Arizona State Land Department

The Arizona State Land Department manages an estimated 9.2 million acres of state trust land on behalf of several beneficiaries. The Department should improve its comprehensive state trust land selling and leasing process by establishing time frames or ranges for the steps in this process, providing site study information on its Web site as soon as possible, and increasing the number of appraisers on the state-wide contract. The Department should also do more to protect and manage state trust lands by strengthening lease provisions, and by prioritizing and documenting land inspections.