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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   1613

The National Park Service has continued to work on the Zoo bypass road, involving the relocation of Beach Drive. It was expected that the roadway, the tunnel under Administration Hill, the south bridge over Rock Creek, and the north bridge at Harvard Street which provided an entrance to the Zoo, would be completed by the summer of 1965.

For 1964, an appropriation request for $1,275,000 was included in the Appropriation Bill passed by the House of Representatives on April 2, 1963. This bill would provide construction funds for the hardy-hoofed stock exhibit (cattle, buffalo, bison, yak, oxen, antelope and camels), mechanical shops, incinerator, and automobile parking areas.

The Secretary further reported that it was planned to accelerate the installation of sewerage in the Zoo in order to remove this source of pollution from Rock Creek by 1965. At that time the District of Columbia expected to have eliminated all other sources of pollution of the Creek.

SELECTION OF AN ARCHITECT FOR 1964 PLANNING AT NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

The Secretary reported that the architectural firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall had been performing design services for the National Zoological Park. This firm prepared the master plan and had been recommended by General Clarke, Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, to the Board of Regents to continue as architect-engineer for improvements at the Zoo during fiscal year 1964. Dr. Fleming stated he considered General Clarke to be a fine engineering officer and he would take his recommendation. On motion by Dr. Greenewalt, seconded by Dr. Haskins, and carried it was 

VOTED that the Board of Regents approves of the selection of the architectural firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall for planning services for the National Zoological Park during fiscal year 1964.

PRIVILEGED CONCESSION AT THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

The Secretary reported that The Friends of the Zoo, a tax-exempt, educational, not-for-profit corporation had requested the Board of Regents to sponsor legislation which would permit The Friends of the Zoo to operate and receive revenue from concessions of a