NPS archaeologists care for more than 80,000 archaeological sites that have been identified in national parks. At the end of FY 2017, 80,911 known archaeological sites were located within national parks. Inventory and evaluation of sites is ongoing.
In 2015,TVA evaluated the NRHP eligibility of TVA’s hydroelectric system.TVA’s dams and associated structures were found to be historically significant at the national, state, and local levels due to their association with broad patterns of history and engineering and architectural importance.The Keeper of the NRHP accepted TVA’s Multiple Property Documentation Form, along with the individual nominations of its Norris,Wheeler, and Guntersville Hydroelectric facilities.Twenty-two additional facilities were listed in the NRHP in 2017, so that today, all of the major hydro facilities that TVA constructed are now recognized by the NRHP.
Federal agency policies and procedures to identify historic properties: Federal agencies have a variety of policies and procedures to identify their historic properties. These are derived from statutes both specific (e.g., Sections 1, 106, and 110 of the NHPA; Archeological Resources Protection Act) and general (Federal Lands Policy Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA], etc.), from Executive Orders (e.g., President Bush’s EO 13327, Federal Real Property Asset Management, 2004) to internal department and agency policy and requirements that implement these statutes and EOs. Most land-managing agencies who reported this cycle describe their internal agency management guidance as their “prime directive.” In some cases, this guidance is based on a Programmatic Agreement that is often national in scope—the BLM and NPS Nationwide Agreements, for example. Agency practices provide a framework for carrying out historic property identification and stewardship in the context of multi-use missions—often encompassing recreation, resource sustainability, economic development, and energy development. Procedures for reviewing project plans for their possible effects on historic properties are laid out within these policies and procedures (as well as procedures for compliance with other preservation laws, like the Archaeological Resources Protection Act [ARPA] and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act [NAGPRA]). Federal agencies that primarily manage buildings and structures also have internal preservation directives. DHS’s Directive 017-01, Historic Preservation in Asset Management and Operations and Accompanying Instruction Guide to the Historic Preservation in Asset Management Operations, applies to all its component agencies, while these agencies: FEMA, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), US Coast Guard (USCG) also have their individual policies tailored to their specific missions and historic resources. It should also be noted that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) recently issued historic guidelines in its Facilities Operational manual in July 2017. DoD does not have any specific preservation directives; the only cultural resources directive is general DoD instruction 4715.16 “Cultural Resources Management” (issued 2008).
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