The Business Leasing Program collects revenue from business leases, billboard leases, gas storage units and land sales; acquires new assets by exchanging lands with local, state and federal governments, industrial and commercial developers, and private landowners; and advances the trust's community and business development portfolio. The leasing program manages 799 active commercial leases across more than 471,000 acres of trust lands, and in fiscal year 2011 generated $3.3 million for the trust beneficiaries.
The Commissioner of Public Lands issued a Moratorium on Planning & Development Leases in January 2011.