1/ Includes Native allotments (1,200,000 acres), headquarters, trade, manufacturing, communication, and homesites.

2/ Not included is potential workload of boundary surveys for national systems described in P.L. 96-487.

A funding increase of $1,035,000 from the FY 1981 level results from the
passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980.
The increase provides for the survey of 370 native inholding allotments
(70,000 acres) in 1982. Inholding surveys require on-the-ground line
running, corner turning and other leg work, this causes approximately
two times the cost of airborne systems.

Object Classification Distribution

The object class detail for this proposed increase of $1,035,000 is as follows:

Lower 48 States Surveys. In the lower 48 states completion of the rectangular grid has been postponed because of higher priority resurvey

needs.

Resurvey of public lands originally surveyed prior to 1910 is necessary because of the large number of pre 1910 fraudulent surveys conducted under contract. In addition, the materials which were originally used for monumentation, such as wood posts and rock piles, have since deteriorated or have been disarranged.

As a result, many monuments have been lost and now require replacement.
This maintenance type program for remonumentation is also carried out
for current high priority programs such as energy development and timber
sales.

Special surveys are irregular surveys that do not conform to the rectangular system. They usually locate singular lines or boundaries as provided by law for homesteads, townsites, airports, and other special purposes.

The FY 1982 base program for surveys in the lower 48 states provides for:

575,000 acres for realty operations (special occupancy trespass
problems in the Rio Grande area in New Mexico, the Front
Range in Colorado and the Wasatch Front Area in Utah)

710,000 acres for energy development (boundaries of geothermal areas in northern California and coal in the Green River-Hams Fork areas of Colorado and Wyoming, Southern Appalachian area in Alabama, and the Powder River area of Wyoming and Montana)

175,000 acres for forest development (legal boundaries for the
harvest of the allowable timber cut to aid the housing
industry)

230,000 acres for the BLM resource and management program (range,
recreation)

A funding reduction of $1,898,000 from the FY 1981 level results from an assessment currently being made of the direction of the cadastral survey programs. While this study is in progress, resurveys and special surveys are being stretched out to future years and all operations surveys except energy will be decreased from 1,550,000 acres in FY 1981 to 1,120,000 acres in FY 1982. This reduction will postpone completion of certain special surveys to resolve occupancy trespass in New Mexico, Colorado, and California. Energy surveys will be increased from 500,000 acres in FY 1981 to 710,000 acres in 1982.

Object Classification Distribution

The object class detail for this proposed reduction of $1,898,000 is as follows:

1/ Firefighting and rehabilitation expenditures depend on actual occurrence of fires that varies from year to year. Total firefighting and rehabilitation expenditures will be requested through supplemental appropriations; these expenditures are not subject to the four-year authorization requirements of Section 318 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. The amount requested here is the minimum amount needed to initiate emergency actions only.