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LCD-81-18 1 (1980-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbjy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED -HNot to he released outside the General PI % Accounting Office except ow the basis of specific approval .- -7 1_r2 by the Office of Congressional Relations. GAO United States General Accounting Office RELEASED Logistics and Washington, DC 20548 Communications . Division B-201506 DECEMBER 22, 1980 The Honorable Robert C. Byrd Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate 114087 Subject: fAdequacy of Insulation at Leetown -%aboratory, National Fish and Wild- life Service Department of the Interior (LCD-81-18) Dear Mr. Chairman: The General Accounting Office has inquired into the v engineering and design of the National Fish Health Research Laboratory, Leetown National Fisheries Center, West Virginia. Your subcommittee was concerned that the laboratory was erected without minimum insulation needs and that minimum temperatures could not be maintained during the winter months. According to National Fish and Wildlife Service (NFWS) officials, the laboratory's malfunctioning heating system, not its insulation, has made it impossible to maintain desired room temperatures in the laboratory during winter. NFWS engineers estimate that repairs to the heating system to ensure desired temperatures will cost $5,774. They also told us that, although additional insulation is not needed to correct the heating problem, it is needed to bring the laboratory into compliance with Executive Order 12003 dated July 20, 1977, which requires retrofitting of Government buildings to reduce energy consumption. BACKGROUND The laboratory was planned in 1974, its design was com- pleted in early 1976, and the contract for its construction was awarded in February 1977. NFWS engineers designed the laboratory and walls and windows, and a private contractor designed the mechanical systems, including heating, venti- lation, and air-conditioning. The heating system consists of a solar system supplemented by a heat pump and an oil-fired 573 ~(945199)

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