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The funds shown above represent the unobligated balance remaining available from the fiscal year 1962 appropriation for the Pharmacological-Animal Laboratory Building. This appropriation was authorized before the buildings and facilities account was established by congressional authorization in fiscal year 1964.

Amounts available for obligation

Appropriation..

Unobligated balance brought forward.

Comparative transfer from "Pharmacological Animal Laboratory Building,
FDA"

Unobligated balance carried forward...

Total...

Additional headquarters laboratory facilities..
District facilities...

Pharmacological-animal laboratory building..

Total

25 Other services..

31 Equipment..

32 Lands and structures.

Total..

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Summary of changes

1965 unobligated balance brought forward__

1966 enacted appropriation...

Comparative transfers from other accounts...

Total available for obligation, 1966––

Less: Unobligated balance brought forward, 1966.

Estimated obligations, 1966

Estimated obligations, 1967..

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$13, 729, 679 5, 720, 000 30, 693

19, 480, 372

-16, 844, 583

2, 635, 789

20, 924, 583

18, 288, 794

Unobligated balance brought forward_
District facilities, portable equipment..

Subtotal, mandatory increases.

Program:

Planning for an additional headquarters laboratory facility...
Additional construction funds, district facilities---
Additional equipment funds, district facilities--

Subtotal, program increases..

Gross increases___

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DECREASES

Special Pharmacological Animal Laboratory.

Beltsville Laboratory No. 1............

Federal Office Building No. 8, conversion..

Federal Office Building No. 8, portable equipment_
New York district portable equipment..
District facilities__

Gross decreases__.

Total net change requested---

EXPLANATION OF CHANGES

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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.

EXPLANATION OF TRANSFERS

In 1966, a comparative transfer to "Buildings and facilities" totaling $30,693 is shown for the following account:

Comparative transfer from Pharmacological-Animal Laboratory Build- Amount ing, FDA....

$30, 693

This transfer is shown in the budget schedules to provide comparability between the fiscal years 1966 and 1967 budgets.

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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 (Federal Building No. 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 Federal Building No. 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 activities.

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 early 1970, would permit FDA to concentrate its scientific staff in two locations: Federal Building No. 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 facilitty 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 provision for the necessary maintenance and custodial staff for the Beltsville complex.

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