TITLE: Major Project Management: Solutions for Major Success

CIS-NO: 2003-H751-14  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: May 1, 2002  
LENGTH: v+86 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-79  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-29247-1.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-79. Hearing before the Subcom on Highways and Transportation to review DOT management and financial oversight of major capital investment projects.
 
Major capital investment projects are designated under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century as highway and bridge construction projects that require funding in excess of 1 billion.
 
Supplementary material (p. 29-86) includes submitted statements and witnesses' written statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Fed hwy and surface transportation major projects, DOT mgmt and oversight

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION. HOUSE;  BRIDGES; HIGHWAYS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION REGULATION; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING; INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS; TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

03-H751-14 TESTIMONY NO: 1     May 1, 2002 p. 4-28, 32-86
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   PETERS, MARY E. (Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, DOT)
   DORN, JENNIFER L. (Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, DOT)
   MEAD, KENNETH M. (Inspector General, DOT)
   STEPHENS, THOMAS E. (Director, Nevada Department of Transportation)
   HECKER, JAYETTA Z. (Director, Physical Infrastructures Issues, GAO)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Examination of DOT oversight policies for major capital investment projects; explanation of DOT initiatives to improve major capital investment projects management; review of shortcomings in DOT oversight of major capital investment projects.
   State perspectives on DOT major project management policies, with recommendations to improve cost and quality controls; examination of DOT major construction project approval and implementation processes; highlights of GAO report on DOT major project management practices, with analysis of specific problems relating to cost controls and oversight management.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Fed hwy and surface transportation major projects, DOT mgmt and oversight
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, DOT; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

LOAD-DATE: June 5, 2003