect problems in smaller, more specific, and discrete areas -- making correction of the problem more effective, efficient, and less of $100,000 was appropriated in fiscal year 2000, and is requested in each of the next two fiscal years to costly. Funding in the

Audio Visual Conservation Center, Culpeper, Virginia

Increase Requested:

Category:

A private donor, working with the Library of Congress and the Architect of the Capitol, completed an agreement with the Federal Reserve of Richmond for the purchase of their Culpeper, VA facility. On May 1, 1998, $10 million was provided by the donor for the acquisition, operations and design services for future modifications of the facility. The Library plans to use the existing facility for an audio visual conservation center.

Ownership of the facility is planned to be transferred to the Architect of the Capitol at the completion of construction. The Architect and the Library will operate the facility in a skeleton mode while initial construction improvements are being made by the private donor. These initial construction efforts will begin the process for developing the Culpeper site to properly house the Library's vast acetate and nitrate film collections now housed in Landover Center (GSA leased space) and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Air Force leased space).

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Library Buildings and Grounds, Structural and Mechanical Care Capital Budget Projects Funded in Base

Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Estimate

The funds reflected in this "No Year" request will provide matching funds for construction. Any request for appropriated funds will not exceed a three-to-one gift-to-appropriated funds ratio. It is requested that $5 million remain in the base for fiscal year 2002 and $4.9 million in fiscal year 2003.

Funding for the water and sewer payment as well as the Audio Visual Center in Culpeper, Virginia were included in both the Capitol Power Plant and Library Buildings and Grounds appropriations. In fiscal year 2000, the amount in the Power Plant appropriation was considered for water and sewer payments and in the Library Buildings and Grounds appropriation, $1.4 million is planned for water and sewer payments and $1.6 million for the Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia.

The funding, as outlined above, will provide the Library of Congress with $16.5 million for the Audio Visual Center, which is the amount the Library projects would be the appropriated funds required.

The Library has identified a number of critical space modifications, in the James Madison Building, that require AOC support. These space modifications accommodate organizational changes as well as a number of long-standing requirements that were delayed while the Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Buildings were being renovated. In fiscal year 1999, the scope of modified areas increased from approximately 40,000 square feet of space to 200,000 square feet. To enable the mission of the Library to be fulfilled requires that an increase of $335,000 in funding be provided for the renovation of work areas accordingly. The work requires the relocation of demountable partitions, relocation of fire protection equipment, and the installation of electrical fixtures. The scope of work has increased due to compliance for relocation of sprinkler heads and other Life Safety Safety related issues. The w issues. The work is accomplished through assignments to contractors.

The funding requested in fiscal year 2001 will be used to complete modifications in the Congressional Research Service space, as well as accomplish modifications in the Financial Services Directorate, the Office of General Counsel, the Information Technology Services Directorate, the Geography and Map Division, and the Copyright Register's Office. It would also fund an upgrade to the James Madison