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Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548
September 2, 2003
The Honorable Christopher Shays
Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security,
Emerging Threats, and International Relations
Committee on Government Reform
House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The Department of State plans to spend at least $80 million to purchase
and renovate a 23-acre, multibuilding facility in Frankfurt, Germany. This
facility, called Creekbed, is scheduled to open in mid-2005 and, when
completed, will be the largest U.S. diplomatic facility overseas. As stated
in State's business plan to purchase the facility, Creekbed will provide
office space for staff currently working at the primary U.S. consulate
building in Frankfurt, five nearby office annex buildings, and offices
located at the Rhein Main Air Force Base near Frankfurt; some staff
currently located at the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Germany; and a substantial
number of regional staff currently assigned to other embassies who could
be relocated to take advantage of the security that Creekbed will provide.
The project is a key initiative under the President's Management Agenda'
to reassess and reconfigure, where appropriate, the staffing of U.S.
embassies and consulates. In congressional testimony, State officials have
noted that the project is expected to achieve the department's key
rightsizing and regionalization goals.2 According to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), the project is also expected to serve as a
model for future efforts to expand the use of regional centers to conduct
embassy and consular operations.
As you requested, this report discusses whether the Department of State is
actively pursuing the potential for relocating regional staff from outside
'Office of Management and Budget, President's Management Agenda, Fiscal Year 2002
(Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C.: Aug. 2001).
2U.S. Department of State, The U.S. Presence Overseas, Testimony of the Under Secretary
of State for Management, Grant S. Green, Jr., before the House Committee on Government
Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations,
107th Congress (Washington, D.C.: May 1, 2002).GAO-03-1061 Overseas Presence: Frankfurt Regional Center
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