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For further information concerning the , contact the Secretary of the Senate, The Capitol, Washington, DC 20510. Phone, 202–224–2115. For further information concerning the House of Representatives, contact the Clerk, The Capitol, Washington, DC 20515. Phone, 202–225–7000. Telephone directories for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives are available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC 20515 Phone, 202–228–1793

Architect of the Capitol ALAN M. HANTMAN

The Architect of the Capitol is responsible for the care and maintenance of the U.S. Capitol and nearby buildings and grounds while implementing reconstruction and landscape improvement projects according to the original intent of the Capitol’s designers.

The Architect of the Capitol is charged Power Plant, his activities are subject to with operating and maintaining the the approval and direction of the House buildings of the Capitol committed to his Office Building Commission. The care by Congress. Permanent authority Architect is under the direction of the for these functions was established by Speaker in matters concerning the House the act of August 15, 1876 (40 U.S.C. side of the Capitol. Also, the Architect of 162, 163). The Architect’s duties include the Capitol serves as the Acting Director the mechanical and structural of the U.S. Botanic Garden under the maintenance of the Capitol, the Joint Committee on the Library. conservation and care of works of art in Until 1989, the position of Architect of the building, the upkeep and the Capitol was filled by Presidential improvement of the Capitol grounds, and appointment for an indefinite term. the arrangement of inaugural and other Legislation enacted in 1989 provided ceremonies held in the building or on that the Architect be appointed by the the grounds. Legislation is enacted from President for a 10-year term, with the time to time providing for additional of the Senate, from buildings and grounds to be placed a list of 3 candidates recommended by a under the jurisdiction of the Architect of congressional commission. Upon the Capitol. confirmation by the Senate, the Architect In addition to the Capitol, the becomes an official of the legislative Architect is responsible for the upkeep of branch as an officer and agent of all of the congressional office buildings, Congress and is eligible for the buildings, the reappointment after completion of his U.S. Supreme Court building, the term. Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary The Architect, whose original duties Building, the , the were limited to designing and Capitol Police headquarters, and the supervising the construction of the Robert A. Taft Memorial. The Architect Capitol, has assumed additional performs his duties in connection with responsibilities for activities that have the Senate side of the Capitol, the Senate been assigned to the office by Congress. office buildings, and the operation of the Today, in light of the widespread Senate restaurants subject to the activities under the jurisdiction of the approval of the Senate Committee on Architect of the Capitol, the Rules and Administration. In matters of administrative function challenges the general policy in connection with the architectural and engineering functions House office buildings and the Capitol of the office. 44 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Projects carried out by the Architect of conservation/renovation projects include the Capitol in recent years include the in the Capitol and renovation and restoration of the Statue a substantial barrier-removal program of Freedom, the Terrace, Courtyards, throughout the Capitol complex. Rotunda, and other areas in the Capitol, The Architect of the Capitol also and the Library of Congress; serves as a member of numerous procurement and installation of governing or advisory bodies, including: television and broadcasting facilities for , Capitol Guide the House and Senate chambers and Board, House of Representatives Page hearing rooms; improvements to building Board, District of Columbia Zoning utility, energy-management, and security Commission, Advisory Council on systems; installation of a Senate subway Historic Preservation, National Capital system; development and Memorial Commission, Art Advisory implementation of the Legislative Branch Committee to the Washington Telecommunications Network; plans for Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and the complete renovation of the U.S. the National Institute for Conservation of Botanic Garden Conservatory; the design Cultural Property. The Architect is an ex of a National Garden adjacent to the officio member of the U.S. Capitol Conservatory; and plans for a new Preservation Commission and the Capitol Visitor Center. The Architect also Commission on the Bicentennial of the oversaw the design and construction of U.S. Capitol. In addition, he serves as the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary the Coordinator of Civil Defense for the Building for the U.S. courts. Ongoing Capitol complex.

For further information, contact the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC 20515. Phone, 202–228–1793.

UNITED STATES BOTANIC GARDEN Office of Executive Director, 245 First Street SW., Washington, DC 20024 Phone, 202–225–8333 Conservatory, Maryland Avenue, First to Second Streets SW., Washington, DC 20024 Phone, 202–225–6647 Production Facility, 4700 Shepherd Parkway SW., Washington, DC 20032 Phone, 202–563–2220

Director (Architect of the Capitol) ALAN M. HANTMAN Executive Director JEFFREY P. COOPER-SMITH

The United States Botanic Garden is an institution of public education dedicated to demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, economic, therapeutic, and ecological importance of plants to the well-being of humankind.

The U.S. Botanic Garden carries out its beautification of the Capitol complex. mission by presenting artistic displays of Uniquely situated at the heart of the U.S. plants, exhibits, and a program of Government, the Botanic Garden seeks educational activities; promoting to promote the exchange of ideas and botanical knowledge through the information relevant to this mission cultivation of an ordered collection of among national and international visitors plants; fostering plant conservation by and policymakers. acting as a repository for endangered The Conservatory, one of the largest species; and growing plants for the structures of its kind in this country,