FGDC National Boundaries Group - Federal Lands Working Group (FLWG) Webinar

June 14, 2017

Prepared by: Lisa Johnson PAD-US Coordinator, USGS Cooperator [email protected]

Participants (27):

 USGS: Bob Pierce, Larry Moore, Gita Urban-Mathieux, Laurie Temple, Elizabeth McCartney  BOEM: Doug Vandegraft  Census: Dierdre Bevington-Attardi  USACE: Ginny Dickerson  NPS: Kyle Arndt (Roger Johnson out, send notes)  BLM: Don Buhler, Pat Mahoney, Doug Albright, John Varner, Barbara McKay Archibald, Dario Lunardi, Ryan Tietjen, Joel Harrington  USBR: Jerome Jackson, Barbara Simpson, Michele Porter, Bruce Whitesell, Kurt Wille  DOI/NWCG: Andrew Bailey  DOD: David LaBranche out (send notes)  USFS: Troy Warburton out (send notes)  FWS: Sean Killen, Ron Salz out (send notes)  BIA: Beth Wenstrom  Cooperators: Lisa Johnson (USGS, PAD-US Coordinator), Mason Croft (USGS, PAD-US Technical Specialist), Larry Orman (USGS, GreenInfo Network)

Meeting Objective: Review the DRAFT Federal Areas.gdb for PAD-US 2.0, discuss next steps and hear about the new BLM Navigator.

Agenda Outline

Welcome, intros and announcements (3:00 ET)

 FLWG website updates – 2017 call notes

DRAFT FederalAreas.gdb now available (Lisa, Mason, Julie)

Geodatabase download link sent directly to call participants and contributors (June 22nd).

Review in ArcGIS directly (comments due July 7th)

Reference: 1  PADUS2_0_FedLands_Source_Documentation, especially “Master Crosswalk”  PADUS2_0 Standard Tables

Review:

 Category  Owner Name and Manager Name  Designation Type  Unit Name  State Name  Source data in all “local” fields, when available  Reference fields complete (Aggregator Source, GIS Source, GIS Source date)  Feature class placement (Fee, Easement, Designation, Proclamation, Marine)  Non GIS users – see topology overlap errors and census state standard in

Updates include:

 FWS – parcel ownership, management and designations  USFS – parcel ownership, management and designations  NPS – parcel ownership, management and designations  BOEM – parcel ownership and management  BLM – SMA, ACECs, WSR Corridors  DOD – MITRA boundaries  Census – 2016 TIGERLine for state jurisdictional boundaries and “State Name” attribute

Transfers from PAD-US 1.4:

 NPS – Designated and other categories of Wilderness  USFS – Inventoried Roadless Areas  USACE – Recreation areas and reservoirs  USBR – Managed areas (legacy data)  NRCS – Easements (update from NCED in 2.0)  BIA – Removed as requested, final action pending June 26th call

Files Pending:

 BLM – ADMU file (Field office names) and NLCS designations  NOAA – Marine Protected Areas

PAD-US 2.0 – database structure change

New feature classes to better manage different data types and overlaps:

2 . “Designation” – Includes Congressional Designations and Presidential Proclamations (Wilderness, Wild and Scenic River, National Recreation Area), admin designations (ACEC, RNA), leases or agreements (“Category” = ‘Other’) that overlap fee ownership.

. “Proclamation” – Includes boundaries representing the exterior extent (outline) of the following land types: NPS Proclamation, FWS Approved Acquisition, DOD Military Installations, BIA American Indian Lands (pending).

PAD-US Review Tool updates (Lisa, Larry, all)

The MapCollaborator “PAD-US Edition” developed by GreenInfo Network (a non profit and USGS GAP Cooperator) for internal FLWG use to support data development for PAD-US.

 Gathers and routes comments to data stewards – not connected yet o Test search and comment function

 Includes PAD-US 1.4 Services – update with 2.0 after USGS publication  Check large and small topology overlaps o Includes PAD-US 2.0 topology errors – slivers (less than 5 acres) and large overlaps (greater than 5 acres)  Check current Census State boundary file (TIGERLine 2016 States)

H.R. 2199 Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act of 2017

May 17, 2017 Call notes

 Roger Johnson (NPS) summarized bill for the group in May. To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other purposes.  Bob Pierce (USGS) – likely related to efforts by John Paletiello of MAPPS to obtain support – private company provides data, rather than managing agency.  Nancy von Meyer (Census) will look into H.R. 2199 and report updates. June 14, 2017 UPDATE from Nancy: 5/23/17

On May 23, 2017, a legislative hearing for the House Committee on Natural Resources included the introduction of H.R. 2199 by Rep. Cramer and witness testimony by John Palatellio.

Read Hearing memo and video: https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx? EventID=401967

3 Representative Cramer – 26:36 - 29:40

John Palatellio – 39:30 - 44:10

Bill Summary H.R. 2199, introduced by Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND-At Large), is a bipartisan bill that directs the Secretary of the Interior to create and maintain a cadastre of Federal real property to promote efficient use of real property and support land management activities such as resource development and conservation, agricultural use, active forest management, and environmental protection. COST A congressional budget office cost estimate has not yet been completed for this bill. CBO scored a previous version of this bill during the 113th Congress as costing $1.4 billion over a 5 year period.

Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017

The Digital Coast Act, S. 110, passed the Senate by unanimous consent. A companion House bill will be introduced by Rep. Ruppersburger of MD and Young of AK when Congress comes back from its Memorial Day recess.

Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Mark Warner (D-VA), Dean Heller (R-NV) and Ron Wyden (D- OR) jointly introduced S. 1253, the "Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017" to improve the coordination and use of geospatial data.

News Release: http://augustafreepress.com/sens-warner-hatch-reintroduce-bipartisan-geospatial- data-act/

More News: https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/us-geospatial-data-act-gda/

The Senate bill is S. 1253. It was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

Text of the bill can be found here: https://www.scribd.com/document/349427074/Geospatial-Data-Act-GDA

This bill appears to be focused on the organization of FGDC and NSDI (NGDA).

CHALLENGE for FLWG

Need to increase awareness of PAD-US/FLWG efforts – how to get the word out?

o Need to get PAD-US on the National Score Card (COGO) . Dierdre Bevington-Attardi (Census, NGDA Gov Units Theme Lead) was asked for COGO nominations. . She will nominate PAD-US when time and will share updates with FLWG. o Publish a “Federal Lands Edition” from PAD-US 2.0? 4 . Currently, FedLands.gdb developed by FLWG is only an input to the full PAD- US. . Derivative product with purposeful branding and metadata may help clarify product as the best available representation of federal ownership with management designations, published by USGS in cooperation with the FLWG. . USGS and FLWG to assess needs and resources during PAD-US 2.0 development.  USGS open to consider FLWG needs, provided connection to PAD-US maintained. o Is a separate Federal product needed or just name map differently (focus outreach)? . PAD-US is broad to meet needs but name causes confusion. . Highlight parcel ownership and management designations . Land and Marine . “Proclamation” feature class o Who are stakeholders? . CRS? . USTopo? o Assess needs and available resources – draft memo

BLM Navigator Update (Doug Albright, Don Buhler)

Doug Albright – Navigator Technical Project Manager ([email protected])

BLM Navigator – Goal to provide a one stop shop when searching for BLM data (internal for DOI and external for public)

NEED: lots of data, lots of sites, many portals. Navigator helps you find data.

Requires robust indexing of internal and external geospatial data

Currently 13 million records indexed internally

About 12,000 records available externally (takes time to determine what should be public or internal)

Questions:

 Is there a way to highly rank authoritative data? o Rating is currently user based, filters by location may help o Consider adding “Commonly used” or “feature datasets” to top banner o Can’t find authoritative PAD-US 1.4 developed by FLWG . Needs to rank higher than older PAD-US versions and CBI edition  How does this relate to GeoPlatform or Data.gov? o Data.gov should be able to harvest data from Navigator eventually. o Intent is to complement existing systems, not duplicate

5 Update for FLWG available winter 2018

Functionality will remain the same, improving the depth of searches is constant work

Schedule next call

 Wed, July 19th (3-4 ET) o Draft Federal Areas.gdb – version 2 . Includes “PAD-US” attributes  Conservation measures (GAP Status Code, IUCN Category)  Public Access measures  Date of Establishment  Local Reviews . Example summary reports

 Future calls, 2nd Wednesday of each month (3-4 ET): o Aug 9th o Sept 13th o Oct 11th o Nov 8th o Dec 13th

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FLWG FY17 Objectives:

 Automate lands data translation into PAD-US format.  Contribute to the next PAD-US update, published by USGS.  Assess and improve inventory completeness.  Assess and improve core attribute compatibility between agency datasets.  Identify, manage or edit major topology overlap errors (boundaries) between agency datasets.  Share FLWG goals and accomplishments through outreach.

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