The objectives of the Construction subactivity are:
• Ensuring NOAA has safe, sound, and secure facilities and infrastructure to house employees.
• Ensure the workforce is equipped with the technology and equipment needed to ensure the uninterrupted accomplishment of its critical scientific and operational mission and programs.
NOAA’s facilities constitute a significant and important capital investment, and are integral to NOAA’s mission accomplishment. The Facility Modernization program will ensure excellence in NOAA’s facilities, consistent with NOAA’s Strategic Plan, Executive Order 13327 (Federal Real Property Asset Management) and Federal Real Property Council guidance. Improving the conditions of NOAA’s facilities allows NOAA to accomplish our mission safely and successfully;
it also promotes our attracting and retaining a high-performing workforce.
NOAA uses approximately 800 different facilities (i.e., both owned and leased buildings), and owns more than 400 buildings. NOAA’s owned and leased buildings have a current
replacement value (CRV) of over $5 billion. Of that, more than 50 percent (442) are owned and operated by NOAA with a CRV of approximately $2.5 billion. Our facilities are often subject to extremes of climate and weather, and therefore require higher levels of maintenance and are more prone to unplanned repairs and investments needed to keep them safe, secure and environmentally sound.
The major components of NOAA’s Facility Modernization Program supported under PAC are major facility repair projects to restore and modernize facilities damaged by inadequate
sustainment, excessive age, natural disasters, fires, accidents, or other causes; and major new construction projects to recapitalize, modernize, or consolidate facilities to promote improved operational and mission efficiencies.
The Office of the NOAA Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) has overall responsibility for the NOAA Facilities Program and is specifically responsible for:
• Providing capital investment planning guidance.
• Establishing enterprise-wide investment priorities facility repair and modernization investments.
• Executing repair and modernization projects as “Provider of Choice”—optimizing investments in strengthening NOAA’s facility program.
• Oversight and corporate reporting on execution.
• Sustainment of corporate owned complexes.
In supporting NOAA’s mission and program accomplishment, the Facility Modernization Program has established the following Program objectives:
• Integrate facility requirements as part of NOAA’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution system;
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• Sustain, restore and modernize NOAA’s facilities to optimize NOAA program and mission accomplishment;
• Maximize opportunities for collocation within NOAA, and with NOAA and its partners to promote programmatic synergy and effective use of real property assets.
915 Program Changes for FY 2012:
NOAA Construction: NOAA Construction (Base Funding: 0 FTE and $0; Program Change: 0 FTE and +$900,000): NOAA requests an increase of $900,000 and 0 FTE for a total of $900,000 to support the project management costs of the Main Facility being
constructed at the new Pacific Regional Center (PRC) on Ford Island in Honolulu, HI.
Proposed Actions:
NOAA received funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5) and the Omnibus Budget Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-8) to complete the building construction phase of the PRC project and achieve full consolidation of its operations on the island of O′ahu, Hawaii, with construction of the Main Facility. The FY 2012 request will support NOAA’s project management costs to ensure effective oversight and execution of the project. The current projected date for completion of the Main Facility is 2013.
Statement of Need and Economic Benefits
The Pacific Regional Center is a multi-phase, multi-year construction project to consolidate NOAA programs and operations (excluding the Honolulu weather forecast office) on the island of O'ahu into a single facility on federally-owned property at Ford Island. NOAA in Hawai'i manages an extensive portfolio of programs addressing fisheries, ocean, coastal, climate, and atmospheric issues in the Pacific. NOAA has funded the first two phases of the project: NOAA ship operations facility (completed in October 2007), and the marine science and storage facility (scheduled for occupancy in 2012). The Main Facility represents the final phase of the
consolidation project. The benefit of this consolidated solution was recognized with the appropriation of funding under the ARRA and Omnibus Budget Act in 2009 for the building construction phase of the Main Facility, which is designed to consolidate and house over 600 staff currently dispersed over more than a dozen locations. By bringing its programs together into one facility, NOAA expects to realize benefits in improved operations and mission
performance, longer-term operational savings, and opportunities for greater program collaboration and synergy—both within NOAA and with external partners.
The FY 2009 funding received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5) and the Omnibus Budget Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-8) has allowed NOAA to move forward with completion of the construction phase of the Main Facility—construction of the new facility, and adaptive re-use of historic structures where possible. The funding requested in FY 2012 will support NOAA’s project management costs to ensure effective oversight and
execution of the project.
Base Resource Assessment:
There is no base funding for this program.
Schedule and Milestones
Multi-Year Project Schedule
Program Phase
Schedule (Start - Complete)
Business Case Analysis Completed – 2005
Phase 1: Ship Operations Facility Completed – 2007 Phase 2: Building 130: Construction Award – 2009;
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Construction/Occupancy Complete 12/11
Main Facility Design Completed – 2010
Phase 3a: Main Facility Construction 09/10 – 02/13 Phase 3b: Main Facility Outfitting and
Occupancy 2013
Deliverables:
See table above
Outyear Funding Estimates (in thousands) Pacific
Regional Center
FY 2011
& Prior
FY 2012 Target
FY 2013 Target
FY 2014 Target
FY 2015 Target
FY 2016 Target
Total
Change from FY
2012 Base 313,595 900 TBD TBD TBD TBD
Total Request
313,595 900 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollar amounts in thousands)
Activity: Construction
Subactivity: NOAA Construction
2012
Object Class Increase
11 Personnel compensation
11.1 Full-time permanent $0
11.3 Other than full-time permanent 0
11.5 Other personnel compensation 0
11.8 Special personnel services payments 0
11.9 Total personnel compensation 0
12 Civilian personnel benefits 0
13 Benefits for former personnel 0
21 Travel and transportation of persons 0
22 Transportation of things 0
23.1 Rental payments to GSA 0
23.2 Rental Payments to others 0
23.3 Communications, utilities and miscellaneous charges 0
24 Printing and reproduction 0
25.1 Advisory and assistance services 0
25.2 Other services 900
25.3 Purchases of goods & services from Gov't accounts 0
25.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities 0
25.5 Research and development contracts 0
25.6 Medical care 0
25.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 0
25.8 Subsistence and support of persons 0
26 Supplies and materials 0
31 Equipment 0
32 Lands and structures 0
33 Investments and loans 0
41 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0
42 Insurance claims and indemnities 0
43 Interest and dividends 0
44 Refunds 0
99 Total obligations 900
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