Comments: DoD did not accept this recommendation and stated that the Marine Corps was part of the Department of the Navy and that the recommendation was not necessary. GAO made a similar recommendation to the Navy. The DOD agreed with this recommendation and indicated that the Department of the Navy would issue guidelines that would direct the Navy and Navy to establish and implement a process to track the financial and non-financial benefits realized from intergovernmental support agreements (IGSAs) implemented by their respective departments. On March 1, 2019, the Department of the Navy directed the Commander, Naval Facility Command (MCICOM), to define policies or procedures and implement a process to collect and monitor information on the financial or non-financial benefits realized from all implemented IGSAs. On June 26, 2019, MCICOM published the necessary guidelines as well as an update to the Handbook order that reflects the new requirements. Through the establishment and implementation of this process and the documentation contained in guidelines, the Marine Corps will have information that decision-makers can use to verify a possible extension of the IGSA and decide whether to develop and implement similar agreements at other sites. Based on the analysis of 8 selected intergovernmental support agreements (IGSAs) and interviews with officials, GAO found that military services received financial and non-financial benefits related to the use of IGSAs with local or government governments to obtain facility services such as waste disposal, soil maintenance and stray animal control. In this report, GAO assessed, among other things, the extent to which military services (1) have realized and monitored the benefits of IGAs and (2) have supported the use of IGSAs and whether the facilities are assessing the possibilities of using GIAs. Comments: The military approved this recommendation and, in response, concluded and implemented an order that ordered the tracking of all financial benefits realized by the implemented IGSAs. While this regulation does not specifically require the monitoring of non-financial services performed, a corresponding military regulation on GAs stipulates that it is essential to use public-public partnerships to improve, among other things, relations with public and local communities. .

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