Legislative Update

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• Legislative Update
• NSGIC Annual Conference
• John Palatiello
• MAPPS Executive Director
• October 4, 2006

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• Nations only trade association of private
  geospatial firms, formed 1982
• 160 member firms
• Commercial satellite remote sensing
• Airborne remote sensing imagery
• Value-added
• satellite and airborne remote sensing, aerial
  photography, photogrammetry, GIS, hydrography,
  charting, LiDAR, and related value-added and
  geospatial services, conversion, integration,
  consulting, hardware, software and suppliers

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Where MAPPS Members Say They Get the Most Benefit
from Membership

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• MAPPS Strategic Plan
• Revised 2006

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• MAPPS Mission Statement
• "To promote the geospatial business and
  professionalism in its practice

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• MAPPS Value Statement
• The foundation of MAPPS as the premier
  association of private sector firms in the
  contemporary geospatial profession rests on an
  essential set of core values that define, inform,
  and guide our professional practice. These values
  reflect the history and ongoing development of
  the profession and have been advanced, expanded,
  and refined by numerous public policy positions
  and internal operational activities of MAPPS.
  Among these are
• ? Provide an opportunity for networking and
  information sharing among and between member firm
  principals, owners, partners and senior
  executives.
• ? Facilitate cooperative working relationship
  among firms in the marketplace and competition in
  the free market based on mutual respect and
  professionalism within applicable laws.
• ? Promote education and lifelong learning.
• ? Promote a strong, vibrant and capable market of
  private geospatial firms in the economy and the
  provision of services, data and products to
  government agencies at all levels.
• ? Expand the economic opportunity for member
  firms.
• ? Promote professionalism and ethical conduct by
  members.
• ? Provide service to the profession, its
  clients and the general public.
• ? Encourage social responsibility in the
  provision of geospatial services, data and
  products to improve the quality of life of all
  citizens and solve societal problems.

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• MAPPS tracks mapping, GIS and geospatial
  legislation in all 50 State legislatures, based
  on key words, and posts reports on our web site,
  www.mapps.org

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Legislative Affairs Committee Members

• Marvin Miller, Aerometric, Inc.,
• Chairman MAPPS President-Elect
• Kass Green, The Alta Vista Company
• Michael Janus, Tenix LADS, Inc.
• Anne Miglarese, EarthData International
• Jim Page, James W. Sewall Company
• Dawn Sienicki, DigitalGlobe
• Bob Richards, Fugro Pelagos, Inc.
• Jeff Lovin, Woolpert

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Appropriations/Funding

• Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
• DHS Geospatial Management Office (GMO)
• Flood Map Modernization (FEMA)
• MAF/TIGER (Census)
• National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  (NOAA)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

• Cadastral Survey funding has decreased
• 2005 Actual - 16.691M
• 2006 Enacted - 15.790M
• 2007 House 13.751M
• 2007 Senate - 15.711M

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BLM continued

• Alaska Conveyance funding has fluctuated
• 2005 Actual - 41.920M
• 2006 Enacted - 48.920M
• 2007 House 35.234M
• 2007 Senate - 40.002M

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DHS Geospatial Management Office (GMO)

• GMO funding has increased
• 2005 Actual - 8.000M
• 2006 Enacted - 13.255M
• 2007 House N/A
• 2008 Senate N/A

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Flood Map Modernization (FEMA)

• Flood Mapping has fluctuated slightly
• 2005 Actual - 200.000M
• 2006 Enacted - 198.000M
• 2007 House 198.980M
• 2007 Senate - 198.980M

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FIRM Act continued

• 2007 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill,
  Senate Report
• The Committee is concerned the Flood Map
  Modernization Program is using data that is
  outdated and inaccurate to produce its maps. The
  Committee therefore directs FEMA to use newly
  collected elevation data produced by using the
  best available technologies being utilized by
  other Federal agencies, such as the National
  Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the
  National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and the
  Department of Defense. This should include
  consultation and coordination with, at a minimum,
  the U.S. Geological Survey and the Army Corps of
  Engineers.

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Master Address File/Topologically Integrated
Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER)

• MAF/TIGER funding has decreased
• 2005 Actual - 82.310M
• 2006 Enacted - 79.800M
• 2007 House 73.674M
• 2007 Senate N/A

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National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)

• NAIP funding has increased
• 2005 Actual 21.100M
• 2006 Enacted 24.000M
• 2007 House 24.000M
• 2007 Senate - 2.000M
• (imagery catalog repositories and data
  warehouses)
• (Committee recommends that funds be allocated to
  purchase high resolution satellite imagery data)

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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

• NGA funding is CLASSIFIED

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)

• Survey Backlog
• Mapping Charting
• Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC)
• Coastal Services Center (CSC)
• Shoreline Mapping

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NOAA continued

• Survey Backlog funding has increased
• 2005 Actual - 18.700M
• 2006 Enacted - 20.450M
• 2007 House - 29.000M
• 2007 Senate - 31.200M

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NOAA continued

• Mapping Charting funding has fluctuated
• 2005 Actual - 85.350M
• 2006 Enacted - 104.441M
• 2007 House 39.300M
• 2007 Senate - 43.718M

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NOAA continued

• Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) funding has
  increased
• 2005 Actual - 4.300M
• 2006 Enacted - 6.190M
• 2007 House N/A
• 2007 Senate - 6.000M

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NOAA continued

• Coastal Services Center (CSC) funding has
  decreased
• 2005 Actual - 26.614M
• 2006 Enacted - 23.000M
• 2007 House - 10.000M
• 2007 Senate - 19.458M

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NOAA continued

• Shoreline Mapping funding has decreased
• 2005 Actual - 2.413M
• 2006 Enacted N/A
• 2007 House N/A
• 2007 Senate - 2.400M

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United States Geological Survey (USGS)

• Cooperative Topographic Mapping (CTM) funding has
  decreased
• 2005 Actual - 71.393M
• 2006 Enacted - 68.855M
• 2007 House (transferred to Enterprise
  Information) - 67.326M
• 2007 Senate (transferred to Enterprise
  Information) - 64.301M

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LEGISLATION

• Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act
• Federal Prison Industries (FPI) Reform
• Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization (FIRM)
  Act
• Imagery, Mapping And Geospatial Enhancement
  (IMAGE) Act
• Pipeline Safety Reauthorization

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Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act

• Rep. Chris Cannon (UT) introduced the Federal
  Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act of 2005
  in March 2005
• H.R. 1370, has 30 cosponsors
• House Subcommittee hearing held on March 6, 2006

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FLAIR Act continued

• H.R. 1370 will create a multipurpose land
  information system and will eliminate the
  duplicative, inaccurate, out-of-date inventories
  the government now operates

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Federal Prison Industries (FPI) Reform continued

• Permitting prisoners access to data important to
  national security, or information about
  individual citizens property and assets via GIS
  CADD, is unwise
• MAPPS believes this is an inappropriate area for
  FPI activity, and questionable to the public
  interest as public health, welfare and safety are
  dependent on the quality of work performed by
  mapping professionals

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FPI Reform continued

• MAPPS co-leads a broad-based coalition to push
  for the Federal Prison Industries Competition in
  Contracting Act of 2005 sponsored by Congressman
  Peter Hoekstra (MI)
• H.R. 2965 passed House by 362-57 vote on
  September 14
• Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee
• S. 749 by Senators Carl Levin (MI) and Craig
  Thomas (WY) has 5 cosponsors

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Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization (FIRM)
Act

• FEMA is nearing the end of a 5 year, 1 billion
  map modernization program to update its flood
  maps
• MAPPS created a FEMA task force to explore a
  MAPPS proposal on flood mapping reform and
  improvement
• MAPPS worked with the Senate Banking Committee to
  include many of the MAPPS Task Forces
  recommendations

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FIRM Act continued

• S. 3589 (Sen. Shelby), unanimously approved by
  Senate Banking Committee, includes flood mapping
  reforms both beneficial to the public to MAPPS
  members
• - Extends coverage to 500-year floodplain
  including levees, other vulnerable areas
• - New ground elevation data using modern mapping
  engineering technologies on a watershed basis
  and published/modernized in digital format
• -TMAC is reestablished with 12 members, 1 private
  mapping 1 state GIS member will have a seat at
  the table
• Banking Committee Staff requested that MAPPS
  develop a study/report for annual benchmarks
  regarding realistic, attainable numbers

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Imagery, Mapping And Geospatial Enhancement
(IMAGE) Act

• S. 4006 by Sen. George Allen (VA)
• Rep. Curt Weldon (PA) will introduce companion
  legislation
• Office of Space Commercialization will be
  advocate and watchdog, on behalf of commercial
  geospatial community
• Lead implementation of policies in
• - 2004 NASA IG Report (House Science Committee)
• - 2003 CRSSP (White House)
• - 2002 Tenet Memo

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Pipeline Safety Reauthorization

• Senate Commerce Committee staff contacted MAPPS
  for guidance regarding the use of geospatial
  technology in pipeline safety
• The Senate will soon introduce a bill
• The House introduced, H.R. 5678 H.R. 5782, but
  these do not contain mapping/geospatial language

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Pipeline Safety Reauthorization

• MAPPS responded to the Senate Commerce Committee
• -By noting that for many years, there has
  been a concern in the community that the National
  Pipeline Mapping System does not have minimum
  technical requirements for the mapping a pipeline
  company submits to the USDOT
• -This was actually addressed in the Senate
  Commerce Committees report back in the late
  1980s, but never implemented by USDOT
• -We suggest the legislation establish the
  National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy
  (NSSDA) as a technical requirement for pipeline
  mapping
• -The NSSDA has been adopted by the Federal
  Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), which is the
  OMB-chartered Federal Committee on
  mapping-related activities

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POLICIES

• Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) FAA
• Department of Labor reclassification of
  Geospatial terminology
• Geospatial LoB
• Government Withholding Tax
• Unfair Government Competition
• USGS NGTOC
• USGS DHS Emergency Response

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Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) FAA

• MAPPS testified at a FAA hearing on January 18,
  based on Aerial Photo Committee input
• FAA issued a NOTAM on February 22 that reinstates
  mention of the waiver process
• This is a BIG victory for MAPPS!

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ADIZ FAA continued

• In the FAAs February 2006 Air Traffic Control
  bulletin the FAA published a 3-page highlight on
  Aerial Survey Flights
• This was an educational piece marketing the
  importance of aerial acquisition, photogrammetry,
  and proliferation of geographical information
  systems (GIS)
• MAPPS is referenced in the document

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DOL reclassification of Geospatial terminology

• MAPPS met with representatives of the Labor
  Department to discuss the use of the terms
  industry, information technology, and
  apprenticeship in describing the geospatial
  community
• MAPPS took issue with the use of terms
  industry, information technology, and
  apprenticeship and the resulting damage to
  MAPPS members from taxes, liability, procurement,
  etc.

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Geospatial terminology continued

• As a result of MAPPS strong and compelling case,
  the Department of Labor acknowledged they had
  relied too heavily on the user community for
  guidance and had neglected the producer
  community
• On July 6, 2006, the DoL contacted MAPPS to
  announce the revisions surrounding the use of
  industry and information technology
• These terms were removed from their internet site
  and future published documents will list the
  geospatial community as Geographic Information
  Systems Technology

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Geospatial LoB

• MAPPS was instrumental in starting this
  initiative by testifying twice before a House
  Government Reform Subcommittee
• GAO study conducted, based on request by Reps.
  Sessions and Putnam, drafted by MAPPS
• Presidents 2007 Budget contains LoBs including
  Geospatial
• Purpose establish a coordinated approach to
  producing, maintaining, and using geospatial data
  and services via efficiencies and standardization

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Geospatial LoB

• LoB announced March 2006
• MAPPS responded to RFI in May
• MAPPS takes issue with the FGDC Governance Model
• non-Federal stakeholders (MAPPS, NSGIC, etc.) not
  allowed on panel to implement key decisions.
• Non-Federal stakeholders will not be brought in
  until AFTER key decisions are finalized
• Data collected by OMB will NOT be released to the
  public

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USGS - NGTOC

• The Mid-Continent Mapping Center (MCMC) in Rolla,
  Missouri, was to be consolidated into a National
  Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) -
  closing 3 regional centers in Rolla, Menlo Park,
  and Reston and create the NGTOC in Denver
• According to the DOI IG, the site selection was
  supported by the whole of the record.' However,
  the IG found the USGS failed to effectively and
  transparently demonstrate the entirety of its
  criteria or communicate the magnitude of its
  rational.'

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USGS - NGTOC

• House will keep funding the Rolla operation, and
  will prevent any appropriation from closing Rolla
  and moving to Denver
• Senate will allow funding for the move as long as
  Rolla gets to take part in the A-76, and compete
  to keep it operations from moving to Denver, as a
  Federal Most Efficient Organization

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Whats Next?

• Based on the success of the FEMA Task Force,
  MAPPS President Kurt Allen is
• extending that task force
• appointing two new task forces, and
• seeking volunteers to serve on them

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FEMA Task Force

• Task Force developed sound, workable
  recommendations, many of which were included by
  the Senate in S. 3589, the Flood Insurance Reform
  and Modernization Act of 2006
• Congress will consider longer-term flood
  insurance reauthorization next year

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FEMA Task Force

• Task Force will be extended to develop long term
  recommendations for FEMA flood insurance program
  and draft legislation for introduction in
  Congress
• Goal will be to have long term recommendations to
  add to the flood insurance legislation, which is
  up for reauthorization in 2007

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Ocean Coastal Mapping

• NOAA has an Integrated Oceans and Coastal Mapping
  (IOCM) initiative that has not been well defined
  nor put into effective legislation
• NOAA funded NAS/NRC to write Digital Coast
  report (A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal
  Zone)
• S. 364, the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration
  Act does not sufficiently define a program

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Ocean Coastal Mapping

• Task Force will define an Integrated Oceans and
  Coastal Mapping (IOCM) Program and draft
  legislation for introduction in Congress
• Goal will be to have a IOCM title to add to the
  Hydrographic Services Improvement Act (HSIA),
  which is up for reauthorization in 2007

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Precision Agriculture

• The Farm Bill is up for reauthorization in 2007
• There is an opportunity to develop an integrated
  geospatial data program for USDA to utilize to
  assist farmers with production and conservation,
  as well as for USDA oversight, program management
  and enforcement

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Precision Agriculture

• Task Force will define an integrated geospatial
  data program for USDA draft legislation for
  introduction in Congress
• Goal will be to have a geospatial data program
  for precision agriculture provision to add to the
  Farm Bill, which is up for reauthorization in 2007

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

• DoD uses UAVs or drones for battlefield
  imagery, troop locations, and bombing raids
• Proliferation is underway in Federal agency
  demand for and use of UAVs in aerial imagery
  acquisition
• Federal investment in UAV development and
  deployment has resulted in agencies turning to
  UAVs for advanced imagery technology

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

• FAA regulations do not permit private, civilian
  sector or commercial operation of UAVs in the
  domestic United States. The FAA has recommended
  developing a plan to certify and regulate UAVs
• Questions for MAPPS membership
• MAPPS members? Non-MAPPS members? Govt
  competition? Airspace restrictions?

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Airports Reauthorization Bill

• What issues should MAPPS address
• Airspace?
• UAVs?
• NGS Airports Obstruction?
• Other?

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MAPPS et. al. V.United States of America

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STATUTES APPLYING BROOKS ACT TO SURVEYING AND
MAPPING

• 1988 Energy and Water Development Appropriations
  Act, Section 377(b)
• Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of
  1988, Pub. L. 100-656, 102 Stat. 3853, Section
  742
• Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act
  Amendments of 1988, Pub. L. 100-679, 102 Stat.
  4055, Section 8
• Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997,
  Pub. L. 104-208
• Department Of Defense Appropriations Act,
  1999Section 8101

• 1983 Supplemental Appropriations Act
• 1983 Competition in Contracting Act
• 1986 Superfund Amendments, Section 119(f)
• 1986 Water Resources Act, Section 918
• 1986 Defense Appropriations Act, Section 8087
• 1987 Defense Appropriations Act
• 1987 Highway Act, Section 111(2)(A)
• 1987 Airport and Airway Safety and Capacity
  Expansion Act, Section 109(g)

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• John Palatiello
• MAPPS
• 1760 Reston Parkway, Ste. 515
• Reston, Virginia 20190
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