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Bureau of Land Management

MAPPS Federal Update

Donald Buhler

Cadastral, Lands, and Realty Management

April 1, 2014

Division of Cadastral, Lands and Realty Management 1

BLM Mission •  Manages 247 million surface acres 700 million acres

of Federal mineral estate

•  Mineral operations and cadastral surveys on 56 million acres of Indian trust lands

•  Dual mission of conservation and traditional land users

•  Key to the vitality of local economies

•  Delivering benefits to all Americans through outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development and energy production.


FY 2014 •  Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations

•  Alaska Conveyance and Lands

•  Geospatial Publication Module

•  Minerals and Lands Records System (MLRS)


Land Buy back Mapping Process “A high level understanding”


Requirements •  ….to meet the specialized needs of federal

government appraisers (OVS/OME) to accurately position assets and resources relative to parcel boundaries to determine parcel valuations.

•  ….using data or information contained in federal databases or other systems and which are derived from official records.

•  ….data/information to be from an authoritative sources. (TAAMS and the GCDB)


For what purpose? •  To reduce the number of fractional interests in

trust or restricted lands, using reasonable efforts to prioritize the consolidation of the most highly fractionated tracts of land as required by the Settlement.

•  To maximize the number of tracts in which the tribe gains a controlling ownership interest to unlock land for beneficial use or conservation by tribal nations, taking tribal priorities into account.


Deliverables •  Parcel Geodatabase (TAAMS) (Initial and final

mapping)

•  PLSS Geodatabase (GCDB) (Initial and final mapping)

•  Discrepancy Report (Excel format) (Initial and final mapping) This is an automated function recording where and why congruency between PLSS and TAAMS failed.

•  QA/QC Report

•  Full Documentation of the “Mapping Process.”


Deliverables


Alaska Land Conveyance •  Uncertain budgets

FY 12 $29 M FY 13 - $16.6 M FY 14 - $22 M

FY 15 - $19 M (proposed)

•  2015 request level plots a course for completing all surveys and land transfers in ten years.

•  Finish the surveys for Alaska Native Corporation land selections and transfers to the Corporations in five years.

•  Complete surveys and transfer for the State of Alaska land selections within ten years.


Alaska Land Transfer Remaining Workload Summary

ANCSA Entitlement 45,764,004

Conveyed To Date 43,831,835

Title Passed by Patent 33,385,397

Title Passed by Interim Conveyance 10,446,438

ANCSA Remaining Entitlement 1,932,169

State Entitlement 104,525,001

Conveyed To Date 99,199,369

Title Passed by Patent 63,644,614

Title Passed by Tentative Approval 35,554,754

State Remaining Entitlement 5,325,632

ANCSA State

Remaining Adjudication Workload 12,401,178 40,880,386

Remaining Survey Workload ~3,000,000 ~20,000,000


Geospatial Publication Module •  Replaces the GeoCommunicator

•  Contract Award to URS (Sept. 2013)

•  Corporate way to deliver our data

•  BLM lacks a simple, Google-like viewer for a broad range of users on a broad range of platforms.

•  Customer service in an open environment aligned with the new Open Data Executive Order.


Solution Requirement • Single point of access for both internal users and the public

• Enable search, visualization, and retrieval of geospatial and spatially-enabled data

• Coordinate and visualize information in an adaptable, convenient, accessible way

• Use cost effective, nimble, modern, and versatile technology



Minerals and Lands Records System (MLRS) – RFI •  Extent and status of the Nation’s land estate

•  General Land Office (1812)

•  Provide BLM, Federal agency partners, Congress and private-interest stakeholder

•  Legacy Rehost 2000 system (LR2000)

•  Document the rights and interest of the U.S. in the form of electronic documents, images and metadata to include geospatial references



FY 2015 Budget Justification •  Cadastral, Lands, and Realty Management

Consolidation

•  Transmission Corridors

•  Enterprise Geospatial Information System


Budget Structure and Technical Changes

•  The budget proposes to combine the current Cadastral Survey subactivity and Land and Realty Management subactivity into a new Cadastral, Lands, and Realty Management subactivity.

•  Consolidation allows flexible management at the field level to accomplish BLM’s highest priority needs and reflects the complementary nature of the programs and personnel.


Rights-of-Way Issuance •  $5.0 million increase in the Cadastral, Lands and

Realty Management program to support necessary upgrades for reliability and increased capacity of federal ROWs

•  Identify and designate energy corridors in low conflict areas and site high voltage transmission lines, substations and related infrastructure in an environmentally sensitive manner.

•  This increase complements the Secretary’s Powering Our Future initiative.


Enterprise Geospatial Information System

•  The budget request includes a $3.8 million increase in Resource Management Planning to support implementation of BLM’s Enterprise Geospatial Information System (EGIS).

•  The BLM EGIS proposal is integrated within Interior’s growing enterprise GIS capabilities and serves as a critical component of the Department’s corporate EGIS strategy


Documents

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