[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Details of civilian "BRAC" proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A BRAC for federal buildings

By ANDY MEDICI
Federal Times
March 7, 2011

The next target for government cost-cutting may be your office building.

The Obama administration plans to assemble soon an independent panel  
to identify excess federal properties that can be sold and  
underutilized facilities that can be consolidated.

The panel would be modeled after past base realignment and closure  
(BRAC) commissions that planned large-scale consolidations and  
closures of military bases.

The administration is pressing Congress to approve the panel to start  
work "as soon as possible," an Office of Management and Budget  
spokeswoman said.

The government owns 14,000 excess buildings and 55,000 underutilized  
buildings. The Obama administration estimates it can save $15 billion  
in three years by quickly shedding excess properties and  
consolidating ones that are underutilized. The dollar figure - which  
translates to $5 billion a year - includes saved maintenance,  
operations and energy costs as well as proceeds from sales.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20110307/ 
FACILITIES02/103070301/1027/FACILITIES


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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