Recreation Facilities

Weaknesses in the Corps' Procedures Highlighted by Arcadia Lake Dispute Gao ID: RCED-90-185 September 28, 1990

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Army Corps of Engineers' design and construction of recreation facilities at the Arcadia Lake Project in Edmond, Oklahoma, focusing on the: (1) events that led to litigation between the Corps and its cost-share partner, the city of Edmond; and (2) Corps' new procedures for cost-share projects.

GAO found that: (1) Edmond refused to pay the Corps its 50-percent share for facility construction when project costs increased to 2.5 times the estimated cost; (2) the Department of Justice sued Edmond to force the city to pay its share of costs; (3) the underlying issues in the dispute were Edmond's approval of changes in project design and cost increases, the Corps' involvement of Edmond in project design and development, and the Corps' overestimation of visitors to the project; (4) the Corps' new procedures did not address the cost-share partner's approval of design and cost changes or involvement in project design and development, but did improve the visitation estimate process; and (5) Edmond's design and construction concerns about the recreation facilities were still unresolved.

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