U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Asset Management Plan June 7, 2006 Draft Table of Contents

4. Asset Prioritization

The Asset Priority Index (API) scoring for all Service assets is based on a 100 point system as required by the DOI asset management plan. Two separate scoring criteria categories, Mission Dependency Rating (MDR) - 80% and Asset Substitutability - 20% are combined in order to attain a final API score. Field station managers must enter a selection for both mission criticality and substitutability to complete the API for each asset record in the real property inventory. Field stations completed assessment of all their assets mission criticality for the first time in July 2005. API is directly correlated with an assets mission dependency rating (required by the FRPP) as seen in the chart below, both API and MDR indicates which asset groups are most important to the Service mission. Assets in the Reclamation & Irrigation category such as levees, dikes, water control structures are considered highest priority (average MDR of 1.16), followed by industrial structures (average MDR of 1.18) and industrial buildings (average MDR of 1.5), which are typically buildings and structures associated with fish production at National Fish Hatcheries.