Military Family Housing
PLRD-83-19
Published: Dec 03, 1982. Publicly Released: Dec 03, 1982.
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Highlights
GAO surveyed major maintenance and repairs to military family housing units at five installations. Because the work disclosed a problem relating to wood floor replacement and maintenance, GAO concentrated its efforts in that area.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of Defense | The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics should establish a policy which requires the services to perform economic analyses to identify the most economical materials for replacing wood floors in military family housing. |
Closed – Implemented
The Assistance Secretary has directed all services to perform economic analyses when replacing wood floors. All of the services are complying.
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| Department of Defense | The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics should emphasize to the services the need to follow DOD procedures for maintaining wood floors and stress the need for all services to ensure that their procedures are consistent with the DOD policy for maintaining wood floors. |
Closed – Implemented
When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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