To fight fires, enforce laws, and conduct search and rescue operations on federal lands in Alaska, Hawaii, and throughout the lower 48 states, the Department of the Interior's eight bureaus must obtain aircraft and aviation-related services through the Office of Aircraft Services (OAS). OAS administers the department's $102 million aviation program and provides the bureaus with about 550 government-controlled aircraft: about 100 owned by the government (fleet aircraft) and 450 obtained from the private sector through various long-term contracts and leases (contract aircraft). OAS also has overall responsibility for the departments aviation safety program: it reviews the bureaus aviation safety efforts, assists in training fleet pilots, develops aviation safety and aircraft accident prevention programs, and establishes aviation program standards. Each bureau is responsible for deciding whether OAS should contract or purchase aircraft for that bureau, and schedules or coordinates aircraft use within its operations and with other Interior bureaus, as well as with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The bureaus must reimburse OAS for aviation costs.


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    Title :

    Department of the Interior: Office of Aircraft Services and Bureaus Can More Fully Recover and Further Reduce Aviation Program Costs


    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    30 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English