Complex Wide Fire Signaling System (continued)

protection monitoring system with the ability to provide emergency information to building managers, occupants and visitors on a timely basis.

Funds in the amount of $221,000 are requested for the acquisition and installation of this system. These funds were requested and denied in fiscal year 1992.

The Capitol Police requested that the Architect submit a budget in fiscal year 1991 for funding to extend the existing Advanced In Place Monitoring System (AIPMS). The AIPMS is currently installed in the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings. The expansion would include specific House Office Building spaces identified as Task No. 1 of the Phase III-H concept of the AIPMS.

1992.

Funds were requested and denied for this program in fiscal year The Capitol Police again requested that this program be included in the Architect's fiscal year 1993 budget. The Capitol Police Board gave its approval on November 30, 1991, to the Architect to proceed with a fiscal year 1993 budget request for this program.

The proposal for the furnishing and installation of the electronic security devices is $395,000 and the in-house costs for cabling and other installation support is $70,000. As this work must be performed by a qualified contractor, these funds are requested to be appropriated without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended.

The Capitol Police requested that a safe storage facility for explosives and tear gas be provided. The current facility, which cannot be relocated, must be abandoned when the current Anacostia Nursery site is turned over to WHATA. The Architect requested funds in the fiscal year 1992 budget for this purpose and the funds were denied.

The Capitol Police have again requested that the Architect include funds for this facility in the fiscal year 1993 budget. The estimated cost of this work is $15,000. Approval of this funding request for fiscal year 1993 was given by Capitol Police Board November 30, 1991.

Funds are requested to complete the digitization of Capitol Complex grounds from aerial photographs taken in 1986. To date, only Capitol jurisdiction) has Square (90 acres of the 210 acres under the Architect of the Capitol been digitized and incorporated into the CAD Though the aerial photographs cover the entire Capitol Complex, only Capitol Square has been completed.

database.

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This project would require necessary outside assistance from a qualified engineering consulting firm to complete this effort. current scope of the project would be to consolidate historical as well as information on surface and underground including all structures, characteristics streets, walks, landscape materials, and manholes into one CAD database onto which in house staff underground data, such as utility tunnels, conduits, subway tunnels,

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This effort will be invaluable in managing not only the physical appearance of the grounds, but the security of them as well. Examples of this program's use once it is completed include landscape planning and management, security planning for crowd control, Inaugural preparation, management of the underground utilities, exterior parking management and control, repaving schedules for sidewalks and streets, traffic planning and control, grounds lighting and street lighting programs, and coordination of all construction and renovation projects on the Grounds. The database would be capable of generating accurate and timely information for all these activities.

As an example, for Inaugurals, the database could generate drawings that indicate which manholes would require welding shut, where snow fencing would need to be erected for crowd management, which exterior parking would have to be temporarily suspended, locations of the underground sprinkler system that would have to be avoided by media trailers, where the stands would be erected, etc. From these drawings specific tasks could then be quickly and accurately accomplished.

Other examples of the database's need which are more commonplace occur when problems are experienced with an underground utility, whether it is PEPCO-owned, D.C.-owned, or AOC-owned. At the present time, the actual locations of all these utilities is generally known, but not specifically in all cases. When problems occur, the database would immediately identify the specific location of the utility. Engineers could then resolve the problem in the most timely and cost effective manner without unnecessary digging. This is also true of routing of new underground utilities, such as when the new conduit was run from the Rayburn Building to the Ford Building. An accurate

database of existing underground utilities and structures would have greatly facilitated that project. Upcoming needs for new conduit for telecommunications fiber would be more easily met if the CAD system could generate the needed planning information.

These funds were requested and deferred in fiscal years 1990, 1991 and 1992. They are again requested in fiscal year 1993.

The Capitol Police have again requested that additional security equipment be provided to secure the space in the City Post Office, known as Postal Square. The space is designated as a "Senate Office Building" and it will be occupied primarily by the Senate Computer Center during the late summer months of 1992. The Police have concluded that the planned building security is not sufficient to protect the highly sensitive and critical nature of the Computer Center's operation to the functioning of the Senate.

This project was requested and denied in fiscal year 1992. An amount of $40,000 is again requested for this purpose. In addition, language has been included in the "Capitol Buildings" appropriation to increase the limitation of cost for H. Con. Res. 550 as necessary. Approval of this funding request was provided by the Capitol Police Board August 23, 1991.

Funding in the amount of $190,000 is again requested for deployment of an electronic explosive detection system. This system represents the best available technology for use at the Off-Site Delivery Center. Utilization of such a device would prove to be an invaluable tool for detecting and preventing the introduction of explosives into and within the Capitol Building. An Explosive Detection System has recently been developed which is being marketed worldwide. The portability of this system provides for greater diversity within the Off-Site Delivery Center as well as for other applications as needed.

In addition, language has been included in the "Capitol Buildings' appropriation to increase the limitation of cost for H. Con. Res. 550 Although this particular type of item has never been as necessary. proposed under H. Con. Res. 550 authorization before, its function is similar to fall under the resolution's other items that scope. Therefore, it is proposed to include this and any subsequent explosive detection systems under the limitation of H. Con. Res. 550. These funds were requested and denied in fiscal year 1992. Approval of this funding request for fiscal year 1993 was provided by the Capitol Police Board August 23, 1991.