Functional Area: Asset Sustainment
Executive Sponsor
Kirk Rodgers, Mid-Pacific Regional Director
Reclamation’s workload involves the effective management of its vast infrastructure inventory. As a result, the greatest efficiencies to be gained within the agency, and the most important leadership decisions to be made, will be based on a thorough analysis of how this infrastructure is to be managed.
| Action Item No. |
Action Item | Time Frame | Team Leader | Results |
| 25 | Establish and implement a standard, agency-wide process for evaluating and communicating the current financial circumstances of all Reclamation infrastructure, including cost invested, repayment status, O&M cost allocation, design life, facility condition, etc. More | 3/2006 - 10/2006 | Efraim Escalante | Available |
| 26 | Determine where opportunities exist for beneficial transfer of O&M responsibility to water users and implement them. More | 3/2007 - 6/2007 | Randy Chandler | Available |
| 27 | Determine where opportunities exist for beneficial outsourcing of O&M for reserved works and implement them. More | 3/2007 - 9/2007 | Randy Chandler | Available |
| 28 | Determine where opportunities exist for mutually beneficial transfer of title to project sponsors in order to eliminate Reclamation’s responsibility and costs for those facilities, and encourage any that are appropriate. More | 3/2007 - 6/2007 | Randy Chandler | Available |
| 29 | Analyze effectiveness of current O&M planning (does it square with the Bureau Asset Mgmt Plan, and is it is being done agency-wide). More | 3/2006 - 9/2006 | Randy Chandler | Available |
| 30 | Integrate O&M planning with the budgeting process (analyze the extent to which the current BRC process accomplishes this). More | 5/2006 - 2/2007 | Randy Chandler | Available |
| 31 | Benchmark O&M of water storage and distribution facilities in a manner modeled after current practices with power facilities, starting with pilot program. More | 6/2006 - 6/2007 | Mike Roluti | Available |
Last Updated: March 21, 2008