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Today, the Land Board controls 3 million surface acres and over 4 million mineral e acres. It has implemented several new programs that tend to make management much more complex than in the past. hi addition to the traditional agricultural leases to farmers and ranchers the Land Board also does recreational leases, open space leases, and subdivision development leases. The minerals department leases for oil, gas, coal, sand and gravel, and hard-rock mining. The Land Board has about 20 FTEs in the Denver office, and also maintains 5 district offices with 1.5 FTEs in each of these. The overall operation centers around four functions: surface leasing, minerals leasing, accounting, and records archiving. The first three are actual management sections within the agency structure. The latter is a statutory duty, as the Land Board is a repository for state trust land records with original documents that date back to statehood in 1876. Specific Work Units Surface Doerations (15 FTEs). This section deals mostly with the 3,000 active agricultural leases. These are issued for ten-ye_ar terms, and are renewed and thoroughly reviewed every five years. Thus, on average there are approximately 600 surface leases processed each year. The process starts with the district office, and is completed in Denver. District office staff meet with the applicant; take the application or renewal notice; visit the site, make recommendations for renewal; and submit paperwork to Denver. Denver staff process the application; check and calculate new rates; and places the item on the agenda of a bi-monthly Board meeting. The Board hears the request to lease and renders a decision. Denver staff write and mail the actual lease; and collect fees and lease rentals during the term of the lease. e Specialty activities. Each district office devotes 0.5-1.0 FTE principally to these matters, and serves as liaison with the other surface FTEs on these subjects: 1. Water rights: mostly stock wells and irrigation wells on the agricultural lands. 2. Development properties: managing several urban office buildings that the Land Board owns. 3. Right of Way department: easements that allow utility companies to cross Land Board for pipelines, roads, telephone Jines, etc. 4. Land exchanges and sales: schedule and auction lands; exchange state lands with private and governmental parties. 5. Multiple Use: issuing recreational leases to private and governmental parties. 6. Appraisal: appraises and reviews appraisals of properties purchased or sold. e 74