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laboratories. The Marine Fisheries' sea turtle and shrimp laboratory in 

 Galveston, Texas, previously was Fort Crockett, an Army post built in the 

 early 1900s. This laboratory needs about $4 muUion in repairs and 

 renovations, according to a noaa facilities manager. For example, a 

 facilities condition survey of the laboratory found that the main structural 

 beam and concrete floor slab in two original buildings had deteriorated to 

 the point of failure. (See fig. I.l.) One building, which includes the 

 laboratory director's office, was evacuated dunng 1992 until temporary 

 repairs were made to support the floor with hydraulic jacks and timbers. 

 Marine Fisheries' laboratories in Tiburon, California; Port Adams, Oregon; 

 and Montlake, Washington, also are using old federal facilities built more 

 than 50 years ago. Similarly, epa's Environmental Research Laboratory in 

 Gulf Breeze, Florida, originally was a yellow fever quarantine station 

 established by the Public Health Service around 1874. epa uses the site's 

 original houses mainly for office space and administrative support 

 activities. 



