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- COntluue0 from rage A-El
road" with the White House,
Pentagon and State Department.
1t was emphasized that much
Of CIA's work is of such nature
that its business cannot be
transacted by telephone.
To Speed Parkway
An immediate effect of the
GAS decision to build at Lang
ley is that the work of extending
the George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway is to be speeded
UP. The CHA estimates that about
SO per cent of its workers will
use the parkway to get to their
jobs.
Fairfax County has promised
that sewer extensions to the
CHA building will be adequate by
the time it is ready for business,
and the Falls Church water
system has promised adequate
water.
One impact of Federal build
ing-one which the local gov
ernmentS feel keenly--is that It
takes big chunks of land on the
tax rolls.
This will not be true in the
GAS case. since the land on
which 1t is to build already is
aforementioned, and occu-
pied by the Bureau Of Public
Roads as a testing ground. The
CHA will take only a part Of the
Bureaus land.
Washington still has the lions
share Of the approximately 1884,
600 Federal employees in the
metropolitan area.
But an estimated $4,000 work
In nearby Virginia, and about
1000 in nearby Maryland.
Many Instead Of One
Until 20 years ago. nearby
Maryland had only one big Gov
eminent agency. the Agriculture
Research Center at Beltsville.
This now employees 2,l0O persons.
The big building of Federal
agencies in Montgomery and
Prince Georges County got I'M
der way before World War II,
when the biggest agency in point
Of employment. was set up. That
was the National Institutes Of
Health in Bethesda. hiring $500
workers.
The Naval Medical Center,
with its 1000 employees. went up
across Wisconsin avenue from
the NH the following year. To-
gether, these two agencies occupy
nearly 500 acres.
After that, in rapid order UP
through 1914, came the David
Taylor Model Basin, the Walter
Reed Hospital Annex. the Census
Bureau, Andrews Air Force Base,
the Army Map Service. the Navy
photographic once and the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory.
Then there was halt in the
move Of big agencies to suburban
Maryland, but now 1t has started
again. A Navy Photographic In
depreciation Center has been
built at Suitland.
The Atomic Energy Commits
sion's new $40 million headquar-
ters In the Germantown area. on
LOO acres, is nearing completion,
and the Acc expects to move its
1900 employees in this fall.
Five miles to the south, near
Gaithersburg, the Bureau Of
Standards Is building on 5l8
acres.
Pentagon . Big Factor
The biggest boost to Federal
employment In nearby Virginia
came when the Pentagon was
built as q rush Job in the war
years. bringing In about $4,000
civilian workers, plus about 1000
military.
Other big installations are Fort
Meyer, Arlington Hall and the
Navy Annex.
The CHA does not divulge its
total employment, but 1t will
add thousands Of Federal work.
ers to nearby Virginia. The CHA
structure will replace the Agri-
culture Building as the second
largest Government ONCE build
ing.
Much has been said about lack
Of cooperation between Govern
ment agencies and planning
groups In moves to suburban
sites.
Although the National Capital
Planning Commission and the
Regional Planning Council had
little part in picking the GAS
Langley site, they eventually
approved 1t.
Planning groups would like TO