Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Accurate and Current Facilities and Other Infrastructure Data Are Critical for Facilities Management First, GAO has reported that federal agencies have not had reliable data on the facilities in their inventory, which undermines effective facilities management, although some improvements had been noted in the government-wide Federal Real Property Profile and in DoD's Real Property Assets Database. Still, GAO has federal real property on the High-Risk list in part because of data
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Data reliability concerns affecting federal agency facilities data are a long-standing issue based on the GAO reports. For example, GAO reported in 2012 that the Federal Real Property Council had not followed sound data collection practices in designing and maintaining the Federal Real Property Profile database, raising concern that the database was not a useful tool for describing the nature, use, and extent of excess and underutilized federal real property at the time of the GAO report.
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. GAO reported that these buildings were, on average, 55 years old and that, in turn, the aging infrastructure was leading to workload and staffing challenges in addressing maintenance and repair needs.
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. GAO reported that, according to various reports, representatives of standards-developing organizations, and agency officials, federal agencies had initiated some actions and could take more to help standards-developing organizations address challenges.
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Finally, this report identified that some progress had been made in integrating climate change adaptation into installations' plans and project designs although the integration had been limited. Earlier still, in its first report on DoD's climate change resiliency efforts, GAO reported that DoD had begun to assess installation vulnerability to climate change (GAO 2014b)
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Accordingly, GAO recommended that the Executive Office of the President work with agencies to identify for local infrastructure decision makers the best available climate-related information for planning, and to update this information over time. Generating Benefits from Unutilized or Underutilized Property GAO issued two reports that assessed the benefits obtained when federal agencies provide long-term leases of their real property to public or private entities to use the property, known as an "enhanced use lease." In the more recent report, GAO reviewed the enhanced use lease programs at VA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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First, GAO reported that 15 federal agencies have the statutory authority to dispose of facilities and retain the proceeds of the disposal, such as revenue realized from the facilities' sale. Specifically, GAO reported that five of these agencies used this authority to retain proceeds of about $557 million from all building sales, as of the time of the report.
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On the topic of complex disposal processes, GAO reported that conducting required environmental and historic reviews in a timely manner was among the challenges VA faced in its real property disposal process. Potentially compounding the problem was what GAO termed "VA's lack of clear procedures for property disposals" (2019j)
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. A second approach on which GAO reported consists of GSA exchanging titles to federally owned real property for other properties or construction services, known as "swap exchange," a form of public–private partnership (GAO 2016e)
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At the same time, other agencies' managing infrastructure and real property can benefit from lessons learned and documented in the GAO reports. Finally, the large set of recommendations contained in these reports suggest policies and procedures that if implemented may help federal agencies to have reasonable assurance their facilities and associated resources are appropriate for mission or service delivery needs.
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This appendix will • Highlight federal facility asset management authorities that set the founda tion for developing and implementing federal facility renewal strategies, • Highlight the current national strategy for federal facility asset manage ment systems used to develop and implement federal facility renewal strategies, • Review the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) policies as they relate to federal facility asset management and its role in advancing fed eral facility renewal strategies, and • Highlight the relationship between federal facility renewal strategies and an agency's real property capital plan.
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, and authorities for individual agencies • Other federal laws, such as authorization and appropriations acts, that create temporary authorities regarding federal asset management • Executive orders • OMB circulars • OMB memoranda • Code of Federal Regulations • Federal acquisition regulations • Federal management regulations This list shows the variety of sources that establish federal facility asset management authorities. Many of these sources, especially the U.S.
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These advancements began to establish asset management system requirements affecting federal facility renewal strategies. Study of this framework concluded that federal facility renewal strategies must be integral to the agency's strategic plan and budget.
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FIGURE E-1 Performance management cycle. SOURCE: Office of Management and Budget, 2022, OMB Circular A-11.
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