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The Integrated Land Management Bureau

ILMB's mandate is to provide British Columbians with access to integrated Crown land and resource authorizations, planning dispositions and resource information services. Many of these services are provided to, or on behalf of provincial natural resource and economy ministries.

Our Vision: Delivering corporate solutions through collaboration.

Our Mission: Deliver leading edge, timely, client-friendly and responsive integrated natural resource information and services that support a vibrant B.C. economy, healthy communities and a sustainable environment.

Values:

  • professionalism and courtesy
  • innovative and creative – challenge the status quo
  • accountability and transparency
  • responsibility and reliability
  • timely service delivery
  • demonstrated excellence in communication, facilitation and mediation

ILMB's main shared-services clients include:

What do we do?

ILMB is responsible for integrating, managing and delivering a range of critical services to the province's private, corporate and public citizens. Below is a brief description of these services. For more information, please see our 2010/11 - 2012/13 Service Plan at http://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2010/sp/pdf/ministry/for.pdf.

First Nations Initiatives

  • Supports an enhanced relationship with First Nations which will lead to improved business practices and increased understanding and consideration of their interests by provincial resource agencies. Also supports both a coordinated approach to engaging First Nations on natural resource issues and the pursuit of related strategic agreements.

Regional Client Services

  • FrontCounter BC - eight locations throughout the province - delivers a wide range of natural resource access and use permits on behalf of our client agencies. This one window approach to application referrals, adjudication, and other Crown land and resource services won the Premier's Award for Cross Government Integration in 2005/06!
  • Adjudicates Crown land tenures, Crown land partnership and sales, and planning at the strategic level to promote sustainable use of Crown land and resources.

GeoBC

  • Integrates, manages and delivers provincial land and resource information on behalf of our client agencies to public, corporate and private citizens.

Business Innovation Office

  • Supports ILMB's project planning through a centralized project management function and provides corporate guidance on the achievement of ILMB's strategic goals.

Who is our Minister?

Honourable Pat Bell, Minister of Forests and Range and Minister Responsible for the Integrated Land Management Bureau, has ministerial accountability for delivering ILMB's mandate and for ensuring that British Columbians receive maximum value for Crown resources within the government's social and environmental frameworks.

How do we operate?

For ILMB to operate effectively, we must collaborate and share information with our client agencies in a variety of formal and informal ways. The committee structure that supports our work is vital to our success:

  • Integrated Land Management Bureau Board of Directors oversees ILMB's key accountabilities and deliverables and makes recommendations with respect to corporate priorities.
  • Assistant Deputy Ministers' Committee for Integrated Land Management oversees the effective provision of services from ILMB to its client agencies.
  • 3 Inter-Agency Management Committees (Coast: in Nanaimo; Southern Interior: in Kamloops; Northern Interior: in Prince George) coordinate the delivery of cross-government initiatives at the regional level.




 

 

1-877-855-3222
(North America Toll Free) 

Outside North America, please call ++1-604-586-4400

FrontCounter BC is a one stop service for clients of provincial natural resource ministries and agencies.  Staff can help you with the licenses and permits you need to start or expand a business related to mining, forestry, agriculture, water, land, aquaculture and many others.

Virtual FrontCounter BC gives clients the ability to apply on-line for authorizations. You can update the application you are working on, attach maps and documents to your application, submit and pay for your application and track your online applications.

Contact FrontCounter BC

 

GeoBC integrates, manages and delivers provincial geographic information to governments, businesses, and citizens

GeoBC’s products and services enable citizens, clients and partners to discover, view, download, analyze, integrate and create geographic data to support their business activities.The Gateway proivdes a window to data and information sources managed by various ministries and agencies in the natural resource sector.

GeoBC Gateway

The allocation and management of Crown land and coastal marine resources plays a key role in expanding and diversifying the economy, sustaining environmental values, and promoting the health and well-being of all British Columbians.

ILMB administers, allocates, adjudicates, documents and manages Crown land tenures for a number of land programs. As well, ILMB is responsible for promoting adventure tourism, coordinating permitting processes for clean energy projects, creating opportunities to develop and market some Crown land parcels, and developing and implementing land and coastal marine plans and agreements.

Click here for more information on Crown Land Management

In 2008, the BC Government committed to improving consultation and respectful engagement with First Nations.   Benefits of this work—to government, First Nations, proponents, and the public—include enhancing meaningful government-to-government relations with First Nations, creating a positive investment climate by providing certainty and predictability, and reducing the heavy consultation workload for all parties.

The First Nations Initiatives Division (FNID), a division of the Integrated Land Management Bureau, is leading a shift in business to the “Virtual integration” of aboriginal relations.  Virtual Integration is a government initiative to implement common, policies, procedures and tools across all the natural resource agencies.  FNID works with all Natural Resource Agencies to deliver Virtual Integration through two main business lines:

  1. Coordinating interagency consultation with First Nations, comprising i) an aligned policy framework, ii) regional economic development priority setting, including shared business planning and resource sharing, and iii) coordinating multi-authorization project consultation. 
  2. Negotiating strategic agreements with First Nations that will improve the Province’s investment climate, reduce the consultation volume for all parties, create enduring forums for government-to-government engagement and achieve the goals of the Transformative Change Accord.
    http://www.newrelationship.gov.bc.ca/agreements_and_leg/trans_change_accord.html