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National Park Service - Facility Maintenance

Through this program, the National Park Service (NPS) maintains the thousands of buildings, roads, trails, utility systems, and other constructed assets in national parks. NPS keeps up these assets through preventive maintenance in the parks, cyclical programs in the region, and a service-wide construction program.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • NPS has to reform how it manages assets. As the existing infrastructure gets older and the number of parks goes up, NPS will not be able to keep up unless it systematically and efficiently allocates available funding.
  • NPS does not yet fully use condition assessments and performance measures to effectively manage its portfolio of assets. NPS has plans, however, to use a Facility Condition Index (FCI) and an Asset Priority Index (API) to track progress and establish funding priorities.
  • NPS does not routinely use efficiency measures and other tools to make sure the dollars are being spent wisely. For example, it does not share between parks the lessons learned on efficient maintenance practices.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Completing comprehensive condition assessments for all standard assets by the end of FY 2006.
  • Using updated FCI and other performance targets to demonstrate results in improving park facility conditions.
  • Using efficiency measures, priority lists, and other management tools to spend money on the right facilities at the right time for the best possible return.

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