National Park Service: Status of Efforts to Develop Better Deferred Maintenance Data

Abstract

As GAO, the Department of the Interior's inspector general, and others reported, the National Park Service has struggled to develop an effective maintenance management system that would, among other things, enable the agency to provide an accurate and reliable estimate of the amount of deferred maintenance on its assets. Although the Park Service has spent almost two decades addressing this problem, Park Service officials acknowledge that the service still does not have an accurate inventory of existing assets or a reliable estimate of deferred maintenance costs for these assets. Over the years, estimates of the amount of deferred maintenance throughout the national park system have varied widely sometimes by billions of dollars.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 12, 2002
Accession Number
ADA400596

Entities

People

  • Barry T. Hill

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Business Administration
  • Cape Hatteras
  • Congress
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Inventory
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Maintenance Management
  • National Parks
  • United States

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