The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is reporting its progress on identifying, protecting, and using historic properties to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Secretary of the Interior (SOI) for the period October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2023, pursuant to Section 3 of Executive Order (EO) 13287 – Preserve America.

On September 23, 2016, the Department of the Interior, Department of Justice, and the Department of the Army issued a joint letter to Tribal Leaders committing to a broad review and consultation with Tribes on how Federal decision making on infrastructure and related projects can better allow for timely and meaningful Tribal input. This Report, Improving Tribal Consultation and Tribal Involvement in Federal Infrastructure Decisions, is the product of this government-to-government consultation and comments received from fifty-nine Tribes (and eight organizations representing Tribal interests) in October and November 2016. It reflects the start of a continuing nation-to-nation consultation that is needed to ensure that infrastructure projects are sited in a manner that lives up to the United States’ obligations to Tribes.

The Presidio of San Francisco is a National Historic Landmark District (NHLD) listed on the National Register of Historic Places. When the Presidio passed out of Department of the Army hands due to a base closure process in 1992, the former military installation became part of the National Park Service's (NPS) Golden Gate National Recreation Area and became available for other uses, creating both opportunities and challenges. The Presidio Trust, a federal corporation, was created in 1997 as a governing body to guide the fate and future of this resource.

In order to protect and restore rivers and their adjacent communities, the American Heritage Rivers initiative has three objectives: natural resource and environmental protection, economic revitalization, and historic and cultural preservation.

The ACHP has received a number of inquiries regarding the Section 106 responsibilities of federal agencies with regard to the development of on and off-shore wind farms. We are specifically asked what kinds of federal actions related to the development and operation of wind farms make such projects “undertakings” subject to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and its implementing regulations, “Protection of Historic Properties” (36 CFR 800).

Memorandum of Agreement for the Lease Construction - MAL92600 U.S. Probation & Corps of Engineers Building 201 St. Michael Street, Mobile, Alabama (1993)   Original MOA Agreement (1993) Amendment #1 to MOA (1993)  

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the US General Services Administration (GSA), the Texas Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the transfer of 50 acres at the Forth Worth Medical Center to the US Postal Service (USPS) for a new City of Forth Worth Maintenance Facility (2003)

VA Memorandum of Agreement Among the Jonathan M. Wainwright VA Memorial Medical Center, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the Washington State Historic Preservation Officer Regarding Demolition of Building 7 and New Possible Building Construction at the Walla Walla VA Medical Center (WA)

Memorandum of Agreement between the General Services Administration, the Indian Health Service, and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer Regarding the Demolition and Conveyance of the Former Alaska Native Medical Center Complex, 255 & 250 Gambrel Street, Anchorage, Alaska.

GSA Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. General Services Administration and the District of Columbia State Historic Preservation Officer Regarding Perimeter Security for Federal Office Building (FOB) 8, Washington, D.C.