Deferred Maintenance
USGS develops a "Five-Year Deferred Maintenance and Capital Improvement Plan" to provide necessary up-keep on property and equipment and to provide facilities that will best fulfill our mission. Deferred maintenance is work that was not performed when it should have been or when it was scheduled, often because of funding or priority ranking of work, and was thus delayed to a future period. Capital improvements include the construction of new facilities or the alteration of an existing facility to accommodate a change of function or unmet programmatic need. All capital improvement components of projects were excluded from the deferred maintenance estimate in this report.
The Five-Year Plan is re-evaluated annually pursuant to the budget process and is subject to adjustments at that time depending on funding levels and revised priorities. Estimations on deferred maintenance are based on condition assessment surveys that are conducted every five years at each USGS site to determine the current condition of facilities and the estimated cost to correct deficiencies. These surveys are conducted by an independent engineering firm and are supplemented by annual condition surveys performed by USGS personnel.
The FY2005 budget formulation process was used to establish the base from which the FY2003 deferred maintenance priority listing was derived. The Office of Management Services (OMS), which formulates the Bureau's deferred maintenance budget, collected project proposals for possible inclusion in the Bureau plan for FY2005-2009. OMS collected proposed regional and headquarters facilities projects, which were then ranked to reflect the criticality of the health and safety deficiencies being addressed. A project that addressed a critical health and safety deferred maintenance need received a higher ranking than one addressing a critical mission deferred maintenance need. In June 2003, a team of regional and headquarters facility and safety specialists reviewed the ranked proposals to confirm the accuracy of rankings and otherwise ensure the adequacy of the project proposals. Due to funding constraints, only the highest-priority projects received funding and were included in the FY2005-2009 Plan.
A summary of the USGS Deferred Maintenance estimate at September 30, 2003 follows:
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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