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PUBLIC LAW 178-AUG. 1, 1953
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$1,800 each, for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building; to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $779,600. PRELIMINARY P L A N S A N D ESTIMATES, ADDITIONAL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $850,000 provided in the Second Deficiency Appropriation 62 Stat. 1028. Act, 1948, for construction and equipment of an additional office building for the United States Senate, is hereby made available for expenditure for the preparation of additional preliminary plans and estimates of cost for an additional office building for the use of the United States Senate, designed primarily to provide additional office accommodations, such expenditure to be made by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction and supervision of the Senate Office Building Commission created by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 481), as amended by the Act of July 11, 1947 no1e°. ^^^ i74b-i (^Q^ g^at. 307), the membership of which is hereby increased from five to seven members, such additional members to be appointed by the President of the Senate. House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $972,000. Capitol Power P l a n t: For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of electrical energy), for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City Post Office, reimbursement for which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; personal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant, $1,330,600. Changes and improvements, Capitol Power P l a n t: Toward carrying out the changes and improvements authorized by the Act of October 63 Stat. 933. 26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress), $1,000,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the House Office Building Commission. Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, furnishings, equipment, labor and materials, and all necessary incidental expenses, to provide additional accommodations for the Senate restaurants, Senate Office Building, $4,250, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules and Adminis41 USC 5. tration, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
Structural and mechanical care: For the necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural maintenance, including minor improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $450,000. Furniture and furnishings: For furniture, partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, office and library equipment, apparatus, and labor-saving devices, $50,000.
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