I might tell my friends at the Smithsonian Institution that there is a vote in the Senate. The February issue of the Smithsonian magazine, copies of which were provided to the Subcommittee, contained an article explaining to our Resident and National Associates the concept and plan for the Quadrangle. We are now working with the Fine Arts Commission on the final details of the landscape plans.
Construction of the Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, was largely completed in January 1983. On our current schedule, the relocation of the collections of the National Museum of Natural History/Museum of Man and the National Museum of American History to the Center is expected to be completed in approximately three years. The FY 1984 storage equipment request of $2.4 million will be used for the Vertebrate Zoology collection and related collections of the National Museum of American History.
100,000 is proposed in this year's budget to prepare for the reception of the Sackler collection. As mentioned above, take advantage of the opportunity presented to us by the very generous. Hirshhorn Bequest, an amount of $200,000 is proposed to establish a loan program for the exhibition and study of a substantial portion of the Hirshhorn Bequest.
Likewise, we seek to continue the major exhibitions program in FY 1984 and beyond to support the extensive modernization of the exhibition spaces at the National Museum of American History and select major exhibitions elsewhere in the Smithsonian museums.
RENTAL COSTS
With your permission we would like to submit for the record a detailed explanation of the planned use of the quantity of. When the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Hanard College Observatory libraries were consolidated in fiscal year 1974, the SAO's proportionate share to occupy approximately 45 percent (5,080 square feet) of the new library's 11,290 square feet >' space was S55,000 a year. If SAO receives the S55,OO0 requested to cover rental space in fiscal year 1984, funds currently used for this purpose will be returned to the research budget.
MUSEUM SUPPORT CENTER EQUIPMENT COSTS
The installation is expected to be completed in September 1983. At that time the relocation of the Sorting Center will begin. Once the equipment is installed, we estimate it will take 9.5 months to complete the move of materials from the Sorting Center to the Support Center. Therefore, the amount of $260,000 specified in the FY 1984 budget request for the Sort Center will be needed in FY 1984.
The rental space total reported on page A-7 of the budget presentation was an incorrect figure and did not take into account the $140,000 congressional reduction in fiscal year 1983. An increase of $425,000 is requested to cover 15 positions at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory contribute to the federal payroll. This position increase is not reflected in the full-time permanent positions for SAO listed on page A-24 of the justification.
Even if you can't get a change in your ceilings, you will get it without the change in the ceiling, that. Reed, on behalf of the committee, I would like to express our appreciation for your help, advice, and leadership. Last fall, the Smithsonian proposed a deer hunt on the Front Royal Reservation to thin the herd.
I personally favor controlled hunting as a wildlife management technique and expressed my support for the Smithsonian's decision. They dig in the ground to get the roots of the trees and they bark trees. We do have a solution to the problem, which is to take down parts of the fence and allow the deer to migrate to our neighbors'.
That solution involves, as he suggested, lowering the fence in more remote areas of our reserve, but at the same time building an additional "double" fence around the more intensively used areas of the reserve. They can roam freely within certain areas of the reserve, and this is how it has always been. The problem was the encroachment of the wild deer into these areas and the subsequent transmission of disease.
HIRSKHORN MUSEUM'S EXTENDED LOAN PROGRAM
We currently don't know largely because we don't even know which institutions would borrow the work.
SACKLER GALLERY
While contracts for the acquisition are being let, the delivery of the equipment has not yet begun. Question: As part of the grant proposal for the financial year 1983, the non-personnel funds linked to the Center for the Study of Man are included in the State Natural History Museum's budget. A reprogramming report dated March 4, 1983 shows that in the fiscal year it was reprogrammed to finance publication costs for the State Museum of Natural History.
We understand that you are considering merging the Radiation Biology Laboratory and the Chesapeake Bay Center. Also planned for the summer of 1983 is the merger of the Radiation Biology Laboratory with the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies. Currently, federal funds are used primarily for the staffing costs of the Postal Service's Public Research Center activity and for temporary program assistants.
Q: Two positions and several thousand dollars were transferred from the clerk's office. Both employees involved bring experience that will be useful to the new organization. Question: 80 additional positions are requested to staff the Museum Support Center, bringing the total to 116.
Answer: According to the current plan, the Museum Support Center will be staffed in 1988 with 145 jobs. The foundation receives a percentage of the enrollment fees that students pay to universities. The requirement for this type of documentation is included in the Code of Professional Ethics.
Answer: The purpose of the inventory is to record items and their locations in the Smithsonian collections. In general, no funds were budgeted for photography as part of the overall inventory program. The same procedure was followed in FY 1980 and FY 1981 in the case of the requests for funds for the Office of Protective Services, the Office of Plant Services, and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in connection with the acquisition of the National Museum of African Art.
This investment in the modernization and integration of Smithsonian information systems is expected to result in a significant enhancement of the institution's capability. The Smithsonian's Office of Photographic Services set up a time-lapse camera in the south tower of the castle to record progress twice a day.
SUBCOMMITTEE RECESS
Answer: Non-appropriated resources are used for the film projects, while appropriated funds are used for still photography.
