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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 26 / Wednesday, February 10, 2021 / Notices It is important to note that while OMB, with GSAs assistance, did conduct this evaluation of the agencyidentified properties and is providing a list of properties for consideration of the PBRB, it is ultimately the responsibility of the PBRB to fully vet each property, as the PBRB, working with GSA, is charged with carrying out the disposals and consolidations. Like the High Value Asset process, OMB will expect that the PBRB provide the necessary financial information to weigh the likelihood of project by project success. Further, the availability of appropriations including appropriations of proceeds from the High Value Round disposals will be a critical determination of what is possible to execute, and that is currently unknown.
III. Standard Utilization Rates: In 20172018, GSA and OMB researched existing utilization rate standards that could potentially be used to evaluate Agency Recommendations, in accordance with Public Law 114287, Section 11c, Special Rule for Utilization Rates. Specifically FASTA
required that standards developed by the Director of OMB pursuant to subsection b shall incorporate and apply clear standard utilization rates to the extent that such standard rates increase efficiency and provide performance data. The utilization rates shall be consistent throughout each applicable category of space and with non-government space utilization rates.
This research was conducted by GSA
with input from OMB. For each Federal Real Property Profile FRPP
predominant building use type, potential utilization rate approaches were identified and evaluated based on the criteria established in this section, including the ability to identify
efficiency opportunities, provide performance data, and be consistent throughout each applicable category of space.
A. Office Buildings The results of the study revealed that only the FRPP building type office lends itself to a standard utilization metric. Utilization rates for office space are used by the private sector and a majority of federal agencies to manage their space and assess its efficient use.
OMB and GSA recommends to PBRB
that buildings reported to the FRPP with a building use code of office should utilize the following utilization rate calculation: Total Administrative Office Space useable square feet divided by Total Headcount = administrative Office Utilization Rate usable square feet per person. This Administrative Office Utilization Rate formula focuses solely on that space which is commonly found in a commercial office setting:
Workstations, private offices, collaboration areas, meeting spaces, and other standard support spaces, and associated internal circulation. Any space that is unique to the agency and does not have a commercial office equivalent termed special space is removed from the calculation. This special space is instead evaluated based on its efficiency relative to achieving the agencys programmatic goals and established design criteria.
B. Non-Office Buildings For all other FRPP building types other than office, the study revealed that a clear and reliable utilization rate is not in common use within the government or the private sector, and that it is currently not feasible to create such rates without extensive and close collaboration among the government
and the private sector. In some building types, there exist significant variations in programmatic purpose that prevent reliable comparisons between them.
Creating a standard utilization rate for non-office building types would often provide a misleading and inaccurate efficiency measurements, particularly if comparison was made among agencies.
Based on this, GSA recommends that non-office buildings identified in Agency Recommendations be evaluated individually by real estate professionals, based on the buildings unique ability to meet mission requirements of the agency at that specific location, to assess how efficiently the building is being utilized.
IV. Agency Recommendations: In accordance with 11d2 of Public Law 114287, the list of recommendations was submitted by OMB and GSA and has been provided to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate; and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate; the Government Accountability Office; and the Public Buildings Reform Board.
OMB believes that to fully utilize the authority provided by FASTA, the next round of PBRB recommendations should include 100 or more properties and that projects already identified by the agencies as priorities are likely to be strong candidates for that list.
Deidre A. Harrison, Deputy Controller Acting.
Total improvements
Annual O&M costs
Total square footage
Agency
Agency
Property name
City
State
Priority
VA

VHA

Menlo Park

CA

Medium

$4,302

1

15,200

2.24

Agriculture
Energy

ARS
ANL

Glen Dale
Argonne

MD
IL

Medium
Medium

2,500,000

24
0

31,242
0

70
8.4

EPA

EPA

Grosee Ile

MI

Medium

239,196

4

35,547

3.1

Labor

Job Corps

Morgansfield

KY

Medium

0

0

600

VA
VA

VHA
VHA

Sepulveda
Manchester

CA
NH

Medium
Medium

33,661

18
1

35,316
2,776

3.53
2.8

VA

VHA

Walla Walla

WA

Medium

0

0

13

VA

VHA

Tomah

WI

Medium

12,401

3

30,823

2

Labor

Job Corps

Menlo Park VA Medical CenterNW Parcel.
Portion of ARS Glen Dale Argonne National Lab Vacant Land/2 Parking Structures.
Lakes & Rivers Forecasting Research Station.
Earle C Clements Job Corps CenterVacant Land.
Sepulveda North Parcel Portion of Manchester VA
Medical Center.
Portion of VA Campus Baseball Fields.
Tomah Quarters Buildings.
Portion of Atterbury Job Corps Center.

Edinburgh

IN

Medium

8

62,840.00

93.00

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