Part A: Integrated Land Management Bureau

Core Business Areas

To achieve its goals and objectives, the Bureau provides services through five core business areas.

1. Regional Client Services

The Bureau provides clients throughout B.C.'s eight major geographic regions with coordinated information and access to provincial natural resources on behalf of a number of provincial ministries and agencies. It does this through four broad but integrated approaches, including:

  • providing technically knowledgeable staff, through FrontCounter BC, to assist clients with, and accept applications for, land and resource-use authorizations, and monitoring and facilitating efficient, timely processing of applications;
  • making decisions on tenures and sales of Crown land under the Land Act on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands;7
  • providing land and resource information and analytical services to internal and external clients; and
  • developing landscape-level land and resource-use plans and facilitating implementation of strategic land-use plans to support the sustainable economic development of provincial natural resources.

This core business area is coordinated and delivered by the Bureau with input from regionally-based Inter-Agency Management Committees or sub-regional managers committees, chaired and managed by senior regional Bureau staff.

(192 FTEs, net operating budget $23.4 million)
7  96 FTEs are temporarily assigned to the Bureau from Crown Land Administration in the Ministry Operations Vote for Land Act adjudication purposes, and $8.4 million is recovered by the Bureau from the Ministry for this purpose. These FTEs are shown in the Ministry’s resource table in Part B of this document.

2. Strategic Land and Resource Planning

The Bureau focuses on high-priority strategic land and resource management planning. Four main functions are involved, each of which incorporates and supports the New Relationship with First Nations, including:

  • finalizing strategic land and resource plans for government decision, an outcome of concluding government-to-government negotiations with First Nations;
  • reviewing and amending strategic land and resource plans, where partner agencies have agreed that the work is a priority and resources are available to address the task or government has directed that the work be undertaken to address new issues or environmental factors (e.g., the impacts of the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic);
  • undertaking related strategic plan implementation projects at the request of government; and
  • leading marine coastal planning in B.C.

(13 FTEs, net operating budget $7.5 million)

3. Species-at-Risk Coordination

The Species-at-Risk Coordination Office works with other agencies to manage the province's globally significant, broad-ranging species-at-risk and provides responsible, balanced access to Crown land and resources.8 The Bureau coordinates corporate development and implementation of recovery plans for three priority species: Mountain Caribou, Northern Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet.

(5 FTEs, net operating budget $0.8 million)

4. Corporate Resource Information Management

Through this core business, the Bureau captures, integrates, manages and warehouses provincial land and resource information, and delivers this information to government and non-government clients using a variety of means, including web-based tools.

These functions are provided through the Chief Resource Information Office for natural resource ministries as a single-window access to land and resource information (Land and Resource Data Warehouse,9 Integrated Land and Resource Registry,10 GIS analysis services and the Integrated Cadastral Initiative11). The Bureau is also the provincial government agency accountable for providing spatial base mapping,12 land survey control, global-positioning quality control systems and air and ortho-photo management to a wide range of internal and external users of landscape information across all sectors.

(134 FTEs, net operating budget $16.5 million)
8  The management of species-at-risk is traditionally a Ministry of Environment-led function as the vast majority of the science-supporting implementation tasks and actions to address species-at-risk are accomplished cooperatively with leadership from that Ministry. However, government has recognized that actions and resources required to address broad-ranging species-at-risk need to be coordinated and corporate in nature. The Bureau has been given a mandate to develop recovery plans for broad-ranging species-at-risk on behalf of the partner agencies to which it provides service.
9  The Land and Resource Data Warehouse is the corporate repository for integrated land, resource and geographic data that support a variety of business requirements for the natural resource sector, other government agencies, industry and the public.
10  The Integrated Land and Resource Registry is a web-based query and access tool that provides an integrated view of over 250 different legal land and resource tenures, licences and leases on Crown land.
11  Includes the Integrated Cadastral Fabric, the result of a partnership between the provincial government and local government that provides an integrated and geo-referenced link between privately-owned property and Crown land.
12  Base mapping services provide critical map data utilized by all sectors of the economy, including mining, oil and gas exploration, forestry, utilities and transportation. It is a critical foundation geographic tool that is essential for resource management, other provincial government services such as emergency response, community planning and development, and First Nations treaty development.

5. Bureau Management

This business unit includes the Office of the Associate Deputy Minister and a portion of Corporate Services Division (finance, facilities, etc.). The latter is a shared service and also serves the Ministries of Agriculture and Lands, and Environment. The Bureau Management unit includes the Project Management Office, a small team of headquarters-based Bureau staff who provide project management services, corporate project management, strategic business planning, website oversight, performance monitoring and issues management.

(19 FTEs,13 net operating budget $14.1 million)

The Information Resource Management Plan was developed through the Bureau Management core business area. The information management and information technology direction and strategies contained in the plan support all Bureau core businesses. The overview can be viewed at:
http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/relatedinitiativesandplanningprocesses/overview.html.

For more information about the Bureau, its mandate and services, please see:
http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca.
13  This does not include the FTEs in Corporate Services Division servicing the Bureau. These are shown under the Ministry of Environment service plan. However, the operating budget for Corporate Services Division support of the Bureau is shown here.
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