OIG Report of July 1998

• FS Infrastructure Maintenance on National Forest Lands in the Eastern Region, Report No. 08099-03-Ch, July 1998

This audit examined how FS addressed the problem of its aging infrastructure (i.e., buildings, bridges, and dams) located on national forest lands. Officials of FS' Eastern Region expressed concerns that decisions were being made on infrastructure construction and maintenance by unqualified personnel and that accidents involving potentially substandard structures could result in financial liability to FS. In addition, concerns were raised that current inventories of infrastructure maintained by FS and by other Federal and State entities may be incomplete.