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National Park Service: Efforts to Identify and Manage the Maintenance Backlog

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 14, 1998
Report No. RCED-98-143
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Summary:

The National Park Service's most recent estimate of its maintenance backlog does not accurately reflect the scope of the maintenance needs of the park system. The Park Service estimated, as of January 1997, that its maintenance backlog was about $6.1 billion. Most of this amount--about $5.6 billion, or about 92 percent--was for construction projects which, for the most part, were designed to correct maintenance problems at existing facilities. However, more than 21 percent of the $5.6 billion in construction projects, or $1.2 billion, was for the construction of new facilities. GAO does not question the need for these facilities, but it believes that it is inappropriate to include new construction projects or projects that expand or upgrade park facilities in an estimate of the maintenance backlog.

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