# Presentation: 461625

## Access to BLM’s Land and Mineral Records using LR2000 and NILS’ GeoCommunicator

- Bureau of Land Management Open House

## Presentation Agenda

- Overview and Demo of LR2000 Public Reports
- National Integrated Land System (NILS)
- Overview and Demo of NILS GeoCommunicator
- NILS GIS Map Services
- Data Issues and Currency
- Tips & Tricks
- Future Development
- Questions & Answers

## BLM Records

- BLM manages millions of current and historical records

- Land Title

- Survey Records

- Use Authorizations

## Three ways to search for BLM records online

- General Land Office Records (GLO) (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/)
- LR2000 Public Reports
-    (http:// www.blm.gov/lr2000)
- GeoCommunicator (http:// www.geocommunicator.gov)

## GLO website – www.glorecords.blm.gov

- 1820 -1908 for Eastern Public Land States
- 1908-1960 for Public Land States

- Access to scanned images of federal land title documents from:

- Access to scanned Images of historical survey plats (in progress)

## LR2000 Public Reports - www.blm.gov/lr2000

- Land & Mineral Use Authorizations
- Land Classifications
- Land Withdrawals
- Land Title
- Mineral Ownership
- Mining Claims

- Provides access to reports of current and historical:

## NILS GeoCommunicator – Interactive Mapping

- Provides interactive mapping of:

-  LR2000 Records
-  Public Land Survey  Data (PLSS)
-  Federal Surface Management Agency Boundaries (SMA)

## What is LR2000? 

- Legacy Rehost 2000 is also called LR2000
- Text-based system that includes four systems within it:
- Case Recordation (CR)
- Mining Claims (MC)
- Legal Land Description (LLD)
- Status (ST)

## LR2000 - Case Recordation 1984 - Present

- Contains-Land Title Cases(lands in/out of the government)
- Exchanges
- Acquisitions
- Land Sales
- Grants
- Mineral Patents

## LR2000 - Case Recordation 1984 - Present

- Use Authorizations
- Rights-of-Way
- Oil &Gas Leasing
- Mineral Leasing
- Grazing
- Mineral Materials
- Other
- Withdrawals
- Land Classifications

## LR2000 - Mining Claims 1976 - Present

- 	Contains information on unpatented mining claims located on federal lands.

- 	Remember that mining claims are nominally located to the quarter section.

**Notes:**
Created in 1978 in response to FLPMA requirement that all active mining claims on federal lands must be recorded will BLM by October 20, 1979

Old record disposition schedule allowed destruction of mining claim case files 6 years and 3 months after the case file was closed

Current records disposition schedule call for permanent retention

The Mining Claim database may be your only link to the information that was contained in the old case file

## Collection of Public Land Survey System Data (PLSS)
Township/Range/Section/Aliquot, special survey, geopolitical information

- Township/Range/Section/Aliquot, special survey, geopolitical information

- Legal Land Description (derived from PLSS)

**Notes:**
a.k.a. Cadastral Survey data

Survey Type – Aliquot part, special survey such as mineral survey or homestead survey, unsurveyed, etc.

Geopolitical – BLM District/Resource Area, County, Congressional District, and surface management agency

Note:  The surface management agency in LLD is coded as BLM, even when the land is privately owned, unless the land is located within a National Park, National Forest, etc.

## LR2000 - Status

- All title transfers on federal lands as of time of data collection
- Also includes land withdrawals and land classifications in effect at the time of data collection

## Background

- Format of reports
- Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
- How to read a land description
- How mining claims are mapped
- Reports menu

## Slide 15

## Public Land Survey System

- A set of baselines and principal meridians that define rectangular divisions of land.
- Townships nominally 6 miles x 6 miles.
- Townships divided into 36 sections.
- Sections can be further subdivided.

## Read a Land Description

**Mer TWP  RNG     Sec SType SNr Suff  Subdivision**
- 06 0120N 0990W 013 ALIQ                    N2,NESW,NESWSE:
- 06 1200S 0451/2E 014 LOT                    1-4, 13, 14

- Land Description
- Serial Register Page

- Section 13
- 640 Acres

## Mapping Mining Claims - Nominal Location

- #1- 06  0120N  0240W  006  NW

**Section 6**** of CO 06 T12N R24W**

_**Mer  Twp     Rng      Sec Subdiv**_

- #2- 06  0120N  0240W  006  SW,SE

- #3- 06  0120N  0240W  006    SW,NW,NE, SE

**Section 6 640 Acres**

## LR2000 Reports Menu

## LR2000 Public Reports Demonstration

- You will learn how to find cases by:
- Customer name
- Geographic area
- Serial number
- Date fields (Actions)

## LR2000 Publication Web site Demonstration

- Web site _[http://www.blm.gov/lr2000](http://www.blm.gov/lr2000)_

## Live LR2000 Demo

- Begin live demo
- http://www.blm.gov/lr2000

## NILS

- National Integrated Land System
- (NILS)

## The National Integrated Land System (NILS)

- The National Integrated Land System (NILS) is a joint project between the BLM and the USDA Forest Service in partnership with the states, counties, and private industry to provide business solutions for the management and integration of ***cadastral records*** and ***land parcel information*** in a Geographic Information System (***GIS***) environment.

## GIS as an Information System

**  ****For Creating, Maintaining and Using ****Spatial Information**

**Views**

**Analysis**

**Mission Critical**
**Applications**

**Updates**

** ****Editing, Mapping, Spatial Analysis And Visualization**

**Products**

** ****A Generic Platform**

** ****Centralized GIS **

## National Integrated Land System

- NILS comprises transactional and publication components:
- The ArcGIS implementation for creating and maintaining Survey, LD, and Parcel data is the** *****transactional**** *component.
- The ArcIMS implementation for viewing, querying, and downloading data is the ***publication*** component.

- _[www.geocommunicator.gov](http://www.geocommunicator.gov/)_** **
- _[web.geocommunicator.gov](http://web.geocommunicator.gov/)_

**NILS transaction**

**NILS publication **

## Vertically Integrated Land Fabric Concept

## GeoCommunicator: Gateway to NILS Data

- _[http://www.geocommunicator.gov](http://www.geocommunicator.gov/)_

- Land Survey Informationto Download PLSS

- Land & Mineral Use Records – mineral leasing, withdrawals, classifications, mining claims, title, range allotments
- Base maps such as Federal Surface Management Agency

## NILS GeoCommunicator Data comes from

**LR2000->NILS**
**Cases That Affect Land Status - Conveyances**
**Mining Claim **
**Oil & Gas Agreements **
**Oil & Gas Leases**
**Coal Leases**
**Solid Mineral Leases**
**Rights of Way**
**Geothermal Leases**
**Geothermal Agreements**
**Use Leases and Permits**
**Mineral Materials Disposal**
**Stipulations**

**BLM/agencies->NILS**
**Federal SMA**
**Alt Source PLSS Stipulations**
**Range Allotment**
**O&G Sale Parcels**

**GCDB->NILS**
**Legal Description (LD) Fabric - PLSS**

**Data is coming from many sources**

**Map Services ->USGS, MS Terraserver**
**Road, Rivers,Streams****Urban Areas****Ortho-imagery****Topo maps**

##         How is LR2000 information extracted and processed by the NILS Parcel Management (PM) application and published to NILS GeoCommunicator?

- From LR2000 to NILS’ GeoCommunicator

## Creating Case Parcel Features from LR2000

**Creating Case Parcel Features from LR2000**

**EXTRACT**

**CREATE**

**GeoCommunicator**

**EXTRACT**

## Parcel Data Currency

| LR2000 Public Reports | Updated nightly |
| --- | --- |
| GeoCommunicator | Updated every
2-3 weeks |
| Software Releases:
New features, map layers, symbology, etc.
 | 
Every 6 weeks |

## Not All Data is in NILS

- No land descriptions in NILS to draw geometry is the main reason a record is not being displayed in GeoCommunicator.
- The LR2000 case record may contain incorrectly formed, complex, unsupported, or undefined land descriptions.

## Where We Have Survey Data 

## Demonstration of NILS GeoCommunicator

- You will learn:
- How to download PLSS data
- How to search for data using BLM record information: serial #, dates
- How to search for data spatially using location data: lat/long, T/R/S, place name
- How to determine ownership, rights & interests
- How to add reference themes
- How to get LR2000 public reports

## GeoCommunicator: Gateway to NILS Data

- _[http://www.geocommunicator.gov](http://www.geocommunicator.gov/)_

## 
Map Services

**Map Services**

## NILS Map Services (Image) in ArcMap

**Tips and Tricks**

## Tips and Tricks

- Email a link to the map using lat/long

- _[http://www.geocommunicator.gov/NILS-PARCEL2/map.jsp?Long=-106.10855&Lat=39.29002&MAP=MC&Label=My%20Claim](http://www.geocommunicator.gov/NILS-PARCEL2/map.jsp?Long=-106.10855&Lat=39.29002&MAP=MC&Label=My%20Claim)_

- Long=-106.10855Lat=39.29002&MAP=MC (OG,GT,SM,MC) &Label= My Claim

## If coordinates are in UTM...

- Use the NGS utility to convert UTM’s to lat/long:
- _[http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/TOOLS/utm.shtml](http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/TOOLS/utm.shtml)_

- Tip and Tricks

## Wyoming State Oil & Gas Commission

- Identify provides
-  PLSS data
-  SMA
-  Leasing Info
-  Sale Parcels
-  Links to LR2000

- NILS Lease

- _[http://](http://wogccms.state.wy.us/)__[wogccms.state.wy.us](http://wogccms.state.wy.us/)__[/](http://wogccms.state.wy.us/)_

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## Future Development

## Future Development: More Data

- Additional Reference Themes:
-  BLM Planning Area boundaries - RMPs
-  Subsurface Status – Split Estate for some states
-  Energy Policy Conservation Act (EPCA)      	(_[http://www.blm.gov/energy/epca.htm](http://www.blm.gov/energy/epca.htm)_)
-   Land Access Categorizations - Leasing Restrictions
-  Customer search
-   Break out of the Surface Management Agency data

## Future Development: New Alternate Source Data

## Future Development

- Energy Viewer
- Oil & Gas (leases & agreements)
- Oil & Gas Sale Parcels
- Geothermal (leases, agreements, KLA)
- Coal (leases & logical mining units)
- Wind Energy (ROW leases)
- Solar Energy (ROW leases)
- Oil Shale (solid mineral leases)
- Stipulations
- And More!

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## Thank you for attending our open house.