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GAO-06-321R 1 (2006-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaszk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i= i Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 February 10, 2006 The Honorable Wayne Allard Chairman Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Jerry Lewis Chairman Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Architect of the Capitol: Addressing Staffing and Training Issues Is Importantfor Efficient and Safe West Refrigeration Plant Operations The West Refrigeration Plant Expansion (WRPE) project is the centerpiece of an effort to expand the capacity of the Capitol Power Plant (CPP) to meet the U.S. Capitol's growing heating and cooling needs and to update plant equipment, some of which dates to the 1950s. CPP generates steam and chilled water to provide heating and cooling for the Capitol and 23 surrounding facilities that, together, encompass about 16 million square feet of space. CPP will also serve the 580,000-square-foot Capitol Visitor Center (CVC), which is under construction. When completed, the WRPE project will increase CPP's chilled water production capacity by about 23 percent and enable central operation of CPP's chillers.' The WRPE construction contract was awarded in March 2003, work is ongoing, and the project is now scheduled for completion in March 2006. Future contract changes may, however, extend this date to June 2006. The budget for the WRPE project and associated administrative expenses is $81.7 million. Several modifications have been made to the WRPE contract to incorporate other capital improvements at CPP. The budget for these modifications is $19.2 million, bringing the total budget for the base WRPE project and related projects to $100.9 million. For clarity, we refer in this report to the base WRPE project and related projects collectively as the WRPE project. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC), who manages CPP, is responsible for commissioning the new West Refrigeration Plant equipment. According to the General Services Administration (GSA), which provides guidance to federal agencies 'The base WRPE contract provides for a distributed controls system that uses a computer program, rather than human operators, to monitor and control CPP's chillers. A contract modification is funding a similar system for CPP's boilers. GAO-06-321R Architect of the Capitol

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