Facility Operations and Maintenance

What this funds

The Facility Operations and Maintenance subactivity supports the NPS mission by contributing to the protection and maintenance of natural and cultural resources, the knowledge and planning to manage those resources appropriately, and the modernization and renewal of employee and visitor facilities and infrastructure. Facility Operations and Maintenance play key roles in fulfillment of the NPS mission, ensuring continued protection, preservation, serviceability, and use of park facilities and infrastructure and natural and cultural resources. The NPS maintains a wide range of recreational, public use, historic, and support facilities in dispersed locations and varied circumstances. These sites span time from prehistoric ruins into the 21st century. All park units come with myriad resources, facilities, and features, including many that are unique to specific sites. Each site must be properly maintained to achieve management objectives and to protect government, partner, and donated investments. Facility Operations Facility Operations activities support nearly all aspects of resource protection and visitor services, ensuring buildings, roads, trails, picnic areas, campgrounds, and other infrastructure are available for use by visitors and park personnel. The reliability of facility components is essential to efficient park operations, recreational access, visitor satisfaction, and health and safety. The Facility Operations function encompasses day-to-day activities that allow for the continued use of facilities, including the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of those day-to-day work activities. Many parks operate much as a municipality might, performing waste removal, water and wastewater processing, landscape maintenance, and shared-space servicing. The mixture of these activities varies, depending on the park unit needs and the time of the year. Parks must consider the type, size, and scope of the required operational activities, and consider seasonal fluctuations in those requirements. Facility Maintenance Parks accomplish basic Facility Maintenance activities using park base operational funding; these activities are accomplished by park staff or contractors. The NPS effectively accomplishes Facility Maintenance activities by assessing facility conditions, prioritizing work, and planning investments to address cyclic needs, correct deficiencies, halt decay, or restore deteriorated assets. Early detection of facility issues prevents loss of assets and ensures that facilities are maintained at a level necessary to support the NPS mission. Facility Maintenance funding addresses both routine and unplanned maintenance activities--including maintenance, recapitalization, alteration, replacement, and divestiture.

Extracted from National Park Service, p. 20. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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