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A #"' WA- J, The Bingham Facility The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fact Sheet Description: The Bingham Facility is an animal research facility owned and operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a 57 -acre site in western Orange County since the early 1970s. At various times, it has also been known as The Farm, the Animal Resource Center (ARC) and the Research Resource Facility (RRF). The facility supports the University's leading biomedical research of genetic diseases, finding gene therapy to cure diseases such as hemophilia and muscular dystrophy, by housing colonies of dogs that have these diseases. In the past, the facility has also housed swine with heart disease. Because of its off - campus location, the facility is also used for the temporary preventative quarantine of new animals (mice, birds and some primates) before research animals on main campus are exposed to them. The facility is an active registered and licensed research facility under the Animal Welfare Act with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It was last inspected by USDA on January 28, 2010. Existing conditions (February 2010): Animal building (original): 9,411 square feet, 50 dogs (may be used for other animals; number will vary) Canine building (Nichols): 5,000 square feet, 50 animals Storage buildings (2): 3,000 square feet and 3,715 square feet Waste treatment plant Holding ponds (3): Treated animal wastewater: 1,576,853- gallon capacity Treated domestic wastewater: 171,500- gallon capacity Treated domestic wastewater: 75,843- gallon capacity Irrigation pump station Spray fields Plans for expansion: As the University's research mission has grown and changed, so have plans to expand the Bingham Facility. The current expansion, dependent on a grant application for federal stimulus funding, would enable the University to consolidate research operations in a central facility. In addition to the dog colonies already housed there, Bingham would also become the new home of the Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory and its colonies of dogs and swine and another colony of dogs used to study muscular dystrophy. The Bingham Facility has room for expansion to grow the animal colonies and provide more veterinary care on -site, thus eliminating the need to bring the animals to campus for veterinary care. A secure consolidated facility would also make it easier to protect these animal resources. The grant- funded projects that follow would be completed in 2012 -2013, and others in phases as funding becomes available. Canine building (Kornegay): 11,000 square feet, 100 animals (under construction, March 2010 completion) Addition to canine building (Kornegay): 6,723 square feet, 100 animals Canine building (second Nichols): 11,038 square feet, 100 animals Addition to canine building (second Nichols): 4,366 square feet, 100 animals Swine building: 18,985 square feet, 125 animals Addition to swine building: 10,695 square feet, 80 -100 animals Laboratory/office /support building (2- story): 17,495 square feet Addition to lab building: 3,087 square feet Total (existing and proposed): 104,515 square feet 500 dogs 205 to 225 swine 2,000 rodents