The Maintenance Of Aids To Marine Navigation By The United States Coast Guard

Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Coast Guard written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Coast Guard’s statutory missions is the care and maintenance of ATON. Much like drivers need signs and universal driving rules, mariners need equivalent nautical “rules of the road.” As of November 2019, the Coast Guard managed 45,664 federal fixed and floating ATON that are designed to assist those operating in the U.S. Marine Transportation System, which includes about 25,000 miles of waterways, 1,000 harbor channels, 300 ports, and 3,700 terminals. According to the Coast Guard, as of July 2018, these ATON had a collective replacement value of about $1.6 billion. The Coast Guard has faced an array of challenges in managing its ATON, such as deteriorating buoys, and questions have been raised regarding the extent to which the Coast Guard is addressing these challenges. This report (1) describes what is known about the condition and costs of maintaining the Coast Guard’s ATON, and (2) examines challenges the Coast Guard has experienced in managing its ATON and how it is addressing them. GAO recommends that the Coast Guard update its ATON initiatives by including the specific outcomes to be achieved and associated time frames.