A draft report on the potential environmental impacts of a new genome and biomedical sciences facility at the University of California, Davis, has been completed and is available for public review and comment. Copies of the draft report can be obtained at the reserve desk of UC Davis' Shields Library, the Davis branch of the Yolo County Library and the Fairfield-Suisun Library in Fairfield. A public scoping meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 3, from 4-7 p.m. in the lounge at the University Club on Old Davis Road. Written comments on the report may be submitted through May 10 to environmental planner Sid England in the UC Davis planning and budget office. The six-story, $95 million Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility will have 212,000 gross square feet, about the same size as Meyer Hall (the campus's largest research facility to date). It will be located north of Tupper Hall and is expected to be completed in 2004. It will house the new UC Davis Genome Center, which will include dozens of faculty members studying the action of genes in growth, health, disease and behavior, and a revitalized pharmacology and toxicology department in the School of Medicine. It will also house 70 other research and administrative units of the School of Medicine and the campus's growing Division of Biomedical Engineering. It will include a mouse vivarium that could house up to 20,000 mice. In addition, 100 bicycle parking spaces will be added and 200 new parking spaces will be constructed between West Health Science Drive and the Highway 113 right-of-way. The facility is consistent with the land-use designations in the 1994 Long-Range Development Plan for UC Davis. The study was prepared as an Initial Study to focus an Environmental Impact Report that will be prepared in the coming weeks.