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GGD-95-51R 1 (1995-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackwk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States - General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-260008 July 14, 1995 The Honorable William Cohen Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: As you requested, this letter provides information on the federal government's efforts to identify and manage office space that may be underutilized after ag.encies downsize. Federal civilian agencies occupy over 750 million square feet of office space in thousands of government-owned and-leased buildings nationwide. These agencies are expected to reduce their workforces by at least 13 percent, or about 107,000 non- Department of Defense (DOD) employees, by the end of fiscal year 1999. These cuts could result in millions of square feet of underutilized federal office space. The information presented in this letter was obtained through interviews with and documents gathered from the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as from selected agencies expected to be downsized over the next several years as part of the administration's and Congress' efforts to reduce the size of the federal government. These agencies are the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), the Interior, Transportation (DOT), the Treasury, and Veterans Affairs (VA); the Army Corps of Engineers; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). FDIC and TVA can acquire and dispose of office space without GSA involvement, but OMB oversees these agencies' budgets. Although it is still early in the downsizing process, at the time of our review, GSA and OMB, the two central management agencies responsible for space management and budget matters, had taken some steps to identify and restrain the amount of underutilized federal office space. However, neither had yet developed a governmentwide strategy for managing reductions in agencies' office space requirements specifically related to GAO/GGD-95-51R Downsizing and Space im

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