National Parks Backlog: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session to Conduct Oversight of the Maintenance Backlog, Land Acquisition Backlog, and Deficit in Personnel Within the National Park System, Including the Impact of New Park Unit Designations on Resolving Each of These Concerns, July 8, 2003 |
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Page 43 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 4 - I'm prepared to take any questions the committee might have. [The prepared statement of Mr. Murphy follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF DONALD W. MURPHY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR S.
Page 8 - Service's new asset management process will, for the first time, provide the agency with a reliable inventory of its assets; a process for reporting on the condition of those assets; and a consistent, systemwide methodology for estimating deferred maintenance costs.
Page 6 - Yet with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the...
Page 23 - Accountability for Stewardship The NRC Committee found that Federal government processes and practices are generally not structured to provide effective accountability for the stewardship of federal facilities. Congress, the Office of Management and Budget, federal agency senior executives, facilities program managers, and field staff all make decisions that affect maintenance and repair programs. Because decision-making authority is so widely dispersed, no single entity can be held responsible or...
Page 23 - I the tacit assumption that maintenance and repair can always be deferred one more year or 5 more years in favor of more visible projects However, in the short term, deferring maintenance diminishes the quality of building services In the long term, it can lead to a shorter service life and reduced asset value The scope of the problem is evident in the magnitude of deferred maintenance backlogs reported by agencies The costs of eliminating these backlogs are estimated to be in the tens of billions...
Page 12 - According to the agency, it is now in the early stages of developing a plan to eliminate any duplication or inconsistencies between these two components of the organization. The Park Service has also made progress in performing its service-wide facility condition assessments. According to the Park Service, it has completed annual condition assessments — visual inspections — on all but nine of the larger parks in the system.6 In addition, the Park Service is concurrently performing the more detailed,...
Page 10 - Service has spent almost two decades and about $11 million addressing this problem, it still does not have a reliable estimate of deferred maintenance needs for its facilities and other assets. In the past several years, concerns about the cost of operating and maintaining federal recreation sites within the National Park Service, as well as other federal land management agencies, led the Congress to provide a significant new source of funds. This additional source of funding the Recreational Fee...
Page 10 - ... asset management. When fully developed and implemented, the new process will, for the first time, enable the agency to have a (1) reliable inventory of its assets; (2) process for reporting on the condition of the assets in its inventory; and (3) consistent, systemwide methodology for estimating the deferred maintenance costs for its assets.