Mr. TAYLOR. I have a number of questions in some other areas, but I would like to take up the Visitors' Center and go around the Committee because I think all of us have special questions in that

area.

Mr. Pastor, do you have questions?

Mr. PASTOR. As I recall, we saw the model and then there were some additions and tunnels and whatnot. Now, what was the final consensus of what was going to be added or not added?

Mr. HANTMAN. The members of the Preservation voted basically to approve, I think about four or five specific line items. First line item specifically related to the location for the Visitors' Center itself, which is on the east front of the Capitol. That was approved. The second line item dealt with the issue of these new elevators and stairs in the east front of the Capitol for $5 or $6 million additionally. That also was included. Another line item of I believe it was $10 or $12 million-was to take the truck entrance access across Constitution Avenue to New Jersey Avenue so we would not have to have a gouge in the Olmsted landscape plan and the security problem of every time a truck entered or left the Visitors' Center having police stop the pedestrians who are walking on the grounds in that area.

So that also was approved. I think one of the issues dealt with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate being given clearance to develop a plan to raise private funds to supplement the $100 million that was originally appropriated. Those were the major issues that were raised and approved. In addition to that, several issues were raised relative to, say, a Library of Congress tunnel, the possibility of bringing_one from the Jefferson Building over to the new Visitors' Center. So we are actually dotting our i's and crossing our t's in this validation planning study to be able to look at that possibility of the tunnel, the pluses and the minuses, the costs, the implications of running above the Amtrak tunnel, and the security issues relative to screening people on the library side versus the CVC side as well. So that is being studied as are several other issues raised by members of the staff.

VISITOR CENTER DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Mr. PASTOR. So right now you are doing a letter of intent for the design work which is getting to be 6 months?

Mr. HANTMAN. That is correct, sir.

Mr. PASTOR. What issues are still outstanding that will not be covered by this design? If I am going to do a letter of intent for design work, I am assuming that all of the issues are resolved and the design work is going to be for the final product. So the reason I asked the first question was there are still issues out there that are not finalized, and how are we doing a design letter of intent when there is still a few issues out there that aren't resolved?

Mr. HANTMAN. Two things. First of all, one of the elements that I neglected to mention in response to your first question was the expansion area relative to the Capitol Visitors' Center. There is 150,000 square feet split evenly between the House and the Senate. That also was approved. As far as the design is concerned, design development is just that. We have a concept now. We have the lay