The lab has been maintained by USARIEM since 1969 and is a building of . floor space divided into a kitchen and dining/day room, common area bathroom and shower, and common area sleeping quarters accommodating up to 16 research volunteers, a wet laboratory, a research area, and a mechanical room housing steel storage tanks for water and sewage. The building is well insulated and protected from the elements, supplied with electrical power, and heated by natural gas. US Forest Service rangers of the Pike National Forest have general administrative oversight of the greater area.