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[[underlined]] Status Report on Major Construction [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]Study Center and Library Addition to the National Museum of History and Technology [[/underlined]]

The design contract with the General Services Administration for a sixth floor addition to the National Museum of History and Technology Building for the Museum's library and for its collections of archival material and graphic Americana is now 80% complete and will be 100% completed by late summer. If the appropriation request of $7,100,000 in the fiscal year 1978 budget to Congress is approved, contracting should commence by the second quarter of fiscal year 1978. The construction period is estimated at two years, with beneficial occupancy occurring in the second quarter of fiscal 1980.

[[underlined]] National Zoological Park [[/underlined]]

The education and administration building located near the Connecticut Avenue entrance was completed in January 1977, and is now occupied. The building contains a 300-seat auditorium for the public and three classrooms for school and public use. Under construction are new bear exhibits consisting of one new facility for grizzly bears, the second new facility for polar bears, and renovation of existing bear exhibits. The grizzly and polar bear exhibits will be completed by July of this year and the renovation of the existing bear exhibits by the fall. A necropsy facility to accommodate autopsy work on small and large animals is under construction and will be finished in June of this year. This facility will include a pathological incinerator for on-site disposal of potentially infectious carcass materials. The general services and parking facility which will provide new housing