United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-10-29 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:T-RCED-98-35 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35 P0b002ee18038dd3c f:rc98035t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35 T-RCED-98-35 Housing programs Repair costs National parks Federal employees Housing repairs Maintenance (upkeep) Testimony RCED This testimony summarizes two GAO reports (GAO/RCED-93-192, Sept. 1993, and GAO/RCED-94-284, Aug. 1994) on National Park Service employee housing issues. GAO found that the Park Service has not clearly justified the need for all of its employee housing units, nor has it been able to provide detailed support for its backlog of housing repairs and replacements. Individual park managers have broad discretion in carrying out park housing policy, which has resulted in inconsistencies in how the program is managed agencywide and raises questions about whether some housing decisions are in the agency's best interest. Finally, other federal land management agencies, such as the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, do not provide the same level of housing to their employees. Because its mission stresses in-park visitor services, the Park Service believes that it needs to provide a larger number of its employees with in-park housing. Moreover, the Park Service's mix of housing units contains more houses, multiplex units, and apartments and fewer dormitories and cabins, making the agency's housing inventory more costly to maintain. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35/html/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35.pdf GAO/T-RCED-98-35 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-RCED-98-35 Testimony GAO/T-RCED-98-35; National Park Service: Employee Housing Issues; Housing programs Repair costs National parks Federal employees Housing repairs Maintenance (upkeep) Public Law 104-333