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After a chaotic year of efforts to shrink the federal real estate footprint, the government is still left with a huge amount of unused space to offload.
As a deadline for that effort approaches, lawmakers at a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee hearing Thursday pressed administration officials on how they will ensure the next phase of reorganizing the federal footprint proceeds in a timely and effective manner.
Answering their questions were three officials focused on assessing and addressing the federal footprint: acting Public Buildings Service Commissioner Andrew Heller, Government Accountability Office Managing Director Heather Krause and Public Buildings Reform Board Member Michael Capuano.
Heller, who has been with the agency since 2017, was tapped to head PBS in August, and Thursday was his first time testifying before Congress.
“While the state of federal real estate continues to face an uphill battle, the policies of this Congress and this administration have and will continue to accelerate this important corrective work,” Rep. Scott Perry, who chairs the subcommittee, said in his opening remarks.
Next month is the deadline for agencies to report data on their space utilization to the General Services Administration. The reports will provide key pieces of information to determine how the agency will proceed in rearranging the federal office puzzle.
The data gathering is required under legislation then-President Joe Biden signed into law in January. It says that if agencies are found to be using less than 60% of their space, they are required to come up with a consolidation plan to reach that threshold.
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