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B-151369-O.M. 1 (1963-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadwbs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 47UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 25, D.C. VIL ,COUNTNG AND APR2 AUDITIG DIVISION The Comptroller General The Agriemlt-aal Research Servic, (ARS) Department of Agriculture,, is sabst~ntially altering a balding, owned and saijtalsd by the ageny, to prowide .an additolnal laboratory for rseareh wpv7e ses. The agezny does not 0onsider that the prvisions of section 3733 Revised Statutes, 41 U.S.C. 12, are apl ebl to thes alterationt an5 tkerefee the 0ost of thoe ldig alterations are not deemed smbject to the nonstary 1100attng Imposed UY the Congress in the agency's appzpriatido acts. We question, the agenoy's decision to exclvis the bmilding alterations from the provisions of section 3733. I bririg fiscal year 1961, the agency began altering WI ~nt' l. '179.~ a former bill barnu located at the Agricul- t ra-L Resazvh Center, Sltsville, Md. The cost of the buildink at th* start of the alteration vork, according to real property Inventory records was $27,000. The building is being altered to provide a laboratory primarily for research experiments to Identify the so-arees of infetion and environmntal eauses of ellnical mastitis in bovine animals.- The wart includes removing animal box stalls; pro- vdivg a&4d:tional eletriclty, heatIng, and water utilitles; istaLing a. tairway and ay chutel and eeeting interior eindar 'block walls br the enviro~ntal chaxbers (rooms for Controlfif t.eperatre and hurdiity) for 'ing ering and PbIS10egy rooms, a milk room, an equipment room, and a t0ilet room. The oet of this work is estimatd at about n', in aIdltion, t e cost of ptrhasi and install- ing insulatl n and eqrutpant tc produce the desired tefl~e ; ad humiditieS in the .lmatit chaers is iAi f March I, 1963, thea geny had r~erded expend- tire of a~prexi ly*~ OOC fO1r the vrko This &aut de S li inlud~ects to e ini~re6 for insulation and eqp~% Th esti~ted eaxpletion date for the lahe ! r -oy i Jun l963o 1 Zi~w' 4 4

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