OMB & BLM have pushed to eliminate the requirement for BLM to survey Native (State) lands prior to conveyance.  The cost would shift from the Feds to land owners. Congress mandated in ANCSA 13(a) that BLM survey the exterior boundaries of ANCSA lands and State lands so they receive Patent to surveyed land.  BLM regs & policy change, but only Congress can amend Federal law. Kornze said "If someone else wants to know how we can save $3 million a year and continue improving the quality of work we're doing, I'm all ears." Contracting State surveys to private firms instead of BLM doing the work in house will realize much of that cost savings. Private survey contractors and BLM surveyors use GPS for most of the surveying; cutting the cost of the work in half. But the final results, physical monuments in the ground at reasonable intervals and density has not changed.  Using BLM’s new DPPS the bulk of the corner markers and traditional record systems disappear.  We don't want "Virtual Survey"