PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide national, coordinated networks of horizontal and vertical reference monuments at various specified intervals which provide scale, orientation, coordinated positions, and elevations of specific points for use in surveying, boundary delineations and demarcation, mapping, planning, and development; to provide assistance to State, local, municipal, and regional agencies in the development and implementation of Multipurpose Land Information Systems (MPLIS)/Geographic Information Systems (GIS) pilot projects and geodetic reference network densification and/or enhancement, as requested, in support of the pilot projects.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Special Technical Service;
2. INFORMATION AND STATISTICS;
- General;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Federal;
- State;
- Local;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);