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The dairy barn building was renovated between 1969 and 1971 with funds from the Old Dominion Foundation and it then provided the main administrative and laboratory space. In 1974, a request was made for foundation support and other private funds to construct an education building to be used to house students and provide for public programs, workshops and seminars. This facility was completed in 1975. Because of increases in the Center's staff after 1971, and a lack of additional space in the Old Dominion Building, all of the subsequent new staff were housed in trailers acquired as surplus. These proved to be generally inferior for research use.

Currently, the Bay Center has developed a phased facilities renovation and improvement plan which provides in modular fashion additional space for research, education, administration, and services as they are required. Phase I of this six-phase program was constructed in FY 1978 and FY 1979 with approximately $548,000 of nonappropriated funding, and provides 5,000 square feet for chemical laboratory needs. Phase II construction, a maintenance and shop building, has been completed using $150,000 of appropriated funds provided in FY 1979 and $124,000 in FY 1980. Phase III construction, the final phase planned at this time, includes about 15,000 square feet of sophisticated laboratory space and other administrative facilities. The Smithsonian plans to seek construction authorization for this project, and appropriations in FY 1984 for design ($280,000) and in FY 1985 for construction ($2,920,000). At the Bay Center's Poplar Island field station, efforts have been made to provide for low-cost shoreline erosion control, but it now appears unlikely that large-scale efforts at controlling erosion will be economically feasible.

In FY 1981, $250,000 is being used to upgrade the water supply and distribution systems at the Center. Approximately $3,780,000 additional funding will be sought over the balance of this planning period.

[[underlined]] Radiation Biology Laboratory Relocation [[/underlined]]

By the year 1990, it will be necessary to acquire appropriate new quarters for the Radiation Biology Laboratory currently located in leased space at Rockville, Maryland. It has been the Institution's experience that technically adequate space needed by the Laboratory is acquired by lease only at significant expense and with less than satisfactory results.

Over the next several years, the Institution expects to complete a study of the Laboratory's space requirements, and to explore how these could be met by further development of existing Smithsonian property such as Front Royal, Virginia.

[[underlined]] Cooper-Hewitt Museum [[/underlined]]

The Cooper-Hewitt Museum comprises the Carnegie Mansion and the adjacent Miller House, donated to the Institution in 1972. At present, only the Mansion is fully functioning. Using private donations and unrestricted trust funds, it was restored and adapted to museum purposes over a four-year period, opening to the public in October 1976.