EXECUTIVE DIRECTION AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

An increase of 88 positions and $1.1 million is requested for executive direction and technical support. Of this amount, only seven positions and $133,000 are requested for policy, planning and budgeting, add special programs conducted directly out of the Commissioner's Office.

Twenty-nine positions and $437,000 are requested for agency administrative services. These are directly related to the increased workload placed on such activities as shipping and warehousing, mail and messenger, facilities management, management services, personnel, and training. In particular, FDA is planning to explore a new training concept where the agency itself will provide additional technical training to its employees to keep them abreast of developments in their fields. This will include training in advanced analytical methods, pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry, and manufacturing technology.

An increase of 52 positions and $532,000 is requested for technical support, including 46 positions for our science information activities and 6 positions for laboratory services.

SUMMARY

Of the 720 new positions requested, 302 positions are field positions and 418 will be located at headquarters. Viewed in another way, 500 of the increase is for work directly in the vital drug area and the remainder is for work in foods, pesticides, and general support.

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

For construction, alteration, and equipment of facilities, including acquisition of sites, and planning, architectural, and engineering services, [$5,720,000] $4,080,000, to remain available until expended.

Amounts available for obligation

Appropriation..

Unobligated balance brought forward.

Comparative transfer from "Pharmacological Animal Laboratory building,
FDA".

Unobligated balance carried forward..

Obligations by object

Unobligated balance brought forward.-A total of $16,844,583 from prior year appropriations is brought forward in fiscal year 1967. Of this amount, $3,820,000 is needed for construction of Beltsville Laboratory No. 1, and $15,000 for portable equipment for the Animal Whelping Building. The balance of $13,009,593 is for completion of the current district office modernization program, including construction at Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Headquarters laboratory facilities.—An amount of $950,000 is requested to plan a second laboratory building to house approximately 650 scientific personnel at the Beltsville site.

District office facilities.-A total of $3,130,000 is requested for the field facilities program. Of this amount, $398,000 is requested to provide portable equipment for the St. Louis and San Francisco district offices. Additional construction funds in the amount of $1,732,000 are requested for underfunded planning, site acquisitions, and construction costs at Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. An amount of $1 million is requested to permit new fixed equipment contracts for the Chicago, St. Louis, and Seattle district offices.

Planning funds amounting to $245.000 were appropriated in fiscal year 1964. Funds amounting to $3,740,000 were included in the fiscal year 1965 Appropriation Act to prepare a site and construct the building. The following factors are responsible for the delays experienced to date:

1. The original schedule did not consider the FDA reorganization of February 1964. Necessary program changes delayed the project 9 months.

2. Originally, it was estimated that it would take 1 month to award the planning contract. In actuality, it took 3 months, thereby causing a delay of 2 months.

3. Construction was originally planned to take 15 months. Eighteen months now appear necessary, thereby increasing the project delay by 3 months.

4. Originally, it was estimated that approval of the original submission of diagrammatics by the architect-engineer would require 2 weeks. In actuality, the resubmissions have taken an additional 4 months.

5. Delays in approval of diagrammatics and resolution of project funding caused a 5-month lag in the project.

The following table compares the construction schedules for Beltsville Laboratory No. 1:

1 Major reorganization (effective February 1964) changed occupants and program, thus requirements.

FISCAL YEAR 1967 PROGRAM INCREASES

Beltsville Laboratory No. 2

In recent years, funds have been appropriated to provide FDA with modern and efficient laboratory facilities for all of its scientific staff, both at headquarters and in the field. This program of improved laboratory facilities was undertaken to correct the substandard facilities occupied by FDA prior to 1960. The program has been supported by both the executive branch and by the Congress. This program is well along in the field. However, at headquarters, despite

the recent completion of the downtown Washington headquarters building (FB-8), satisfactory housing for all present and future scientific staff is not yet in sight. In fiscal year 1966, conversion of 15,000 square feet of office space to laboratories in FB-8 will ease the space situation slightly, but no major relief will be obtained until the early part of fiscal year 1969 when Beltsville Laboratory No. 1 will be occupied. By then, the headquarters scientific staff again will have expanded beyond our building capacities. FDA's long-range forecast projects a buildup in the headquarters scientific staff of approximately 150 or more per year through fiscal year 1970. This growth is necessary if the agency is to meet the scientific and technological problems that will confront us over the period, and the consequent emphasis that must be placed on our research facilities.

A projection of the FDA scientific staff needing laboratory facilities, assuming a growth rate of about 150 per year, indicates a space deficit for approximately 650 positions in fiscal year 1970 under current facility planning. This is because some space currently occupied must be relinquished in the next several years, and Beltsville Laboratory No. 1 will not be ready for occupancy until the early part of fiscal year 1969.

To alleviate this headquarters space deficit, funds are requested in this budget for planning a second research laboratory building at Beltsville to house a staff of approximately 650 people. This facility, which would become available in fiscal year 1971, would permit FDA to concentrate its scientific staff in two locations: FB-8 and Beltsville. In turn, this will permit better communication between our scientists and administrators and their colleagues in the Washington scientific community.

The fiscal year 1966 President's budget requested funds for a second laboratory at Beltsville. However, planning authority for that facility was not granted in the fiscal year 1966 appropriation. Not having this facility will hamper the agency's research and other scientific projects, and may necessitate continuation of laboratory operation under crowded conditions in substandard space, etc., until facilities are authorized and become available.

An amount of $950,000 is requested for planning this 650-man facility which will. in addition to the scientific staff, make provisions for the necessary maintenance and custodial staff for the Beltsville complex. The construction schedule for Beltsville No. 2 is as follows: Program requirements, December 1966; planning contract award, February 1967; planning phase completed, August 1968; construction contract award, December 1968; construction completion, September 1970. II. Construction of district facilities

Funds have been previously appropriated for construction of the facilities and all related fixed (built-in) equipment at two new district offices at St. Louis and San Francisco. There still remains, however, a requirement for portable equipment which is essential to full utilization of these facilities. Funds in the amount of $398,000 are requested for the purchase of this equipment in order to complete all equipment requirements for the district office modernization program.