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.

This order moves to accommodate access to and ceremonial use of Indian sacred sites by Indian religious practitioners, and avoid affecting the physical integrity of those sites in any adverse way.

Section 106 requires each federal agency to identify and assess the effects of its undertakings on historic properties. It applies when two thresholds are met: there is a federal, federally assisted, or federally licensed activity; and that activity has the potential to affect properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

As communication and decision making happens increasingly online, it is more important than ever to encourage the use of electronic signatures for Section 106 Memoranda of Agreement (MOAs) and project Programmatic Agreements (PAs). Since the Section 106 regulations do not provide detail on what signature formats may be used to execute agreement documents, the ACHP is providing information to support the development of best practices to help those considering whether or how to use electronic signatures for Section 106 agreements.

Memorandum of Agreement Between the United States General Services Administration and the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office Submitted to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Pursuant to 36 CFR 800 Regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigations's Central Records Complex in Frederick County, Virginia

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the US General Services Administration (GSA), the Louisiana State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation for the lease of space at the US Custom House, New Orleans, to the Audubon Institute for the construction of the "Insectarium," or Living Science Museum Project (1999).  

Memorandum of Agreement among the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Oscar G. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Michigan State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Michigan Strategic Fund regarding the Demolition of Building Number 3 at the Oscar G. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the Preservation Officers of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Regarding the Disposal of the Federal Helium System at Cliffside and Associated Pipeline and Built Infrastructure