Leo J. Ryan Federal Building

The building was named in honor and memory of Representative Leo J. Ryan, a United States congressman who was killed by gunfire during a visit to Jonestown. Congressman Ryan was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1983. Congressman Tom Lantos introduced a bill in 1983 in the United States Congress: ..to designate the Federal Archives and Records Center in San Bruno, California as the "Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Archives and Records Center". The bill passed by unanimous consent in the House of Representatives and Senate, and was signed by President Ronald Reagan and became public law 98-580 on October 30, 1984. ==Specifications==

The Leo J. Ryan Federal Building is surrounded by a cyclone fence, and functions effectively as a bunker. The building itself is kept isolated - the federal government owns the property behind the building, and no other government tenants are near the facility. After the Oklahoma City bombing, where a federal building was destroyed by explosives, the federal government has taken care to isolate sensitive archived records and documents away from other government agencies. The temperature within the records rooms is kept at and humidity at 50%. ==See also==