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PUBLIC LAW 85-895-SEPT. 2, 1958
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Public Law 85-895 September 2, 1958 [H.R. 12883]
C a p i to l Power Plant, i m p r o v e -
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AN ACT To provide for certain improvements relating to the Capitol Power Plant and its distribution sj-stems.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the House Office Building Commission, is hereby authorized and directed to effect the following 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 tnousand pounds per hour capacity, two hundred fifty pounds per square inch gage, including necessary auxiliary equipment, in the existing (^apitol 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 Powe!r Plant to supply cooling Avater 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 wnth 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 to the Capitol Building, and through the Capitol Building to the House
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