Department of the Interior
Departmental Manual
Effective Date: 8/29/06
Series: Organization
Part 130: Bureau
of Indian Affairs
Chapter 7: Office
of the Deputy Director - Trust Services
Originating Office: Office of the Assistant Secretary - Indian
Affairs
130 DM 7
7.1 Office of the
Deputy Director - Trust Services.
The Deputy Director - Trust Services, reports to the Director of the
Bureau. The Deputy Director is
responsible for all headquarters activities associated with management and
protection of trust and restricted lands, real estate services and natural
resources, forestry/wildland fire (excluding energy and mineral resources, and
environmental/cultural resources).
7.2 Responsibilities. The Deputy Director - Trust Services, is
responsible for managing the Bureau’s natural resources programs; Safety of
Dams program; irrigation and power systems; realty; probate operations;
forestry; wildland fire; and oversight of
Land Title Record Centers.
7.3 Organization. The Deputy Director - Trust Services, carries
out the mission and functions of the office with assistance from the following:
A. Division of Real Estate Services. The division provides assistance, advice,
policy, oversight, monitoring, and coordination for the protection, management,
planning, conservation, development, and utilization of trust and restricted
Federal Indian-owned lands that include acquisition, disposal, tenure,
rights-of-way, permits, leasing, and sales.
The division manages the Bureau’s program to accept real estate on
behalf of tribes under the Base Realignment and Closure Act and similar
programs. The division manages the
Cadastral Survey program for the determination of legal boundaries on Indian
land.
B. Division of Land Titles and Records. The division oversees policy development,
deployment, and implementation of the title portion of the trust asset and
accounting system, and oversees the administration and maintenance of title
documents, document certification, title research and examination, and the determination
of legal title for Federal Indian trust or restricted lands.
C. Division of Probate. The division provides functional control,
assistance, policy development coordination for probate programs, and monitors
and evaluates probate operations. The
division exercises program oversight and provides planning and scheduling of
Bureau probate and assisted activities.
The division coordinates the implementation of the Bureau's policies and
procedures, to ensure that the probate initiatives meet the Secretary's
fiduciary responsibilities and improves efficiency of services to tribes and
individual Indians. The division is
responsible for developing action plans and systems for probate programs and
for developing and implementing improvements to the probate process. The division is responsible for management
and implementation of probate-related outsourcing efforts and coordinates
associated operations with other trust reform activities and other Departmental
initiatives.
D. Division
of Natural Resources. The division
provides coordination, management, planning, oversight, and monitoring for
development and protection of trust natural resources, protection of Indian
water rights, water development projects, litigation support, attorneys fees, and
fish and wildlife resources. The
Bureau’s responsibilities under the Federal Power Act in re-licensing
hydro-power projects that affect Indian trust resources are carried out in this
division. The division provides
direction and guidance for all activities related to the planning, management,
conservation, development, and utilization of soil, water, farmland, rangeland,
fish and wildlife resources, and endangered species. The division is responsible for the Bureau’s
natural resource damage assessment and restoration program.
E. Division of Forestry and Wildland Fire
Management. The division is
responsible for providing coordination, management, planning, oversight, and
monitoring for activities related to development, enhancement and protection of
trust forest resources including the National Wildland Fire Program. The division exercises program oversight and
provides planning and scheduling of Bureau-wide forestry activities at the
national level to ensure that regulatory and policy requirements are followed
and that technical standards of sound forest management are upheld. The division has staff in
F. Division of Irrigation, Power, and Safety of Dams. The
division is responsible for irrigation construction, dam rehabilitation and the
operation and maintenance of dams, irrigation, and power projects. The scope of responsibilities include,
engineering management, operations and maintenance involving over 100 dams,
numerous large irrigation projects, more than 100 irrigation systems and
several large revenue generating power operations. The division is also responsible for flood
plain management. This division is
resource utilization oriented and functions as an engineering management and
oversight operation.
The Safety of Dams Program prepares capital asset plans for the
major rehabilitation projects in accordance with the Capital Planning and
Investment Control process. The Safety
of Dams Program, irrigation, and power programs report construction-in-progress
to Bureau management officials, and conduct condition assessments to quantify
the deferred maintenance backlog for budget justifications and reporting
purposes.
Replaces
3/1/05 #3669