85th Congress, S. 3335 AN ACT 72 Stat. 1698. To provide for a National Cultural Center which will be constructed, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, on a site made available in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "National Cultural Center National Act". BOARD OF TRUSTEES SEC. 2. (a) There is hereby established in the Smithsonian Institution a bureau, which shall be directed by a board to be known as the Trustees of the National Cultural Center (hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Board"), whose duty it shall be to maintain and administer the National Cultural Center and site thereof and to execute such other functions as are vested in the Board by this Act. The Board shall be composed as follows: The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Librarian of Congress, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, the Chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, the President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Chairman of the District of Columbia Recreation Board, the Director of the National Park Service, the Commissioner of the United States Office of Education, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three Members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives ex officio: and fifteen general trustees who shall be citizens of the United States, to be chosen as hereinafter provided. (b) The general trustees shall be appointed by the President of the United States and the members of the first Board shall have terms expiring three at the end of two years, three at the end of four years, three at the end of six years, three at the end of eight years, and three at the end of ten years, after the date of enactment of this Act. The term of office of each member of the Board subsequently appointed shall be ten years except that a successor appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of such term shall be appointed only for the remainder of such term. (c) There shall be an Advisory Committee on the Arts composed of such members as the President may designate, to serve at the pleasure of the President. Persons appointed to the Advisory Committee on the Arts, including officers or employees of the United States, shall be persons who are recognized for their knowledge of, or experience or interest in, one or more of the arts in the fields covered by the National Cultural Center. The President shall designate the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Arts. In making such appointments the President shall give consideration to such recommendations as may from time to time be submitted to him by leading national organizations in the appropriate art fields. The Advisory Committee on the Arts shall advise and consult with the Board and make recommendations to the Board regarding existing and prospective cultural activities to be carried on in the National Cultural Center. The Advisory Committee on the Arts shall assist the Board in carrying out section 5 (a) of this Act. Members of the Advisory Committee on the Arts shall serve without compensation, but each member of such Com. mittee shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by him in connection with the work of such Committee. Cultural 72 Stat. 1699. NATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER SEC. 3. The Board shall construct for the Smithsonian Institution, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, a building to be designated as the National Cultural Center on a site in the District of Columbia bounded by the Inner Loop Freeway on the east, the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge approaches on the south, Rock Creek Parkway on the west, New Hampshire Avenue and F Street on the north, which shall be selected for such purpose by the National Capital Planning Commission. The National Capital Planning Commission shall acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, lands necessary to provide for the National Cultural Center and related facilities. Such building shall be in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Commission of Fine Arts. DUTIES OF THE BOARD SEC. 4. The Board shall (1) present classical and contemporary music, opera, drama, dance, and poetry from this and other countries, (2) present lectures and other programs, (3) develop programs for children and youth and the elderly (and for other age groups as well) in such arts designed specifically for their participation, education, and recreation, and (4) provide facilities for other civic activities at the Cultural Center. POWERS OF THE BOARD SEC. 5. (a) The Board is authorized to solicit and accept for the Smithsonian Institution and to hold and administer gifts, bequests, or devises of money, securities, or other property of whatsoever character for the benefit of the National Cultural Center. Unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, bequest, or devise, the Board is authorized to sell or exchange and to invest or reinvest in such investments as it may determine from time to time the moneys, securities, or other property composing trust funds given, bequeathed, or devised to or for the benefit of the National Cultural Center. The income as and when collected shall be placed in such depositaries as the Board shall determine and shall be subject to expenditure by the Board. (b) The Board shall appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a director, an assistant director, and a secretary of the National Cultural Center and of such other officers and employees of the National Cultural Center as may be necessary for the efficient administration of the functions of the Board. The director, assistant director, and secretary shall be well qualified by experience and training to perform the duties of their office. (c) The actions of the Board, including any payment made or directed to be made by it from any trust funds, shall not be subject to review by any officer or agency other than a court of law. ADMINISTRATION SEC. 6. (a) The Board is authorized to adopt an official seal which shall be judicially noticed and to make such bylaws, rules, and regulations, as it deems necessary for the administration of its functions under this Act, including, among other matters, bylaws, rules, and regulations relating to the administration of its trust funds and the organization and procedure of the Board. The Board may function 72 Stat. 1700. notwithstanding vacancies and eight members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (b) The Board shall have all the usual powers and obligations of a trustee in respect of all trust funds administered by it. (c) The Board shall submit to the Smithsonian Institution an annual report of its operations under this Act, including a detailed statement of all public and private moneys received and disbursed by it. TERMINATION SEC. 7. (a) This Act shall cease to be effective, and all offices created by this Act and all appointments made under this Act shall terminate, if the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution does not find that sufficient funds to construct the National Cultural Center have been received by the Trustees of the National Cultural Center within five years after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) If the offices of Trustees of the National Cultural Center terminate under the provisions of subsection (a), all funds and property (real and personal) accepted by the Trustees of the National Cultural Center under section 3 (a), and income therefrom, shall vest in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and shall be used by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the transfer of the Civil Service Commission Building in the District of Columbia to the Smithsonian Institution to house certain art collections of the Smithsonian Institution," approved March 28, 1958, and for the acquisition Ante, p. 68. of works of art to be housed in the building referred to in such Act. Approved September 2, 1958. 85th Congress, H. R. 12883 AN ACT 72 Stat. 1714. To provide for certain improvements relating to the Capitol Power Plant and its distribution systems. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Architect Capitol Power of the Capitol, under the direction of the House Office Building Plant, improveCommission, is hereby authorized and directed to effect the following ments. improvements, with such modifications as the Commission may approve, relating to the Capitol Power Plant and its distribution systems: (1) Install, in addition to the present boiler equipment, four new boilers, each approximately fifty thousand pounds per hour capacity, two hundred fifty pounds per square inch gage, including necessary auxiliary equipment, in the existing Capitol Power Plant building for supplying steam and other required services for the buildings now supplied by the plant, for the Additional House Office Building and other improvements authorized by the Additional House Office Building Act of 1955, approved April 22, 1955 (69 Stat. 41, 42), and for other additions and improvements authorized to be supplied with steam from the Capitol Power Plant; also install a fuel storage and distribution system at the Capitol Power Plant, including additions to the existing railroad siding at the Capitol Power Plant. (2) Install at the Capitol Power Plant, in lieu of existing deteriorated equipment, new coal-handling equipment of increased capacity and make necessary changes to the existing coal storage bunkers in the Capitol Power Plant to effect improvements in operation. (3) Increase the capacity of the refrigeration plant at the Capitol Power Plant from eight thousand eight hundred tons to approximately fourteen thousand eight hundred tons of refrigeration by the installation of two or more centrifugal compressor units, complete with pumps and necessary auxiliary equipment and connect the same to the existing chilled water distribution systems; install an additional cooling tower at the Capitol Power Plant to supply cooling water for the expanded refrigeration plant, together with necessary cooling water pumps, piping and valves; install transformer and electrical equipment, and all other necessary incidental items-all as required to supply chilled water for the buildings now supplied by the plant, for the additional House Office Building and other improvements authorized by the Additional House Office Building Act of 1955, approved April 22, 1955 (69 Stat. 41, 42), and for other additions and improvements authorized to be supplied with refrigeration from the Capitol Power Plant. (4) Install in the existing subway between the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings, in lieu of existing piping, new chilled water pipes of increased capacity. (5) Install new underground chilled water piping between the present terminus of the pipe tunnel under Constitution Avenue west of First Street Northeast and the new chilled water pipes to be installed under paragraph (4) of this section, and connect the same with the existing chilled water system. (6) Install new steam pipes of increased capacity in the existing pipe tunnel under the courtyard of the Senate Office Building; install new steam pipes in the basement of the Senate Office Building from the west end of the courtyard tunnel to the existing subway between the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings, through such subway 72 Stat. 1715. Appropriation. to the Capitol Building, and through the Capitol Building to the House wing of the Capitol and connect the same to the existing services in the Capitol Building. Discontinue the use of, and remove, the existing steam pipes between Independence Avenue and the Capitol Building which conflict with the new subways to be constructed between the House Office Buildings and the Capitol Building; and discontinue the use of, and remove, the obsolete steam piping under the Capitol Grounds and plaza which presently supply steam to the Capitol Building. (7) Modify and improve the steam pipe expansion systems in the existing pipe tunnel between the Senate Office Building and the Government Printing Office so that the transmitting capacity of the entire Capitol Power Plant steam distribution system can be increased from one hundred twenty pounds per square inch to two hundred pounds per square inch, which is the present generating pressure of the boilers in the Capitol Power Plant. (8) Replace the deteriorated cork insulation on the chilled water pipes in the pipe tunnel under South Capitol Street between the Capitol Power Plant and the New House Office Building and install new pipe connections from the South Capitol Street tunnel to the Additional House Office Building, referred to in paragraph (1) of this section, to supply chilled water for air conditioning in that building. (9) Install new steam and condensate return connections from the existing steam duct under South Capitol Street to the Old House Office Building, via C Street Southeast, to supply steam for heating and other existing services in the Old House Office Building, and abandon the existing steam tunnel under First Street Southeast from the Capitol Power Plant to the Old House Office Building, which presently supplies the steam service for that building. (10) Install new steam and condensate return connections from the existing steam duct under South Capitol Street to the Additional House Office Building, referred to in paragraph (1) of this section, to supply steam for heating and other services in that building. (11) Install new steam and condensate return connections from the Additional House Office Building, referred to in paragraph (1) of this section, to the existing steam duct manhole near the intersection of Independence Avenue and First Street Southwest, to supply steam for heating and other existing services in the Botanic Garden, and abandon the steam duct under Independence Avenue between South Capitol Street and First Street Southwest which presently supplies steam service to the Botanic Garden. (12) Modify and improve the steam expansion systems now supplying the Capitol Building, the New House Office Building, and Botanic Garden, including the drainage of such systems, and make such replacements as may be necessary to the steam and condensate return pipes of such systems. SEC. 2. The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the House Office Building Commission, is hereby authorized and directed to enter into such contracts and to make such expenditures for labor, materials, equipment, personal and other services, structural and other changes, and other items and purposes, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated a total amount not to exceed $6,500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act, and the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the |