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GAO-12-306R 1 (2012-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacfpt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Accountabiliy - Integrity - Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 January 6, 2012 The Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV Chairman The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison Ranking Member Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate The Honorable John L. Mica Chairman The Honorable Nick J. Rahall, II Ranking Member Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Subject: National Transportation Safety Board's Implementation of GAO Recommendations The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigates every civil aviation accident in the United States and selected accidents involving other transportation modes, determines the probable causes of these accidents, makes recommendations to address safety issues identified during accident investigations, performs transportation safety studies, and operates a Training Center for NTSB investigators and other transportation safety professionals. NTSB is a relatively small federal agency with about 400 staff and a fiscal year 2011 budget of about $98 million. From 2006 through 2008, we made 21 recommendations to NTSB aimed at improving its management, information technology, accident investigation criteria, safety studies, and Training Center use. In January 2010, we reported that NTSB had fully implemented 9 of our 21 recommendations and made significant progress in implementing the remaining 12 recommendations.' NTSB's 2006 reauthorization legislation included language that , 2 called for us to annually evaluate NTSB's programs, operations, and activities. As agreed with your committees, this report evaluates NTSB's progress in implementing our remaining 12 recommendations as of December 2011. To determine the status of NTSB's implementation of our remaining 12 recommendations, we reviewed and analyzed documents obtained from NTSB since January 2010 on the actions NTSB officials have taken to address our recommendations. We also spoke with NTSB officials about these actions. 1GAO, National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization, GAO-10- 366T (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 27, 2010). 2The National Transportation Safety Board Reauthorization Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-443, § 5, 120 Stat. 3297, 3299, adding § 1138 to title 49 U.S.C. GAO-12-306R Status of NTSB Recommendations Page I

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