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GAO-03-777R 1 (2003-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamey0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im j , G A 0 Comptroller General . .Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 May 21, 2003 The Honorable Duncan Hunter Chairman The Honorable Ike Skelton Ranking Minority Member Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: Posthearing Questions Related to Strategic Human Capital Management and Endangered Species We are responding to questions for the record from your May 1, 2003, hearing on The Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act.' Congressmen Neil Abercrombie and Sylvestre Reyes submitted the questions. Questions from Congressman Abercrombie 1. Has GAO been able to gather a comprehensive list of bases/ranges and types of training activities affected by the need to comply with the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act? Our prior work in this area identified various examples to illustrate how compliance with the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act have affected military training on various military bases; however, we have not, nor has the Department of Defense (DOD), attempted to aggregate this information for all bases.2 Nonetheless, on the basis of our observations and discussions with officials at installations and major commands we visited last year here in the United States, we obtained numerous examples where encroachment issues, such as those related to compliance with the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, had affected some training range capabilities, requiring workarounds-or adjustments to training events-and, in some cases, limited training. For example, endangered species habitat considerations have limited off-road vehicle training at Fort Lewis, Washington, to preserve an endangered plant and at Yakima Training Center, Washington, to protect the western sage grouse habitat. In addition, prior to the beginning of live-fire exercises in the Atlantic, Navy aircraft and ships search the 'U.S. General Accounting Office, Defense Transformation: DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel System and Governmentwide Human Capital Reform, GAO-03-741T (Washington, D.C.: May 1, 2003). 2 U.S. General Accounting Office, Military Training: DOD Lacks a Comprehensive Plan to Manage Encroachment on Training Ranges, GAO 02-614 (Washington, D.C.: June 11, 2002) and Military Training: DOD Approach to Managing Encroachment on Training Ranges Still Evolving, GAO-03- 621T (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 2, 2003). GAO-03-777R: Posthearing questions on DOD human capital

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