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NSPS
Last week, NSPS News and Views provided a report from Wendy Lathrop, NSPS representative to the FEMA Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC). Unfortunately, we the editors provided an incorrect link to access the "new Elevation Certificate." The correct link is here. Our apologizes to those who attempted to utilize the incorrect link, and to Wendy for all the calls she received as a result.
Read Wendy’s report on the January 2016 meeting of the TMAC.
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NSPS
The NSPS-MAPPS National Surveying, Mapping and Geospatial Conference will be held March 14-18, 2016 at the Hilton Hotel in the Crystal City section of Arlington, VA, just outside of Washington, DC. The conference will feature technical sessions; exhibits; a workshop on the new ALTA standards; a mock trail; briefings by federal agencies on programs, budgets, and upcoming contracting opportunities; "Lobby Day" meetings with Congressmen and Senators on Capitol Hill; committee meetings; and networking with fellow surveyors. Registration will open soon. For information, go to www.surveyingandmapping.net.
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Gary Kent, Chair of the NSPS ALTA-NSPS Standards Committee, recently visited GeoLearn studios and created a 24-minute video outlining the changes that will be in effect in the standards as of February 23, 2016. Click https://youtu.be/DsI8fKk7Tuo to watch this video.
If you need a copy of the standards, click: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nsps.us.com/resource/resmgr/ALTA_Standards/2016_Standards.pdf?hhSearchTerms=%22alta%22 to find a PDF of the 2016 standards from the new NSPS website.
You can also click: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nsps.us.com/resource/resmgr/ALTA_Standards/2016_Standards_REDLINE_20151.pdf?hhSearchTerms=%22alta%22 to find the 2011 standards marked up to show changes.
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Question:
We have been hired to prepare ALTA Surveys on a number of properties across our state for a solar farm company. This company is looking at leasing the land that they will use for a solar field. In some cases they will be leasing the entire property. In other cases they will only be leasing a portion of the property. Can we limit our survey to only include the lease area if the legal description in the title commitment is for the entire property? Or do we need to create a new legal for the lease area and have the title commitment reference this new legal?
Response:
There is nothing wrong at all with what you propose; you can do a land title survey of only a portion of the property. It is likely that the first title commitment will reflect the entire property because they have no description for the lease areas. I suspect once they have descriptions (which you would presumably write), they will issue revised commitments covering only the leases.
However, I would talk with the title company and the client’s attorney about how to approach this so there are no surprises, and you can avoid potential rework. In the end, it is up to them as to what property will be described in Schedule A and therefore insured, not the surveyor.
NSPS
 NSPS manages the administrative elements of the Certified Survey Technician program which began several years ago through the Bureau of Land Management. Through the years, the program has been upgraded, including a continuing education element. Donald Buhler, Branch Chief, BLM Cadastral Survey and Lands, and Ron Scherler, formerly with BLM and currently serving as CFedS Training support, will join host Curt Sumner to discuss the current status of the program, as well as its projected future.
If you are unable to listen to the show when it is being broadcast, listen to the archive of the show at americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
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NSPS
The Obama administration is proposing to spend nearly $4 billion over the coming years to accelerate the acceptance of driverless cars on U.S. roads and curb traffic fatalities and travel delays. The proposal, which would require congressional approval, aims to have federal regulators work with auto makers and others to craft policies and rules for vehicles that can move without a driver at the wheel. Self-navigating vehicles will require highly accurate road data derived for surveying and mapping.
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The Obama administration announced last Friday it will halt new coal leases on federal lands — a blow to the coal industry and reduction in the demand for public land surveys. Companies will continue to be able to mine coal reserves already under lease. Roughly 40 percent of the coal produced in the United States comes from federal lands, the vast majority from Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.
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The Small Business Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives last week approved bipartisan legislation to expand and improve opportunities for America’s small firms to compete for federal contracts. The measure, H.R. 4341, the Defending America’s Small Contractors Act of 2016, was approved unanimously by the panel and now advances to the full House of Representatives for consideration. The bill modernizes the Small Business Act, and the SBA’s reporting requirements, to ensure that the language used is clear and consistent across federal procurement programs; strengthens the small business advocates within SBA and other federal agencies so they can promote competition and compliance; improves opportunities for small businesses to compete for subcontracts, and then to capitalize on that experience to compete as prime contractors, thereby strengthening the industrial base; improves coordination and data sharing between the SBA’s government-wide mentor-protégé program, civilian agency mentor-protégé programs, and the mentor-protégé program at the Department of Defense; and implements reforms to ensuring integrity in small business programs, such as the agricultural size standards, veterans contracting programs, SBA operations and contracting officer training programs.
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 The Virginia Association of Surveyors (VAS) has unveiled a new, forward looking logo. In the association’s first-ever video message to its members, VAS President David Gardy and incoming President Michael Starling introduced the new branding that will be used at the association’s 68th annual convention this weekend in Norfolk, VA.
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Deadline to reserve conference hotel room at special conference rate is THIS FRIDAY: JAN. 22.
Registration remains open for The Future of Surveying…You!, the 2nd FIG Young Surveyors North American Meeting. Being held in conjunction with, and generously hosted by the Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors (MSPS), the meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Minneapolis, MN. As an added benefit, young surveyors attending the meeting can attend the MSPS Annual Conference (February 11-12) at no charge (non-MSPS members only).
Registration form and more details at: https://goo.gl/IbvayI.
The program and hotel information available at: http://goo.gl/hP9428. Key leaders from the BLM, NGS, NCEES, FIG, FIG YSN, NSPS along with top industry management from Trimble, Leica, and Autodesk will be participating:
INDUSTRY
Terry Bennett- Senior Industry Strategist for Civil Infrastructure, Autodesk
Bryn Fosburgh- Vice President, Trimble Navigation
Ken Mooyman- President, Leica Geosystems (NAFTA)
GOVERNMENT
Don Buhler- Chief Cadastral Surveyor, US Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Dave Zenk- Geodetic Advisor- Northern Plains Region, National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS (NSPS)
J. Anthony (Tony) Cavell- President-Elect
Curt Sumner- Executive Director
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EXAMINERS FOR ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING (NCEES)
Lisa Hanni- Chair, Committee on Examinations for Professional Surveyors; Member, Future of Surveying Task Force
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SURVEYORS (FIG)
Steve Frank- Past Chair FIG Commission 2 (Professional Education); Professor/Program Coordinator- Surveying Engineering, New Mexico State University
FIG YOUNG SURVEYORS SOUTH AMERICAN NETWORK
Melissa Robert- Engineer Surveyor, Uruguay Ministry of Transport and Public Works
FIG YOUNG SURVEYORS NETWORK
Paula Dijkstra- Vice-Chair
The meeting will include a special panel discussion on the future of surveying
IMPORTANT NOTE: REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 100 APPLICATIONS RECEIVED! If you want to participate in the meeting, you must register by January 30, 2015 (subject to capacity limit of 100 attendees).
Platinum Sponsors: Trimble Navigation and Leica Geosystems
Endorsed by the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) and Professional Surveyors Canada (PSC)
Media support: The American Surveyor
Inside GNSS
Having settled its lawsuits against a trio of GPS receiver manufacturers, would-be broadband provider New LightSquared is now pointing to those settlements to support its assertion that it is fully addressing GPS interference issues.
The settlements, which were described as "Coexistence Agreements" in a letter filed with the FCC, set power limits that the company must ask to incorporate into its FCC license.
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Subscription aerial mapping sets out to rid the industry of its dated legacies. One in particular is the commissioning of aerial mapping projects. The process can be bureaucratic, expensive, and subject to a long approval. This could lead to delays and inconsistency in data deliveries, which is especially critical for end-users whose aerial imagery needs are based on seasonal conditions.
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Sensors & Systems
It would be naive to think that there are no repercussions related to geospatial programs and research from the upcoming presidential elections. After all, the so-called "GoreSat" whole Earth-observing capacity was mothballed under George Bush's first term and only became reality in Obama's second term. In that same timeframe, however, we saw the rise of geospatial intelligence investment to support war efforts that created a geospatial economic engine the likes we'd never seen before.
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GPS World
The fifth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System constellation lifted off on time Jan. 20 from Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island, on India's east coast.
As in the previous four launches of IRNSS satellites, the navigation satellite rode aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. This is the 33rd launch for the PSLV.
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