General Land Office 1836: Republic of Texas Congress formed the General Land Office to manage the public domain Charge: Collect and keep records, provide maps and surveys, and issue titles to encourage settlement of public lands via land grants Permanent School Fund (PSF): The Texas Constitution of 1876 set aside half of Texas' remaining public lands to establish to help finance public schools. Today: The Texas General Land Office is focused on maximizing and diversifying revenue sources for the Permanent School Fund—through oil & gas exploration on historic leases, as well as wind, solar, and geothermal energy. Future: With over 175 years of history, the Texas General Land Office is moving into the future and finding new and innovative ways to serve the people of Texas.
Agency Mission The Texas General Land Office primarily serves the schoolchildren, veterans, and the environment of Texas. The agency does so by preserving our history, maximizing state revenue through innovative administration, and through the prudent stewardship of state lands and natural resources.
Functions of the GLO The Texas General Land Office is the state’s oldest agency, established in the Republic of Texas constitution in 1836. The Land Office was established to oversee the distribution of public lands, to register titles, issue patents on land and maintain records of land granted. Since then, the agency’s responsibilities have grown and diversified, and now include: • Maximizing revenues from 13 million surface and mineral acres of state- owned land for the Permanent School Fund; • Auditing oil, gas and hard mineral leases on state lands to ensure payment of royalties to the Permanent School Fund; • Unifying state acreage into more manageable tracts by analyzing acreage and coordinating land trades and sales; • Conducting ground and aerial surveys of state-owned land; • Leasing state lands for renewable energy projects; • Identifying underused state properties and recommending uses for them; • Funding low-cost home, land and home improvement loans for Texas veterans; • Providing long-term care nursing homes for Texas veterans, their spouses and Gold Star parents; • Overseeing state veterans cemeteries for Texas veterans and their spouses; • Preserving the memories of Texas veterans through the Voices of Veterans oral history program; • Archiving more than 35 million historical land documents; • Digitizing historical land documents and making them available over the Internet; • Managing the Save Texas History program to conserve our historic documents ― buy maps, calendars and educational CDs at www.savetexashistory.org; • Preventing oil spills and ensuring cleanup of oil spills in state waters; • Providing free disposal of oily bilge water along the Texas coast; • Inspecting coastal refineries and fishing vessels to prevent oil spills; • Reversing coastal erosion through beach renourishment projects; • Protecting coastal dunes that alleviate storm surge impacts; • Helping coastal communities prepare for and recover from tropical storms; • Managing the Adopt-A-Beach cleanup program to keep our coast free of trash and debris ― do your part to help keep our beaches clean at www.texasadoptabeach.org; • Enforcing the Texas open beaches act on behalf of all Texans
GIS Team Mission The Geographic Information Systems team provides geospatial tools, data, and analyses to GLO staff, other state and federal agencies, local governments, project partners, and the general public. We strive to understand the technology, set the standard for GIS in the state, and advance geospatial information technologies to further the agency mission.
Geographic Information Systems The job of the GIS team at the Land Office is to understand the technology and provide tools and data to General Land Office staff, other state and federal agencies, local governments, project partners, and the general public. With 100+ years combined experience in GIS, we regularly utilize geographic data, including features, maps, coordinates, tabular data, aerial imagery, and elevation data, to analyze situations on the ground to enable management to make more informed decisions and for GLO staff to perform their jobs more effectively. Critical functions of the GIS team include: • Research and develop geospatial data • Maintain and administer all GIS data layers for the agency • Incorporate geospatial data from other sources and create new data as required • Create custom map products, both paper and online • Provide mobile data collection solutions for staff in the field • Develop, manage, and administer GISWeb and all online map viewers • Manage and administer all GIS Servers • Develop and manage Web pages for GIS • Process and manage all aerial photography, digital imagery, elevation data, and other remotely acquired geospatial data • Develop and maintain GIS databases • Provide GIS services for the Commissioner's Office, Coastal Resources, Oil Spill, Energy Resources, Office of General Counsel, Asset Management, Construction Services, Governmental Relations, Archives & Records, Veterans Land Board, and others
Texas General Land Office Oil Spill Prevention and Response Readiness Steven Buschang, State Scientific Support Coordinator/Director of Research and Development Alternate RRT VI, Science and Tech Committee Chair Texas General Land Office
OPA ’90 / OSPRA ’91 The Oil Pollution Act (OPA 90), Exxon Valdez incident March 28, 1991 Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act (OSPRA 91) TGLO became the lead state agency in preventing, and responding to, coastal and marine oil spills 3 marine leagues (9 nm/10.36 statute miles) offshore Tidally- influenced waters, rivers, and bays of Texas Mouth of the Rio Grande River to the Sabine River
Five Field Offices Strategically located along the Texas Coast , allowing for two hour response time to all oil spill reported. Field personnel conduct -Facility Audits -Facility Inspections -Boat & Vehicle Patrols -Design and participate in oil spill response exercises
Prepare, Prevent, Respond •Established a 24-hour 1-800-832-8224 state-wide •reporting line for all discharges or releases in Texas. •Over 4000 calls are received per year •GLO responders go to the scene of all reported oil spills that enter or threaten to enter Texas coastal waters •Coastal Protection Fund 20M Texas has some 367 miles of linear shoreline and miles of 3359 tidal shoreline 1.2 billion barrels of oil passing near Texas wetlands, bays and beaches along the Texas Gulf Coast each year
1994, the Texas General Land Office (TGLO) contracted the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) of Texas A&M University (TAMU) to develop the Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS). Remote Sensing & Modeling
“An environmental sensitivity index map is a diagram that provides a concise summary of coastal resources that could be at risk in the event of an oil spill”. NOAA ESI Mapping Human-Use Resources Resources and places important to humans and sensitive to oiling (public beaches and parks, marine sanctuaries, water intakes, and archaeological sites). Biological Resources Oil-sensitive animals, as well as habitats that either (a) are used by oil-sensitive animals, or (b) are themselves sensitive to spilled oil (e.g., black mangrove ). Shoreline Rankings Shorelines are ranked according to their sensitivity, the natural persistence of oil, and the expected ease of cleanup. includes Habitat Priority Protection Areas.
Aerial Location Type Platform Possible Responsible Party Storm Damage Present Unknown Current Damage Present Unknown Structure Type Field ID Platform Field Inspector ddavis Inspection Date April 4, 2016 Inspection Comments MU 818-L-B: Appears in disrepair, 8 pile, no crew lines, ladders in disrepair, helo pad unusable, appears in unused Field Inspection Completed Yes Field Analysis Appear Operational No Appear Derelict Unknown ID Information Available No Safety Lighting Operational None seen Horns Operational No Storage Tank Present No Manager Analysis OSI ID Number 3730 Tract Number 818 Control Number 03-008131 Waterbody Gulf of Mexico Waterbody Abbrev GOM Waterbody Tract GOM-818 Site ID GOM-818-3730 API Number RRC Number Offshore Structures Inventory: GOM-818-3730 Offshore Structure Inventory Database
Offshore Structures Inventory: GOM-818-3727 Aerial Location Type Well Possible Responsible Party SAMEDAN OIL Storm Damage Present Unknown Current Damage Present Unknown Structure Type Field ID Platform Field Inspector ddavis Inspection Date April 4, 2016 Inspection Comments PHOC-MU 818-L-A: Looks in unused condition , 4 pile, ladder in disrepair, crew boat landing in disrepair, no crew lines Field Inspection Completed Yes Field Analysis Appear Operational No Appear Derelict Unknown ID Information Available Yes Safety Lighting Operational Unknown Horns Operational Unknown Storage Tank Present Yes Manager Analysis OSI ID Number 3727 Tract Number 818 Control Number 03-008131 Waterbody Gulf of Mexico Waterbody Abbrev GOM Waterbody Tract GOM-818 Site ID GOM-818-3727 API Number RRC Number
LiDAR image showing small scale elevation changes of a bird rookery island. Colonial Waterbird Rookery Island Geoenvironmental Mapping for Oil Spill Response. LIDaR Project
Thank You Steven Buschang, State Scientific Support Coordinator - Director of Research and Development Contact Info: [email protected] 512-475-4611 Texas General Land Office
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