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GAO-23-106124 1 (2022-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaonuw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 October 28, 2022 The Honorable Gary C. Peters Chairman Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Peter A. DeFazio Chairman The Honorable Sam Graves Ranking Member Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Federal Real Property: Agencies Attribute Substantial Increases in Reported Deferred Maintenance to Multiple Factors The federal government owns a massive portfolio of civilian buildings and structures. This portfolio requires billions of dollars to operate and maintain annually. However, agencies may postpone maintenance and repairs to assets in their portfolios for various reasons, which over time can create a backlog of deferred maintenance and repairs. We added federal real property management to our High Risk List in 2003, due, in part, to challenges related to deferred maintenance and repair.1 As we and others have reported, deferred maintenance and repairs can have consequences, including limiting the ability of agencies to carry out their missions and prematurely worsening the condition of assets. Agencies have annually reported billions of dollars in estimated deferred maintenance and repair costs on their real property assets, representing substantial costs the federal government may have to pay in the future. You asked us to review agencies' management of their deferred maintenance and repairs. This report first examines reported deferred maintenance and repair costs among civilian agencies from fiscal years 2017 through 2021 and second describes factors selected agencies identified as contributing to changes in their reported amounts. To examine reported deferred maintenance and repair costs among civilian agencies, we analyzed civilian agencies' financial reports to identify the estimated deferred maintenance and repair costs the agencies had reported in each fiscal year (FY) from 2017 through 2021. To assess the reliability of this data, we interviewed agency officials responsible for collecting, maintaining, and reporting deferred maintenance and repair data at selected agencies; reviewed documentation on their methods for collecting, storing, and reporting the data; and reviewed our prior work regarding the quality of the data.2 We determined that the data were sufficiently reliable for purposes of presenting the amounts agencies had reported. 1GAO, High-Risk Series: An Update, GAO-03-119 (Washington, D.C.: January 2003). 2We have ongoing work reviewing the reliability of selected agencies' deferred maintenance and repair data and their methods for collecting and reporting the data. GAO-23-106124 Real Property Deferred Maintenance Page 1

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