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Bureau of Land Management - Realty and Ownership Management

This program performs a variety of functions affecting land ownership and uses. The program issues rights-of-way authorizations, maintains Federal land ownership data, and makes land tenure adjustments, including the conveyance of lands to certain parties in the State of Alaska.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • At the operational level, the program is relatively well-managed, but the bureau lacks adequate performance measures that focus on meaningful, strategic outcomes.
  • The agency had not been adequately recovering the costs of processing certain realty actions for identifiable users. This has contributed, in part, to a continuing backlog in processing use authorizations.
  • The Alaska conveyance program has operated in a morass of complicated and often conflicting statutes, regulations, and case law. This has prevented the agency from completing land conveyances in a timely manner. Although conveyance activities have been ongoing since the 1960s, less than 50% of all targeted acres have actually been conveyed to the State and to Alaska native corporations.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing new measures and refining a few existing measures to improve the program's focus on performance, and in particular, on outcomes.
  • Implementing recently-completed regulations to improve cost recovery within the realty program and allow for more timely response to public demand for land use authorizations and other bureau actions.
  • Implementing recent legislative changes to the Alaska conveyance program to reduce the cost of completing required conveyances and to speed up conveyances and the eventual completion of the program.

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