Defense Infrastructure: Additional Actions Could Enhance DoD's Efforts to Identify, Evaluate, and Preserve Historic Properties
Abstract
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 requires each federal agency to establish a preservation program that ensures properties are identified and evaluated for historic significance, as well as managed and maintained in a way that considers their preservation. Senate Report 115-130 accompanying a bill for the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2018, included a provision that GAO assess DODs management of historic properties in use on U.S. installations. This report examines the extent to which DOD (1) identifies and evaluates properties for historic significance, including those that have been privatized, and (2) assesses the condition of its historic properties and has guidance on the training of installation personnel maintaining and those working in historic properties. GAO reviewed DOD fiscal year 2017 real property data and policies and procedures; visited a nongeneralizable sample of 10 installations, selecting them based factors such as military service representation and concentration of historic properties; and interviewed DOD officials, privatized housing developers, and installation personnel.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1153066
Entities
People
- Aaron Chua
- Alexandra Gonzalez
- Amie Lesser
- Brian Lepore
- Christopher Gezon
- Clarice Ransom
- Elizabeth Field
- Emily Martin
- Jodie Sandel
- John Van Schaik
- Lori Kmetz
- Maria Storts
- Monica Savoy
- Natalia Pena
- Ronnie Bergman
- Whitney Allen
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office