# Presentation: 850100

## NOAA’sNational Geodetic SurveyHeight ModernizationImplementationHelena, MtOctober 17, 2006

**Renee Shields**
**National Geodetic Survey**
**National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration**

## Height Mod Implementation

- How has Height Mod been implemented in other states?
- How does the U.S. Federal Budget process work?
- How do NOAA Grants work?

## California  

- Leveling could not be used in NAVD88 adjustment so couldn’t implement NAVD88
- Some heights in CA in error by more than a meter
- No way to keep up with continuously re-leveling
- GPS could be immediately used to meet some of California’s requirements

## California     (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) 

- Projects
- San Francisco Bay Demonstration Project
- Hamilton Field Restoration
- Post-earthquake surveys, e.g. Hector Mine, Yolo County
- Leveling support from CalTrans
- Densify CORS Network
- Establish NAVD88 orthometric heights on CORS
- Develop RTK networks
- Educate users on Epochs
- Update HTDP, Geoid models

**California     **(Scripps Institution of Oceanography)** **

## North Carolina

- Become Cooperative Technical State
- Get additional grant funds from FEMA – update flood maps
- Contract GPS Height Mod projects by county
- NCGS perform leveling concurrent with GPS
- Distribute data, maps via web site
- Partner with NCA&T
- develop training materials for workshops (non-traditional and traditional users)
- Develop 4-year Geospatial degree program
- Perform studies to develop standards for new techniques
- Develop software, tools, models

- (North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources )

## Louisiana       (Louisiana State University)

- Establish LSRC
- Re-establish outdated vertical network – update NAVD88, tie to sea-level datums
- Perform subsidence, coastal erosion studies – develop HTDP, storm surge models for vertical motion
- Study new technologies for GPS surveys
- Educate users, managers to subsidence issues

**Louisiana       **(Louisiana State University)

## Wisconsin    (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)

- Supplement control where marks have been destroyed
- Create network that can fully utilize      GPS technologies  (cost effective)
- Become role model and trainer for other states’ programs

**Wisconsin    **(Wisconsin Department of Transportation)

- Provide accurate vertical data for highway design (vertical component of the geodetic network)
- Improve ability to delineate basins
- Improve data quality to provide more accurate DTMs

## 
Expand CORS network throughout the State
USM Gulf Coast Research Lab installed National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) station co-located with CORS 
Height Modernization survey along Mississippi River (Cairo, IL to the Gulf) completed in cooperation with USACE

- Expand CORS network throughout the State
- USM Gulf Coast Research Lab installed National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) station co-located with CORS
- Height Modernization survey along Mississippi River (Cairo, IL to the Gulf) completed in cooperation with USACE

**Mississippi **(USM)

**Alabama **(ALDOR)

- Alabama Department of Revenue manage program;  Department of Transportation oversees surveying tasks
- Densify CORS and HARN
- Re-level where needed
- Educate surveyors for contract work
- Establish statewide SLIMS (Statewide Land Info Management Systems)

## Other Funded States

- Washington (DNR)
- Ensure a high-accuracy geodetic reference network in WA (GPS, monuments, CORS, VRS networks, geodetic models)
- Promote the development of specifications and guidelines for GPS surveys; Serve as an educational source for users
- Texas (TAMUCC)
- Establish TSRC
- Improve Gulf Coast geoid model
- NAVD88 heights on all CORS; tie CORS to tidal datums
- Measure/monitor subsidence in Harris Galveston area
- Kentucky (Morehead State)
- Arizona (ASLD)

## Other Interested States

- Invited to brief congressional staff and/or present at conferences, forums:
- 		AK, AR, FL, CO, HI,
- 		IL, MI, MO, MT, NH,
- 		NM, PA, PR, TN, VI
- Height Mod projects done:
- 		FL, NE

## Evaluate your needs

- How much vertical control do you have/need?
- Passive control disappearing because of development or other activities?
- Control network easily maintained or densified to suit community’s needs?
- How valid is the control network?
- Is there movement from crustal deformation, e.g. earthquakes (Yellowstone), glacial rebound?
- What will it take to fix it?

## Montana’s needs?

- Management of forest fires - evacuation planning, effective firefighting by knowing accurate positioning and slope

**Montana’s needs?**

- Mudslides, rockslides – may have contributed to decimation of passive control; accurate control network assists with cost effective rebuilding efforts

- Agriculture – effective use of irrigation, pesticides, fertilizer, saves money and environment
- Conversion from NGVD29 to NAVD88 for water management, GIS applications

- Forests in western 1/3 of MT

- Wheat in eastern 2/3 of MT

## Montana’s needs?

## U.S. Federal Budget Process

- Federal Fiscal Year: October 1 – September 30
- Budget Process
- Presidential budget
- Congress adopts budget resolution – response to the Presidents budget
- Consideration of appropriations – House and Senate conferences
- Negotiate differences
- Budget Bill goes to President to veto or sign
- Bill signed into law

## President’s Budget

- Initiates Budget Process
- Submitted to Congress February     2 for upcoming FY
- Recommended spending levels     for programs and agencies

- Represents “Budget         Authority”
- Budget submitted to Congress with justification materials from agencies

## Budget Resolution

- Congress’ response to President’s budget
- A Guide for considering various budget bills
- Not law, i.e. doesn’t go to President
- Does set ceilings for each bill
- Covers at least 5 years, upcoming plus 4 more
- Required by Congressional Budget Act of 1974
- No penalty for not adopting a resolution
- 1999 and 2001 are only 2 years Congress has failed to adopt a resolution

## Appropriations Committees

- House and Senate Appropriations Committees hold hearings for consideration of 13 separate bills via 13 sub-committees
- Adopted Budget Resolution provides ceilings for sub-committees to use as guidelines
- Sub-committees begin to mark up bills under their jurisdiction

## Appropriations Committees

- House
- 65 members: 35(R), 29(D), 1(I)
- Current Chair: Jerry Lewis, CA (R)
- Senate
- 28 members: 15(R), 13(D)
- Current Chair: Thad Cochran, MS(R)
- 13 Subcommittees
- Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
_***Commerce, Justice, and Science  Defense***_
- District of Columbia
- Energy and Water
- Homeland Security
- Interior and Related Agencies
- Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
- Legislative Branch
- Military Construction and Veterans Affairs
- State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Transportation, Treasury, the Judiciary, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

## Appropriations Committees

- House

- Senate

- House Appropriations Committee

- HA Sub 1

- Senate Appropriations Committee

- HA Sub 2

- HA Sub 3

- HA Sub 13

- SA Sub 1

- SA Sub 1

- SA Sub 3

- SA Sub 13

**Appropriations Committees**

## Appropriations Committees

- Sub-committees submit bills to full House/Senate for vote
- Bills are considered and passed in each chamber in August and September
- There are still big differences between the House version and Senate version
- Little time left before start of FY to resolve differences
- Hence -    CONTINUING RESOLUTION

## House and Senate Appropriations Committees negotiate their differences
Negotiate differences
Reach an agreement within range of differences
Budget Bill goes to President who has 10 days to veto or sign

- Negotiate differences
- Reach an agreement within range of differences
- Budget Bill goes to President who has 10 days to veto or sign

**Appropriations Committees**

## President Acts on Bill

- Does nothing within 10 days
- If Congress is in session, Bill becomes law
- If Congress is adjourned, Bill is vetoed
- Vetoes Bill
- Bill goes back to Congress
- If House and Senate pass bill with a 2/3 vote, Bill becomes law
- If not, Bill dies and they start over
- Signs Bill into law

## Appropriations ($ in thousands)

|  | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AL |  |  |  | 1,989K | 2,000K | 1,971K |  |
| AZ |  |  |  |  |  | 500K |  |
| CA | 1,000K | 1,000K | 1,000K | 1,000K | 500K | 933K |  |
| KY |  |  |  |  | 500K | 500K |  |
| LA |  | 1,000K | 500K | 497K | 497K |  |  |
| MS |  |  | 500K | 500K | 600K | 600K |  |
| NC | 1,000K | 1,000K | 1,000K | 993K | 1,000K | 933K |  |
| SC |  |  | 500K | 497K |  | 467K |  |
| TX |  |  |  |  | 750K | 750K |  |
| WA |  |  |  | 500K | 500K |  |  |
| WI |  | 500K | 500K | 2,989K | 3,000K | 3,000K |  |

## 2007 Marks

|  | 2006 Pres Request | 2006 House Mark | 2006 Senate Mark | 2006 Conference Mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geodesy Base | 22,190 | 24,000 | 20,219 | 20,295 |
| NSRS | 0 | 0 | 1,971 | 1,971 |
| Height Mod Study-NGS Implementation | 233 |  | 233 | 233 |
| Height Mod Study-NC | 933 |  | 933 | 933 |
| Height Mod Study-CSRC | 933 |  | 933 | 933 |
| Geodetic Survey-LA |  |  |  |  |
| Height Mod Study-MS |  |  | 600 | 600 |
| Digital Earth Model-MS |  |  | 3,000 |  |
| Height Mod TX |  |  | 1,600 | 750 |
| Washington |  |  |  |  |
| Height Mod Study-WI |  |  |  | 3,000 |
| Geodetic Survey-SC | 467 |  | 467 | 467 |
| Geodetic Survey-AL |  |  |  | 1,971 |
| Geodetic Survey-KY |  |  |  | 500 |
| Geodetic Survey-AZ |  |  |  | 500 |
| Comprehensive Elev Prj for Gulf States |  |  |  |  |
| Total | 24,756 | 24,000 | 29,956 | 32,153 |

## 2007 Marks

|  | 2006 Conference Mark | 2007 Pres Request | 2007 House Mark | 2007 Senate Mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Geodesy Base | 20,295 | 21729 | 22,000 | 21,729 |
| NSRS | 1,,971 |  |  |  |
| Height Mod Study-NGS Implementation | 233 | 231 |  | 231 |
| Height Mod Study-NC | 933 | 924 |  | 900 |
| Height Mod Study-CSRC | 933 | 924 |  | 900 |
| Geodetic Survey-LA |  |  |  | 2,300 |
| Height Mod Study-MS | 600 |  |  | 600 |
| Digital Earth Model-MS |  |  |  | 5,000 |
| Height Mod TX | 750 |  |  | 500 |
| Washington |  |  |  |  |
| Height Mod Study-WI | 3,000 |  |  |  |
| Geodetic Survey-SC | 467 | 462 |  | 400 |
| Geodetic Survey-AL | 1,971 |  |  | 2,000 |
| Geodetic Survey-KY | 500 |  |  |  |
| Geodetic Survey-AZ | 500 |  |  |  |
| Comprehensive Elev Prj for Gulf States |  |  |  | 7,000 |
| Total | 32,153 | 24,270 | 22,000 | 41,560 |

## Height Modernization Appropriations

- (FY01-FY06)

| Fiscal Year | Appropriations  | States |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY 2001 | 2.25 M | CA, NC |
| FY 2002 | 3.75 M |   CA, NC, LA, WI |
| FY 2003 | 3.75 M | CA, NC, LA, WI, MS |
| FY 2004 | 9.0 M | CA, NC, LA, WI, MS, 
AL, WA, SC |
| FY 2005 | 9.6 M | CA, NC, LA, WI, MS, 
AL, WA, TX, KY |
| FY 2006 | 9.9 M | CA, NC, WI, MS, 
AL, SC, TX, KY, AZ |

** ****B A C K G R O U N D**

## NGS’ Role - NOAA Grants

- Appropriations puts funds in NGS budget
- Amount and recipient designated by Congress
- NGS publishes Request for Applications
- Non-competitive
- Available for particular applicants only
- Can be up to 5 years

## NGS’ Role - NOAA Grants

- Designated organization applies
- Writes proposal, budget plan
- Includes application forms, supporting documentation
- Review by NGS and outside reviewers
- Award managed and monitored by NGS

## NGS’ Role and Responsibilities

**Outreach/Technology Transfer -- **advisors, forums, workshops, conferences, publications, training, outsourcing
**Project Leadership** **--** project planning, specifications, guidelines, CORS management
**Quality Control --** training, assess techniques, survey control, load projects into NGS database
**Research and Development** **--** software development, remote sensing, modeling, investigate GPS techniques, antenna calibrations

**NGS’ Role and Responsibilities**

## Other Approaches – National

- Funding included in NGS budget – consistent, not threatened by whims of Congress
- Program recognized by NOAA – added support to continue
- NGS coordinates activities around the country, prioritizing based on need
- NGS can redirect funds as needed, not restricted to spending within one state

## Other Approaches – Regional

- Alternative if can’t get support for National program
- Needs don’t stop at state boundaries
- States within a region work in concert to support common issues/goals
- More efficient use of funds
- Encourages partnerships
- Congress more likely to continue funding if affects a larger group – shows importance, commitment to program on part of users

## Other Approaches – Regional

## The Future

- Continue efforts to maintain and grow the program
- Research new technology to enhance HMP efforts
- Continue to investigate opportunities to modify procedures and processes to improve efficiencies
- Provide outreach, training, and support to states interested in Height Modernization

## Questions?

**Renee Shields**
**Grants Manager**
- N/NGS1, SSMC3, Room 9357
- 1315 East-West Highway
- Silver Spring, MD  20910
- 301-713-3231, x116
- Renee.Shields@noaa.gov

**Contact information**