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(d) A request of $3.300,000 for the co n struction of the Poultry Disease 

 Laboratory Addition. Athens. GeorgTa . 



Need for Change . New demands have been placed on USDA research 

 facilities at the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory with the 

 outbreak of Avian influenza in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland 

 in 1983 and 1984. This research laboratory carries out the primary 

 effort in ARS to solve Avian disease problems associated with 

 pathogens of foreign origin. This facility will meet both immediate 

 and long-range needs to allow ARS scientists to address the urgent 

 problems in lethal Avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease for 

 use by action agencies and the poultry industry. The facility is of 

 national importance since research for these two exotic avian 

 diseases is restricted to only the highest animal containment 

 laboratories. The addition of this facility will meet 

 high-containment needs to house research on highly lethal avian 

 influenza. 



Nature of Change . The new facility will provide about 16,000 

 square feet and will be a one-story structure containing animal 

 holding and laboratory spaces designed to safely contain the most 

 hazardous of poultry pathogens. ARS was appropriated $400,000 in FY 

 1992 for the planning and design of the facility. An additional 

 $677,000 was appropriated in FY 1993 for facility construction. ARS 

 is requesting an increase of $3.3 million in FY 1994 to provide for 

 the balance of construction funds for the facility, designed 

 primarily to house infected poultry as well as the necessary support 

 laboratories to carry out essential research on Avian influenza, 

 concurrent with exotic Newcastle disease research efforts in the 

 present containment space. This facility would provide for a more 

 comprehensive program of research to solve exotic diseases in 

 poultry. The full cost of construction of this facility is projected 

 at $4.5 million, including the $500,000 committed by the Poultry 

 Association towards the purchase of necessary equipment for the new 

 laboratory. 



(e) A decrease of $34,514,000 to delete funds provided in the FY 1993 

 Appropriation ActT 



Need for Change . Funds for projects contained in the FY 1993 

 Appropriation Act are available until expended and are not required 

 in FY 1994. 



