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Training

The Land Acquisition Section (LAS) provides federal agencies with both training and early advice during the planning process for major federal acquisition projects. These efforts have borne fruit in improving the government’s position in a number of high-profile matters, including border security infrastructure; military training facilities; transmission line projects; expansion of national parks, forests and environmental buffer lands; veterans’ facilities; the strategic petroleum reserve; and the General Services Administration leasehold portfolio. It is normal for training and advisement to begin many years in advance of property acquisitions for complex title, appraisal, and acquisition issues. Hundreds of federal employees receive training or consult with LAS on complex issues each year. In recent years, LAS has provided training on title, valuation, condemnation, and other real property acquisition matters to:

  1. Over 80 attorneys from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Office of Chief Counsel and Districts across the country, in St. Louis, MO (May 2023).
  2. Over 40 attorneys from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in DC (April 2023).
  3. Over 70 real estate contracting officers and attorneys from the FAA and its Office of Chief Counsel in DC (March 2023).
  4. Over 80 appraisers from the U.S. Forest Service at its All-Appraisers’ Meeting in San Diego, CA (March 2023).
  5. Over 30 staff from the U.S. Air Force and the USACE, for the Air Force’s Sentinel Missile Project in DC (February 2023).
  6. Over 30 attorneys in the FAA, Acquisition and Fiscal Law Division, in DC (January 2023).
  7. Over 200 employees from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of General Counsel, U.S. Forest Service, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service in DC (October 2022).
  8. Over 30 realty specialists, surveyors, appraisers for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Realty Academy at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV (July 2022).
  9. Over 20 staff from the Air Force in DC (June 2022).