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Committee backs bill updating North Dakota state plane coordinate systems to modern reference frame
Summary
The House Agriculture Committee voted to give Senate Bill 2,260 a due-pass recommendation after hearing technical testimony that the bill would codify updated state plane coordinate systems aligned with the North American Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2022.
The House Agriculture Committee voted to give Senate Bill 2,260 a due-pass recommendation after hearing technical testimony that the bill would codify updated state plane coordinate systems aligned with the North American Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2022.
The bill, sponsored in the Senate by state Sen. Randy Burkhart, would add statutory references to new state plane coordinate systems prepared by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and adopted in draft for use by North Dakota surveying, mapping and engineering professionals.
The bill matters to counties, surveyors and engineering firms because state plane coordinates are the base reference used to map property, infrastructure and…
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