Download or read book Better Administration of Capital Grants Could Reduce Unnecessary Expenditures on Mass Transit Projects written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Administration of Capital Grants Could Reduce Unnecessary Expenditures on Mass Transit Projects

Download or read book Better Administration of Capital Grants Could Reduce Unnecessary Expenditures on Mass Transit Projects written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of selected capital grants awarded to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.

Download or read book Better Administration of Capital Grants Could Reduce Unnecessary Expenditures on Mass Transit Projects Report by the Comptroller General of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transportation written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reviewed six capital grants awarded to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to determine how well the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) was monitoring them and whether the program was cost effective. MBTA received more than $1.8 billion in capital grants from fiscal years 1965 through 1981. GAO found that UMTA did not adequately monitor grant projects in accordance with its management guidelines and operating manual and did not have guidance on third-party funding of UMTA-supported projects. As a result, $2.3 million was spent to construct a rapid transit track that is not being fully used, and $5.6 million was spent to purchase and install power equipment that will not be used. Thus, nearly $8 million of federal funds was expended with only minimal benefits to the Authority. Furthermore, delays have occurred in the acquisition of automatic train control equipment which could increase equipment costs by more than $6 million. In addition, funds expected from third parties to help finance projects have not been obtained and may not be forthcoming. As a result, the Authority will have to scale down the project or ask UMTA for additional funds. Office of Management and Budget guidelines require grantees to submit quarterly progress reports to UMTA and require UMTA to make periodic visits to construction sites and to perform inspections. Due to staff shortages, UMTA did not follow its monitoring procedures. The quarterly reports were often incomplete and improperly analyzed. Inspections were not made as often as required, and trip reports were vague and incomplete.

Download or read book Better Administration of Capital Grants Could Reduce Unnecessary Expenditures on Mass Transit Projects written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reviewed six capital grants awarded to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to determine how well the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) was monitoring them and whether the program was cost effective. MBTA received more than $1.8 billion in capital grants from fiscal years 1965 through 1981. GAO found that UMTA did not adequately monitor grant projects in accordance with its management guidelines and operating manual and did not have guidance on third-party funding of UMTA-supported projects. As a result, $2.3 million was spent to construct a rapid transit track that is not being fully used, and $5.6 million was spent to purchase and install power equipment that will not be used. Thus, nearly $8 million of federal funds was expended with only minimal benefits to the Authority. Furthermore, delays have occurred in the acquisition of automatic train control equipment which could increase equipment costs by more than $6 million. In addition, funds expected from third parties to help finance projects have not been obtained and may not be forthcoming. As a result, the Authority will have to scale down the project or ask UMTA for additional funds. Office of Management and Budget guidelines require grantees to submit quarterly progress reports to UMTA and require UMTA to make periodic visits to construction sites and to perform inspections. Due to staff shortages, UMTA did not follow its monitoring procedures. The quarterly reports were often incomplete and improperly analyzed. Inspections were not made as often as required, and trip reports were vague and incomplete.

Download or read book Impacts of Urban Mass Transportation Administration Capital Grants Programs written by Leonard Merewitz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

Download or read book Federal Program Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

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Download or read book GAO Annual Report written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Compendium of GAO s Views on the Cost Saving Proposals of the Grace Commission Individual issue analyses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO examined issues studied and recommendations made by the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, better known as the Grace Commission, to determine whether: (1) the issues and recommendations made on program management and cost control had merit; (2) legislation would be necessary to implement the recommendations; (3) implementation efforts were completely underway; and (4) the savings estimates were realistic. GAO found that many of the issues studied and recommendations made by the Commission had overall merit and that, while many have already been implemented by legislative or administrative action, many more require additional legislative action to be fully implemented. However, GAO questioned the accuracy of many of the associated savings estimates, found flaws in the methodology used to develop some of the estimates, and found that the description of the methodology used in some estimates was insufficient to allow an assessment of its validity. In most of the instances where GAO questioned the methodology used, it believed that the savings were overstated. GAO supported management improvement issues more frequently than policy-oriented issues; however, policy-oriented issues constitute a large portion of the total estimated savings. GAO does not support restructuring federal subsidy programs and fixing federal health care costs to a percentage of the gross national product, and it disagreed with selected aspects of recommendations to reduce civilian and military retirement benefits. GAO support was most extensive in the areas aimed at strengthening federal management systems, federal automatic data processing operations, federal credit and cash management efforts, and civilian procurement and property management activities. GAO has made similar or related recommendations in nearly half of the areas in which it agreed with the Commission. Additional legislative action would be necessary to fully implement approximately half of the recommendations analyzed.

Download or read book A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to ADP written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Transportation Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: