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PRELIMINARY PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN ANALYSIS OF FRPP DATA ON HISTORIC PROPERTIES
Eastern New Mexico University archaeology Field School, southeastern New Mexico (photo courtesy BLM)
The Federal Real Property Profile, managed by the Federal Real Property Council, houses information about the nature, use, and extent of the federal government’s real property assets. It contains data on all executive branch agency real property assets within and outside the United States, including improvements on federal land, except when otherwise required for reasons of national security, in accordance with EO 13327. An analysis of FRPP information should clarify the status of many federal historic properties, and to this end the ACHP requested access to information from the FRPP. Such access was supported by the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s 2013 Report Improved Data Needed to Strategically Manage Historic Buildings, Address Multiple Challenges, which recommended the ACHP’s access to this information and underscored the value it may present to efforts to better understand the progress agencies are making in identifying, using, and protecting historic properties under their ownership and control. The ACHP’s access was also supported by FRPP staff, at GSA, and by the FRPC member agencies, which promptly responded to the ACHP’s request for data from FY14, FY15, and FY16. For security reasons, FRPP data must be requested directly from DoD; the ACHP did so, but DoD was not able to provide the requested information. DoD assets comprise about half of those in the FRPP. In order to identify broad patterns and trends in managing historic assets, the ACHP analyzed six departments with inventories of greater than 10,000 real property assets: Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Homeland Security, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs. These departments represent a combined average of approximately 256,000 records per year, or 85 percent of the average 310,000 records provided per year. The following preliminary conclusions are based on ACHP staff analysis of available data:
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