This report examines the current condition of university research facilities that are considered part of a college or university campus facility. The report reviews past and present federally sponsored programs designed to help the Nation's universities expand and modernize their research facilities. Recent surveys conducted by higher-educational associations and the Federal Government, to assess the current condition and construction of research facilities of the Nation's universities are also discussed. Finally, the report presents a number of different issues Congress may eventually have to address, in considering current university concerns about their research facilities. This document also contains appendices which include a list of research facilities surveys discussed in the report, and papers dealing with explicit rent charges, tax-exempt financing, university facilities audits, and universities receiving direct congressional approrpations for research facilities. (TW)