Environmental documents for three new veterinary medicine buildings and a mouse-rearing facility at the University of California, Davis, have been completed and are available for public review and comment. Copies of both draft reports can be obtained from the reserve reading room of UC Davis' Shields Library, the Davis branch of the Yolo County Library and the Fairfield-Suisun Community Library in Fairfield. Written comments may be submitted through Sept. 27 on the mouse-facility document and through Oct. 5 on the veterinary medicine document. Comments should be sent to environmental planner Sid England in the UC Davis planning and budget office. Members of the public also are invited to comment on both reports during a public meeting to be held Thursday, Oct. 12, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the University Club on Old Davis Road of the UC Davis campus. The proposed facilities for the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine include: * a three- to five-story, 205,000-square-foot building, referred to as Veterinary Medicine 3A, to house teaching and research laboratories, academic and administrative offices and clinical facilities. It is planned for construction directly northwest of the existing Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital near the intersection of Interstate 80 and Highway 113. * a one- to three-story, 53,000-square-foot Veterinary Medicine Instructional Facility, which will contain classrooms, lecture halls, a student learning center and a computer-assisted learning facility. It is planned for construction directly northeast of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. * a two-story, 50,000-square-foot addition to the southeast end of the Veterinary Medicine 2 building, which is connected to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The new addition will house the veterinary school's Center for Companion Animal Health and Center for Comparative Genomics. The proposed mouse-rearing facility is to be built and operated by the nonprofit organization The Jackson Laboratory. The single-story warehouse-style building will be about 65,000 square feet and located on a five-acre site on the west side of Hopkins Road, opposite the University Airport. The facility would be a highly sterile building for the production of inbred and genetically modified laboratory mice and the long-term maintenance of specialized genetic strains of research mice. The facility will be used to prepare, breed and house these mice for distribution to researchers at UC Davis and other West Coast universities and research centers. The building projects outlined in both of the draft environmental impact reports are consistent with the land-use designations in the 1994 Long-Range Development Plan for UC Davis. Both draft documents are initial studies that will be used to focus the two Environmental Impact Reports that will be prepared in the coming weeks. The Environmental Impact Reports are expected to be available to the public in November. Public hearings on the EIRs will provide the public with a second opportunity to comment on these documents. Media contacts: -- Sid England, Planning and Budget Office, (530) 752-2432, asengland@ucdavis.edu -- Patricia Bailey, News Service, (530) 752-9843, pjbailey@ucdavis.edu