Mission Statement: The ACHP promotes the involvement of Native youth in historic preservation as both a means to protect places of religious and cultural significance to them and as a career path. Download full document here

Communities across America are experiencing housing shortages, especially shortages of affordable housing. The Policy Statement on Housing and Historic Preservation promotes federal, state, and local action to rehabilitate historic buildings for housing and accelerate permitting and environmental review, including Section 106 review.

With passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966, the federal government embarked on a new era of leadership in the preservation of our nation’s historic properties. 

Section 304 of the NHPA protects certain sensitive information about historic properties from disclosure to the public when such disclosure could result in a significant invasion of privacy, damage to the historic property, or impede the use of a traditional religious site by practitioners.

Section 800.4(b)(1) of the Section 106 regulations states that federal agency officials shall make a “reasonable and good faith effort” to identify historic properties.This guidance was developed to assist federal agencies and consulting parties in determining what constitutes a reasonable and good faith identification effort. 

Archaeologists and others working in the field of historic preservation benefit from better understanding and more inclusive interpretations of indigenous1 sites and places, including Traditional Cultural Places (TCPs)2 and cultural landscapes encountered during cultural resource surveys or research projects. While non-indigenous landscapes exist across the country and need to be considered as well, this information paper focuses on indigenous landscapes. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) requires federal agencies engaged in undertakings to identify and assess effects of their actions on historic properties, including indigenous landscapes considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.

  The Relationship Between Executive Order 13007 Regarding Indian Sacred Sites and Section 106 Introduction

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

In response to recent catastrophic events across the country, such as flooding, snow, ice, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, pandemics, and fires, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) has prepared the following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to assist State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs), federal agencies, and other historic preservation partners in addressing Section 106 requirements during disaster response efforts.

America’s historic properties–important places that help to define and connect people to their communities–are experiencing escalating climate impacts that are increasingly leading to their damage and destruction. This policy statement addresses how climate change affects historic properties, articulates principles the ACHP will integrate into Section 106 reviews involving climate issues, and advises public-serving institutions on how they may research, plan for, mitigate, and adapt to climate change impacts on historic properties.