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Bureau of Indian Affairs - Realty and Trust

The Real Estate Program is responsible for managing and leasing 56 million acres of tribal and individually allotted trust lands. The program maintains all land ownership records which is often complicated by the fact that some of the lands have hundreds of owners in a single tract.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • In the past, when an owner of an interest in trust land died, each heir inherited an undivided share of the interest. While the number of acres remains largely unchanged, the amount of time required to change and verify land ownership has expanded as the number of owners and interests has increased.
  • The American Indian Probate Reform Act included provisions to address the inheritance of these small interests. The effect of the recent changes cannot be fully assessed at this time to determine their impact on program efficiency and effectiveness.
  • The program lacks goals and measures.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Continue to take steps to ensure that ownership data has been verified and that responses to inquiries on realty and leasing information are provided in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Establish baselines and targets for the performance and annual measures.
  • Ensure that probate activities are maintained at a level sufficient to eliminate the backlog by the end of Fiscal Year 2008.

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