In carrying out their agencies’ often multiple missions—energy development and distribution, national defense, economic development, and recreation, to name a few—responders say when implemented as intended, their internal historic preservation policies and the attendant procedures to implement them are effective in ensuring project reviews are completed in a timely manner avoiding delays, and ensuring historic preservation is substantively considered. However, one sticking point is that, based on ACHP experience and Section 3 reporting, some federal agencies’ policies and procedures for identification are only starting to keep up with current property conceptions and thinking in historic preservation, especially in terms of early consultation with Indian tribes and NHOs, identifying and addressing effects to traditional cultural places (TCPs) and cultural landscapes, and in consideration of modernist buildings as potentially significant and worthy of consideration. The larger agencies like BLM, TVA, and GSA are on the forefront of these changing mores and practices. Budgeting for historic property identification: While some agencies (e.g., GSA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], TVA) reported that they budget expressly for Section 110 surveys, the ACHP continues to see the vast majority of federal historic property identification occurring within the context of the Section 106 process. This is reactive and not proactive, and can lead to unnecessary delays in project review and in allocating scarce resources for property stewardship. While many federal agencies recognize this, and are trying to refocus efforts to support Section 110 surveys
The “Section 110” requirement for survey of historic properties on federal property is in the NHPA: Each Federal agency shall establish a preservation program.The program shall ensure that historic property under the jurisdiction or control of the agency is identified, evaluated, and nominated to the NRHP. 54 U.S.C. § 306102(a) - (b)(1).
USACE Mobile District developed a new tool “RECENTPAST” to assist with management and protection of sites on USACE project lands.This tool consists of digital maps showing culturally sensitive areas overlaid with areas where the District is planning water and land management activities.
The Department of the Air Force implemented standardized and electronic Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) templates in 2015 and requires all existing and newly developed ICRMPs to utilize the template.This standardization of ICRMPs allows quick review by base, installation support teams, and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center which (1) reduces data call time and energy, (2) allows in-house updates, (3) allows intra-service sharing of lessons learned; and (4) creates a more uniform set of standard operating procedures.
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