Engineering & Real Estate Operations - As Built Road Reporting

Annual Reporting Requirements, Section 86, Forest Planning and Practices Regulation - As-Built Road Reporting
The As-Built Road Reporting requirements of the FPPR, Section 86, Annual Reporting are in keeping with the results based approach of the Forest and Range Practice Act. Road construction is authorized by the ministry and forest licensees build and maintain roads. The as-built road reporting serves to provide government with where permanent access structures are constructed on the Crown land base. Additionally, the required annual reporting of deactivation of roads indicates treatment of roads which would no longer be considered road access on the crown land base.

Having the as-built roads submitted through electronic means is part of a government initiative to improve service delivery through the use of electronic business mediums. One of the goals is to decrease costs to industry as well as government with the objective of having each piece of information submitted once even though it may be used for a number of purposes. The electronic contents of the report and the schema developed to capture those contents were arrived at through a consultative process between ministry and industry staff.

Further, the as-built road electronic submission initiative is also linked to the government initiative to have a complete and accurate road network of all the roads in British Columbia. The ABR submission data is being used to update the TRIM maps maintained by the Integrated Land Management Bureau as well as the ministry’s Forest Road Management Application (FRMA). The electronically submitted roads will be reflected within the Digital Road Atlas which is being developed and populated in order to support a wide range of business applications.