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. i 1. r ; rt ki- 1 ... 0 , [ul, :!8, 1.J:,), ,,upported the actions of
Itn. (1L l'chltdini a Iiunts for minor construction and alteration
and o tiiti ,u ,ile.ring support from funds r, -quested for ilait t,_na n.
,rie.' 181 o rca Iproperty in fiscal y ear 1975 and (2) excluding these amounts
rnlii ws oruTV'fYJor for real property niaintenance. You asked also
luiI vh .' , had advised officials in the Departou.nt of l)efense (DO1))
ti;i t lund:i for these accounts should be excluded from the floor.
I 'ACI (1(GO UND
As stated in our report, in March 1972 a DOD official told us DOD
p4,,nnd to (1) redefine the backlog of essential maintenance and repair
to (,liminate the exclusion of projects under $10, 000, (2) redefine the floor
to delete minor construction as a floor account, and (3) require reporting
of unconstrained maintenance requirements.
We conclude'd that the annual maintenance floor was consistently set
too low to insure spending an adequate amount to prevent excessive de-
h'rioration of real property. We concluded also that the reported backlog
o)f tessential maintenance and repair understated the actual level of real
property det,rioration. Accordingly, we recommended that DOD should:
Bas all real property maintenance requirements indicators,
in cluding the floor and the backlog, on the same criteria; i. e.,
they should have a direct relationship in definition, budgeting, and
afrountin g. This minay require redefining the floor.
In September 1973 the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations
III ,oistics) responded to this reconmmendation by stating that:
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Your reconnendation related to the Backlog of IE]ssential
X. aintenain't, and Repuir also causes us no spe cific problem since
tl, hark og has beuen redefined in the new 1)1) instruction. The
'w dfeliitiori is: I'[he lacklog of Maintenance and Repair (BMAR)
is th elld of fiscal ycar measurernent of maintenance and repair
work x enaiing as a Fircm requirement of the installation work plans
,,resc'rfi ed by )(O) irectiv e 4116.5. 2 but which lack of resources
,co;)io acconplishnient in that fiscal year.
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