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GAO-07-1203R 1 (2007-09-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaupn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Sai Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 6, 2007 The Honorable Frank Lautenberg The Honorable Robert Menendez United States Senate The Honorable Rush Holt The Honorable Frank Pallone The Honorable Jim Saxton The Honorable Christopher Smith House of Representatives Subject: Military Base Realignments and Closures: Observations Related to the 2005 Round This correspondence is in follow-up to our August 1, 2007, meeting to discuss your concerns about changes in the cost and savings estimates and the potential loss of expertise and experience from the closure of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, among other issues, since the recommendation to close Fort Monmouth as part of the Department of Defense's (DOD) 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round became effective. As we discussed with you, our BRAC work since the independent Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission's (the Commission) recommendations became effective has been done under the authority of the Comptroller General to conduct reviews on his own initiative' and has focused on the implementation of realignment and closure actions. Consistent with our approach, we offered to briefly summarize the observations we made in 2005 publicly about the 2005 BRAC round, specifically those related to Fort Monmouth, under the authority of the Comptroller General to conduct reviews on his own initiative, and you believed this would be helpful. As such, the objective of this correspondence is to summarize the observations we made publicly on the 2005 BRAC round prior to the Commission's final recommendations. We also agreed to review, under the Comptroller General's authority to conduct reviews on his own initiative, the methodology of a forthcoming DOD report on the transfer of technical capabilities from Fort Monmouth to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The law authorizing the 2005 BRAC round2 directed us to independently assess DOD's process and recommendations and report by July 1, 2005.3 As such, we issued a report '31 U.S.C. § 717. 2P.L. 107-107, Title XXX (2001). 3GAO, Military Bases: Analysis of DOD's 2005 Selection Process and Recommendations for Base Closures and Realignments, GAO-05-785 (Washington, D.C.: July 1, 2005). GAO-07-1203R Military Base Realignments and Closures

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