European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 3. 1996 the stars and stripes Page 9 renovation of Pentagon planned remodelling Annex to Cost $ 1 billion by the Washington Post Washington the defense department i planning to spend almost is billion for a major Reno vation of the 44-year-old Pentagon building and construction of a four building Annex in in South parking101, according of Pentagon official. Under preliminary plans in will Cost $425 million to construct the new Annex and up to 1500 million for what officials describe As a top to Bottom rebuilding of the Pentagon. Calculated to provide 3 million Square feet of new office space and to accommodate i �500 additional employees they will be the largest office construction projects Ever undertaken in the Washington area. When it was constructed in 1942, the Pentagon Cost $83 million and consolidated the War depart ment from n locations into one. Department of defense rentals of non government owned office space have since ballooned to 71 buildings in the Washington area a number that officials Hope lore Duce to 45. The Pentagon project is so Large the general serv ices administration which lakes care of almost All government office construction does not have enough Money to finance it according to defense officials. Instead the Reagan administration is asking Congress to use military construction funds spread Over the next even years. The defense department tried to get the Pentagon construction program started this year but Congress walked at taking a first step. In he fiscal 1987 military construction Bill now on Capitol Hill the defense department sought s22.5 million to design the Annex and j2.5 million to begin site preparation. Officials also wanted congressional appropriations committees to reprogram some Sio million in fiscal 1986 air Force Money to begin design work in the next few months. However rep. . Bill Hefner , chair Man of the House appropriations subcommittee on military construction put a hold on both the repro Grammig and the first portion of the Money. Or Don t like the Way they handled it one con Gressional aide said recently. The Pentagon and  he said have been working on the project for More than a year but did not Tell the appropriations panel about it until last Spring and then Only after questions were raised in a Public hearing. In addition Virginia lawmakers criticized the effect it would have on traffic in the Pentagon area. The new comprehensive development plan for the Ith parking lot  site studies dating 10 1979. The Reagan administration s Sharp increase in de sense spending has brought a 10 percent to 15 percent growth in the number of Dod employees in the Washington area. As a result the Cost of rented office space doubled in five years from $41 million in 1980 to js7 million in 1985. More than half of the Washington area s 70.800 Dod employees Are now in rented build Ings and their numbers Are growing. At the same Lime the amount of less costly government owned space occupied by the defense department has actually dropped slightly from 8.6 million Square feet 10 8.5 million Square feet. Aside from the need for additional space the Pentagon which provides 6 million Square feet of government owned defense office space is rapidly deteriorating. Portions Are becoming unusable sources said. Water leaks antiquated electrical and plumbing systems and a Lack of electrical capacity to handle Modem Healing air conditioning and ventilation systems have led to plans for what one official last month told Congress was a phased top to Bol Tom renovation of the Pentagon which is projected to officials Call the project a phased top to Bottom rebuilding of the defense department Complex. Commence in 1989." the Early planning for the renovation a Pentagon spokesman did Calls for a five to six year program costing $400 million to Jisoo  supplementing that program is the plan to construct the Pentagon Annex and to improve the Navy Annex to the West of the Pentagon. Plans for the four buildings in the South parking lot Annex began in May 1985, when  advertised for architect engineering services to develop a master development plan for inc Pentagon according to a  letter to Congress last year. In private negotiations ii House and Senate pub Lic works committee members who fully support the program agreement was reached that the defense department should seek military construction funds rather than More limited  Money for the project. The Washington firm of keyed Condon Florence completed a draft of preliminary concepts for the Mas Ter plan last March and settled on two alternative site plans in june. Final approval of the plan by the de sense department and  is not expected until de Cember. Two closed meetings with the National capital planning commission resulted in the dropping of Sev eral approaches one of which contained a mix of buildings from four to 14 stories tall. A proposal to add another ring to the Pentagon itself also was dropped. Two concepts arc being studied both of which in clude four buildings on what is now the South parking area. In both Plant the buildings would have five Sto Ries above ground inc same number As the Pentagon and two Levels underground for offices a retail concourse and visitor arrival Center. All parking for the new buildings 6,000 spaces in All would be beneath the project. A new parking Struc Ture would be built in the North parking area and parking for visitors would be placed in structures Southof Shirley Highway. Shuttles would bring visitors from the new parking Aira to the new Annex. Under one concept the full 3 million Square Fucci of new office space and full complement of new employees would be at the South parking site. Under the second concept the Annex building would be somewhat narrower according to material 6 Ven Congress and House Only 15,500 employees under this plan the Navy Annex building would be replaced with a new Structure which would accommodate inc other 3,000 added employees. That Structure is located pm a Ridge West of the Pentagon and now houses 6,000 employees. In would be changed from a traditional military building aboveground loan underground or below Grade Structure surrounding a Large atrium. Pentagon officials recently told Congress they have designed a number of new approaches to Case obvious transportation problems that will develop from the Large increase of workers and Small increase in individual parking spaces. Perhaps the most controversial will be a plan to make Drivers pay for parking their cars in the Pentagon area. A program to charge for parking w la be gradually implemented according to the draft transportation program for the expansion of the Pentagon presented to Congress last month. The Cost for parking will eventually reflect Market costs for parking in the area which would further provide further incentives for High occupancy  the number of parking permits allocated to differ ent types of parking will be altered to Cut Down on one and two occupant vehicles while the number for Van pools and car pools with four or More passengers will be Mare than doubled. Overall the new program says the number of parking spaces per employee will be reduced from approximately one in three which now exists to one m  Mecl criticism thai the increase in employees will create traffic Snarky Pentagon officials said they plan to introduce staggered hours with More workers Start ing their Day Between 6 and 7 . There is also the Hope envisioned in the plan that the number of employees using Public transit or walk ing will increase from 30 percent to 37 percent. Officials want the first of four buildings in the com plex to be ready for initial occupancy in 1989, so that in can be used temporarily to relocate employees whose Pentagon office space is being renovated. Congress was told. According to Dod officials it would Cost $25million a year for five or six years to rent space for those Pentagon employees if the new Annex building was not available. Taking their bows soldiers Shihli synchro lied � martial arts training exert recently prize winning pictures published in and discipline during the photograph was one of several peking newspaper. Surgeons reattach go s  March fab Calif. A surgeons reattached the  of an army private wounded in a demolition Acci Dent that killed a Soldier arid injured an officer during the giant Gallant Eagle 86exercises, a spokesman said thursday. Surgeons at Utah health sciences Cen Ter in Salt  worked 13 hours to Ceallach the hand and lower  of  Arnold 21. Of Marietta ga., follow ing the explosion wednesday said  air Force maj. John a Meyer. Arnold was unserious but stable rendition. The men were participating in the  Lant Eagle exercises when the Accident occurred at the Dugway proving ground about 90 mile Southeast of Salt . Meyer identified the dead Man As pfc. Michael d. Rudess 19, of Oregon Ohio. Rudess Arnold and 1st it. Burdell Thomson were part of a commando Type Ranger unit said Meyer