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GGD-92-3R 1 (1992-03-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacjzh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States Geneal Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-242006 92-1101 March 16, 1992 146116 The Honorable Gerry Sikorski Chairman Subcommittee on Civil Service Committee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: To assist the Subcommittee in its consideration of H.R. 3149, a bill to strengthen the authority to require safe workplaces for federal employees and for other purposes, you asked us to summarize our work on the condition of federal buildings controlled by the General Services Administration (GSA) and GSA's stewardship of its buildings. This letter responds to your request. As one of the federal government's principal real estate and business agents, GSA has the responsibility of providing federal agncies and federal employees a quality work environmnt -- safe, healthy, and functional working space and other |atilities -- in which they can carry out the government's business. Nationwide, GSA manages or oversees some 7,400 buildings -- 1,700 owned and 5,700 leased -- which contain about 247 million square feet of workspace and house various federal agencies and over 1 million federal employees. Our May 1991 report, Federal Buildings: Actions Needed to Prevent Further Deterioration and Obsolescence (GAO/GGD-91- 57, May 13, 1991), disclosed that some GSA-controlled federal buildings have been neglected and gradually allowed to become deteriorated, antiquated, and in a few instances unsafe. Primarily because of funding limitations and ineffective GSA management and oversight of identified repair and modernization requirements, needed repairs and improvements to bring some buildings up to acceptable quality and safety and health standards have been deferred. Besides decreasing the value of federal assets and costing the government more money in the long run, the failure to GAO/GGD-92-3R, GSA Buildings Safety CDy5-Xn :)\ / 4I4p

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