Transportation and Facilities Maintenance

What this funds

Focus on highest priorities (-$3,600,000 / -5 FTE) - The budget requests funding for Deferred Maintenance and Capital Improvements. The BLM will repair the highest priority assets within the The Deferred Maintenance and Capital Improvement (DM/CI) Program funds the repair, renovation, constructed assets within the BLM. The DM/CI program also includes professional engineering services, program oversight, database management, management of structural risks of facilities, and dam and The BLM reports its backlog deferred maintenance and repair (DM&R) annually to the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP). The FRPP is the annual reporting by executive agencies of real property as required by E.O. 13327, Federal Real Property Asset Management and the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 (FASTA). The FY 2025 reported DM&R amount is other assets in the BLM. Additionally, the status for all BLM assets in the estimate is "Active"- Current Mission Need. The BLM does not have any assets in "Inactive"- Future Mission Need, or "Excess" - Report of Excess Submitted or Accepted, Determination to Dispose, Cannot Currently be Disposed, or Chapter III - Management of Lands and Page - III - 95 Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification Recreational and Visitor Experience Assets $307,743,449 The overall DM&R estimate for the BLM increased 5.28 percent from FY 2024 to FY 2025. The BLM made significant changes to how it tracks DM&R. Historically, DM&R was tracked using only Deferred Maintenance. As of the implementation of the new Investment Categories, BLM now tracks DM&R via multiple work types including Deferred Maintenance, Recapitalization, Replacement, and Divestiture work orders. The new work types came with new cost modeling methods. Additionally, BLM began and is continuing to conduct a comprehensive review of all work orders and is moving to strictly using modeled values to ensure consistency in reporting. The increase in DM&R for transportation assets is due to the difference in how work orders are modeled and tracked for the majority of assets in this category. Roads make up the largest portion of this category and their condition is obtained using a modified version of the PASER methodology to determine the condition of the roads ranging from excellent to impassable. The requested funding for deferred maintenance meets the operational needs across the BLM, ensuring that only the highest priority mission critical assets are receiving lifecycle investments. At the requested funding level for maintenance, inclusive of all sources, the BLM estimates that deferred maintenance and repairs on assets will continue to increase, notwithstanding our focus on addressing critical maintenance requirements. The process of evaluating project submittals and aligning them to the BLM's lifecycle management priorities starts at the State level. Each State Director evaluates their needs in the field and prioritizes their needs against the Department's and Bureau's critical needs. The State submits a project list that aligns to the State Deferred Maintenance and Capital Improvement funded amount and that list is added to the cumulative BLM list of all the State submissions. The projects are reviewed by Headquarters and Senior Leadership to ensure that the project aligns to the Department and BLM's critical priority repair needs and added to the Five-Year Lifecycle Investment Plan. The Five-Year Lifecycle Investment Plan is updated annually using the DOI Lifecycle Investment Planning Guidance. The DOI Lifecycle Investment Planning Guidance uses six work classifications that include Maintenance, Recapitalization, Alteration, Replacement, New Construction and Divestiture. Chapter III - Management of Lands and Page - III - 96 Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification These classifications are used in assessing a project's funding priority and provide instructions on how to evaluate projects using DOI, BLM, and Administration priorities to target funding to the projects with the highest priority, and assets in the worst condition. Chapter III - Management of Lands and Page - III - 97

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