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BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION
Fort Hancock Homes, Gateway National Recreation Area, New Jersey (Andrew Kazmierski Fotolia)
This is the fifth triennial report on the status of federal property-owning agencies’ progress in identifying, protecting, and using their historic properties. These progress reports are required under Section 3 of EO 13287, “Preserve America,” signed by President George W. Bush in 2003. The ACHP and the Secretary of the Interior review and analyze the information submitted and present their findings to the President by February 15, 2018. The ACHP is an independent federal agency that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and sustainable use of the nation’s diverse historic resources and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy. The ACHP also oversees implementation of Section 3 of the EO. The full text of the “Preserve America” EO can be found here: http:// www.preserveamerica.gov/Executive%20Order%2013287.pdf. The membership of the ACHP can be found here: http://www.achp.gov/members.html. The federal government is the steward of thousands of historic properties of all kinds across the country and in all its territories—these include buildings, structures, traditional landscapes of religious and cultural significance to Indian tribes and Native Hawai’ian organizations (NHOs), archaeological sites and districts, scientific and highly technical properties and objects, and others. This EO focuses on reinforcing the preservation stewardship responsibilities of federal agencies, which began with the Antiquities Act of 1906, was expanded in the Historic Sites Act of 1935, was reinforced in 1966 in the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), specifically in Sections 1, 2, and 110, and by subsequent amendments to the NHPA.
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