Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

About the ACHP fact sheet in Spanish

A key responsibility of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is to administer the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), a review process that ensures historic properties are considered during the development of any federal project. The ACHP’s Office of Federal Agency Programs (OFAP) coordinates this responsibility.

Office of Federal Agency Programs fact sheet in Spanish

The Office of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples (OTIP) works with federal agencies, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian Organizations to address critical consultation issues.

An important part of the ACHP mission statement is to advise the President and Congress on historic preservation matters.

By law, members of the public have a voice when federal actions will affect properties that qualify for the National Register of Historic Places, the nation's official list of historic properties.

Las reglamentaciones dictadas por el ACHP describen el proceso de revisión según la Sección 106 y especifican las acciones que las agencias federales deben tomar para cumplir con sus obligaciones legales.

A memory portfolio of Chairman Donaldson's and the ACHP's accomplishments over the last eight years

The ACHP's triennial report to the President on federal property stewardship  

A report to the President on the status of federal historic property management

A Report to the President on the status of federal historic property management

In March 2014, the ACHP published Managing Change: Preservation and Rightsizing in America, a report addressing rightsizing and historic preservation in America's legacy cities

In 2013, the ACHP issued a report, Measuring Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation. Commissioned by the ACHP, with funding assistance from the U.S.

Preservationists marked the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 2016 and took the opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of the federal preservation program that was created by the NHPA. In conjunction with a public outreach effort, the ACHP analyzed the federal preservation program established by the NHPA and developed recommendations for actions that would improve the program to address current and future needs. 

This handbook provides advice on coordinating NEPA and Section 106 compliance procedures to improve environmental reviews.

Section 106 and the United States Air Force: What You Need to Know About Historic Preservation

This handbook presents recommendations for federal agencies, applicants, and Indian tribes to work together in pre-application information gathering or prior to initiating the Section 106 process.

Preservation in Practice is a program the ACHP spearheaded with the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation introducing architecture students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to historic preservation work.

The ACHP's Leveraging Federal Historic Buildings Working Group has produced its Final Report with findings and recommendations for the public and private sector on how to use historic federal buildings and spark economic growth.