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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, Public Law 89-544. As a research facility using animals, the University is required to comply with standards and regulations governing the humane handling, care, and treatment of laboratory animals as outlined in Title 9, Chapter 1, Subchapter A, of the Federal Register, Vol. 32, No. 37. T h e present animal housing space, dispersed in sixteen departments at the Urbana-Champaign campus, fails to meet the standards established in this Act. Although the University has requested an extension of the time limit for compliance until late 1971 because of budgetary limitations, this request has not yet been approved. Consequently, the University of Illinois, as a research facility, is technically in violation of P.L. 89-544. Constructing a new facility is preferred to the alternative of upgrading existing space because the latter is overcrowded in terms of the standards, and upgrading it would reduce the capacity to house animals at a time when the demand for research animals is increasing. T o keep even the present number of animals properly housed, the University would be forced to convert other space in several locations to animal-holding quarters. Also, costly remodeling would provide only a temporary solution to the problem. The proposed facility would alleviate the crowded conditions in existing structures and would allow the employment of improved husbandry procedures designed to improve the health and quality of laboratory animals used in research. The proposed structure would facilitate accreditation of the Urbana-Champaign campus by the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care ( A A A L A C ) . Accreditation in the A A A L A C program would guarantee that laboratory animals at this campus are maintained under satisfactory conditions judged by national standards. This facility is programmed to contain 6,240 net assignable square feet. It will consist primarily of space for animal cages, storage of feed and refuse, and receiving and treatment rooms. Only two offices and a small necropsy room will be provided. In addition, certain air exchange and temperature controls will also be required. Speech and H e a r i n g Clinic Estimated total cost State funds Non-State funds Gross square feet Net assignable square feet Building efficiency $2 000 700 ($1 200 700) ($ 800 000) 29 265 17 560 60%

This facility will provide laboratory space for the undergraduates and for the clinical and research work of graduate students and faculty members in speech and hearing science. T h e present space is inadequate in amount and obsolete.— imposing great hardship upon the staff's efforts to maintain a research program and diagnostic and therapeutic services of high quality. The Clinic is housed in what are believed to be the poorest quarters among all such facilities used by other Illinois universities or by other Big Ten universities. The training program in speech pathology and audiology at the University has been accredited by the Education and Training Board of the American Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology — being one of seven such training programs to be accredited in the United States. The Speech and Hearing Clinic itself is one of only twenty-five such institutions in the country that have been approved for registration by the Professional Services Board of the American Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology; and it is the only one in Illinois with such approval. T o demonstrate the urgency of providing modern facilities for this program, both of these Boards included in their recommendations statements concerning the need for immediate improvement of the quality, quantity, and character of the physical facilities. The training and research activities carried on in the present locations are supported by grants from the U. S. Office of Education, the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Institute of Neurological and Sensory Diseases, and the Illinois Department of Public Health.