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GAO-10-725R 1 (2010-07-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaantw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i ~G A 0 Acouita bility I Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 21, 2010 Congressional Committees Subject: Military Base Realignments and Closures: DOD Is Taking Steps to Mitigate Challenges but Is Not Fully Reporting Some Additional Costs The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round is the fifth such round undertaken by DOD since 1988 and is the biggest, most complex, and costliest BRAC round ever. With this BRAC round, the Department of Defense (DOD) plans to execute hundreds of BRAC actions affecting over 800 defense locations, relocate over 123,000 personnel, and spend over $35 billion-an unprecedented amount, given that DOD has spent nearly $26 billion' to implement the four previous BRAC rounds combined when all relevant BRAC actions have been completed. As with prior BRAC rounds, DOD is required to implement the BRAC Commission's 2005 recommendations within 6 years of their approval by the President and transmittal to Congress.2 Unlike with prior BRAC rounds, DOD is implementing the BRAC 2005 round during a time of conflict and significant increases to the defense budget to support ongoing contingency operations. Compounding this challenge, DOD is also implementing other extensive worldwide transformation initiatives such as the permanent relocation of about 70,000 military personnel3 to the United States from overseas; transformation of the Army's force structure from an organization based on 'This dollar amount is based on DOD's fiscal year 2011 budget submission to Congress to pay for continuing implementation of recommendations from prior BRAC rounds (BRAC 1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995). This amount does not include other costs associated with BRAC such as costs to complete environmental cleanup at BRAC bases in future years and costs incurred by other DOD and federal agencies to provide assistance to communities and individuals affected by BRAC. DOD's budget submission is reported in current dollars (i.e., includes projected inflation). 2 BRAC legislation (Pub. L. No. 101-510, Title XXIX (1990)), as amended by Pub. L. No. 107-107, Title XXX (2001) provided for an independent commission to review the Secretary of Defense's realignment and closure recommendations and the commission had the authority to change these recommendations if it determined that the Secretary deviated substantially from the legally mandated selection criteria. The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (referred to in this report as the BRAC Commission) presented its list of final recommendations to the President, who approved them in their entirety. The President subsequently forwarded these BRAC recommendations to Congress, and they became effective on November 9, 2005. 3 The relocation of about 15,000 U.S. military personnel from various overseas locations back to the United States is included in the BRAC 2005 recommendations. DOD plans to relocate approximately 55,000 additional military personnel in realignment actions not directly related to BRAC. GAO-10-725R Military Base Realignment and Closure

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