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Facility in 1985 and placed it in service when construction was
substantially completed in 1986.4
The Reserve Facility is approximately 500 feet long by 190
feet wide by 52 feet high. It is located immediately adjacent to
the east side of two existing buildings (the Receiving Building
and the 1979 Shipping Building) and is connected to both
buildings at a mezzanine level 20 feet above the main floor of
the Reserve Facility. This mezzanine extends along the north
face of the Reserve Facility for a depth of 26 feet and continues
along the west face of the Reserve Facility at a depth of 11 feet
8 inches. A concrete block boiler room is located on the main
floor of the Reserve Facility below the north mezzanine level.
In addition, there is a 25-foot-wide floor-level clear area at
the south end of the Reserve Facility.
The Reserve Facility does not have a standard column grid
that is typically used to support the roof and walls in a free-
standing building. Instead, the structural system supporting
most of the roof and walls of the Reserve Facility is the rack
system. Frazier Industrial Co. (Frazier), a storage rack system
manufacturer, participated in the design of, and provided the
necessary engineering and materials for, the rack system and
structural framework for most of the Reserve Facility. In order
to save costs on structural steel, reduce labor costs, and
4Additional components of the Reserve Facility were placed
in service in 1987.
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