Next Edition Website

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This web site provides information regarding the next edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions (Manual). In 2008 it is anticipated a draft of the next edition of the Manual will be complete. The draft will be subject to Agency, Departmental, and Governmental technical and legal reviews. The Manual is important to landowners, and land managers, and is critical to the surveying and land tenure communities. We will proceed in a deliberate and expedited manner and do intend to consider concerns of affected parties prior to the next edition of the Manual becoming final. In the future this web site will have updates on the next edition process. In the interim I can be contacted by using the following information.

Robert W. (Bob) Dahl, Cadastral Surveyor
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
Minerals, Realty & Resource Protection Directorate
Division of Lands, Realty & Cadastral Survey (WO-350)
U.S. Postal Mail Address: Mail Stop 1000, 1849 C St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20240
FEDEX, UPS & Street Address: Mail Stop 1000, 1620 L St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036

robert_w_dahl@blm.gov
Voice: (202) 452-5132
Fax: (202) 452-7708

ANNNOUNCEMENTS

Bob Dahl and Stan French will present on The Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions and Idaho State Law at the 2009 Idaho Society of Professional Lands Surveyors Annual Conference, March 11-14, 2009, Boise, Idaho. For more details visit the ISPLS website at: http://www.idahospls.org/

Bob Dahl and Steve Hansen will present on The Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions and Arizona State Law at the 2009 Arizona Professional Land Surveyors/Nevada Association of Land Surveyors Joint Conference, March 15-18, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. For more details visit the APLS website at: http://www.azpls.org/

Bob Dahl and Dave Morlan will present on The Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions and Nevada State Law at the 2009 Nevada Association of Land Surveyors/Arizona Professional Land Surveyors Joint Conference, March 15-18, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada. For more details visit the NALS website at: http://www.nv-landsurveyors.org/

GENERAL INFORMATION

Note: Files listed below are in pdf format
You may download the Adobe Reader at the following web site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .

Date		Subject	File Size
June 12, 2002		Email: Lead, Manual of Surveying Instructions	206kb
October 22, 2002		Email: Outreach for New Edition of Manual	78kb
November 15, 2002		Next Edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions	472kb
November 25, 2002		Research Tools	338kb
January 3, 2003		BLM Press Release	274kb
March 14, 2003		Abstract 2003 ACSM Presentation	23kb
March 21, 2003		POB Article - Land Surveyors "Bible" Gets Update	69kb
May 1, 2003		Public Land Survey States -Request for Assistance	366kb
August 20, 2003		ACSM Article - Cadastral Survey Accuracy Standards	1,241kb
October 16, 2003		National Assoc. of County Surveyors Article	175kb
March 9, 2004		Process and Procedure Outline for Next Edition	359kb
November 4, 2004		Mineral Surveys - An Aid to Bona Fide Rights as to Location	25kb
December 6, 2004		Notes on Types of Survey Systems	171kb

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

The focus of presentations have been the relevance of the Manual to the work of private surveyors. This is done by an examination of individual State's statutes, regulations and case law. The process and procedure for developing the next edition of the Manual is also discussed.   Note: You must have Powerpoint installed on your machine for these presentations to work.