A draft report on the potential environmental impacts of two proposed veterinary facilities at the University of California, Davis -- an instructional laboratory and an athletic performance laboratory for horses -- 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. Written comments on the reports may be submitted through March to environmental planner Sid England in the UC Davis planning and budget office. Both facilities, which will cost a total of approximately $20 million, are planned for construction in spring 2001 southwest of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in the campus's health-sciences district. They will replace old, inadequate facilities currently used by the veterinary school near Haring Hall. The first project, the Veterinary Medicine Laboratory, is planned for construction west of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital on a site currently devoted to an equestrian cross-country course. The facility will include a single-story, 63,000-square-foot laboratory building with instructional surgery suites for veterinary students, animal-holding facilities for both large and small animals, a facility for canine blood donors and an instructional lecture hall. It also will include exercise runs for dogs and other small animals, plus a pasture for large animals. The second facility, the Equine Athletic Performance Laboratory, will be built east of Garrod Road, just south of Parking Lot 51 on a site currently used for corrals. The performance facility will include a single-story 20,000-square-foot laboratory with three horse-size treadmills, an automated walker for exercising horses, a round pen and a large animal holding facility. Both proposed facilities are 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.