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LCD-77-406 1 (1977-05-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacfj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 02165 - A14I524561 Emergency Power Generators Used and Managed Inefficienly by Department of Defense. LCD-77-406; B-133361. May 20, 1977. 32 pp. Report to Secretary, Department of Defense; by Fred J. Shafer, Director, Logistics and Communications Div. Issue Area: Facilities and Material M&nagement: Operation and Maintenance of Facilities (708); Energy: Federal Efforts to Conserve Energy (1602). Contact: Logistics and Communications Div. Budget Function: National Defense: Department of Defense - Military (except procurement & contracts) (051). Organization Concerned: Department of the Navy; Department of the Army; Department of the Air Force. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services; Senate Committee on Armed Services. The Department of Defense (DOD) needs to make improvements in the management and use of the emergency power generators, which provide backup power for vital DOD faciliticos, such as hospitals, if normal power sources fail. Findings/Conclusions: DOD needs to provide standard guidelines to the services on how to best manage and use emergency power genitrators More stringent Department and service criteria on the authorization and use of emergency power generators csuld reduce many of the problems noted at the installations visited, such as generator capacities greater than required, unnecessary and duplicate generators, inconsistencies in generator use, and unnecessary costs to maintain duplicate systems. Recommendations: The Secretary of Defense should: (1) provide criteria for determining which users should have priority access to emergency power and how the needs of these users can best be met; (2) strengthen the process for reviewing and justifying the need for all generators in order to permit the initial need for a generator to be adequately justified, to permit those users which can be serviced by smaller generators to be identified, and to permit generators no longer necessary to be made available to other users; and (3) instruct installations to share generators, when appropriate, as an alternative to buying or retaining unnecessary generators. (Author/SC)

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