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IDENTIFYING HISTORIC PROPERTIES 2014-2017
Tennessee Valley Authority and tribal archaeologists conducting research at Hiawassee Island archaeological site, on the Tennessee River in east Tennessee (photo courtesy TVA)
For this report, federal agencies were asked to share with the ACHP and Secretary of the Interior information about their efforts to identify historic properties for the period from 2014 through 2017, including progress since the last report, how their identification methods have changed, and how they manage and use their databases. OVERVIEW: The ACHP believes an accurate, up-to-date inventory of an agency’s historic properties, and the steps taken to increase and refine it, is a requisite for determining management priorities for those properties. Only with an understanding of their historic properties—the historical, economic, and educational values they embody and the agency resources needed and realistically available to care for them—can agencies begin to develop management priorities for their future. Federal agency progress on identifying historic properties: Between 2014 and 2017 most responding federal agencies continued to make progress in identifying historic properties under their ownership. Some smaller agencies reported no change in their inventory of historic properties under their ownership, while other small agencies carried out surveys that identified new historic properties. As one would expect, the nature of the agency (e.g., primarily land-managing agencies or building-managing agencies, large agencies or small) influenced the kinds of historic properties identified, and the intensity of that identification effort.
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