Coast Guard: Relocation of Air Facility on Southern Lake Michigan

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Coast Guard's decision to relocate its Glenview, Illinois, air facility to a county airport near Muskegon, Michigan, focusing on the: (1) number, severity, and location of incidents requiring Coast Guard search and rescue response in southern Lake Michigan from 1994 through 1997; (2) resources the Coast Guard used for such responses; (3) factors used in evaluating alternative sites for relocating the Coast Guard air facility in southern Lake Michigan; and (4) its accuracy and completion of the data and methodology used for the evaluation applied to sites under consideration.