Programmatic Agreement Among the United States General Services Administration, the District of Columbia State Historic Preservation Office, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Capital Planning Commission, the National Park Service, and Trump Old Post Office LLC Regarding the Leasing, Rehabilitation, Ongoing Maintenance, and Stewardship of then Old Post Office and Annex and Associated Transportation Improvements, Washington, D.C.   Amendment #1 to Old Post Office PA Changing Tenant (2023)   

On November 18th, 2004 the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (Council) approved a program comment that facilitates the Navy’s and Air Force’s compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, with regard to management of their inventories of Capehart and Wherry Era housing units, associated structures, and landscape features.

Program Comment on Stewardship and Management of National Park Service Mission 66-Era Facilities (1945-1972) for Compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

This illustrated report summarizes the findings of a 1979 ACHP study on the contributions of historic preservation activities to urban revitalization. The data were derived from studying four historic districts - Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia; The Strand in Galveston, Texas; the Savannah Historic District in Georgia; and Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington. The report summarizes the esthetic, economic, and social benefits of historic preservation in each district. 

The ACHP is building a data platform that will accelerate and improve the consideration of historic properties in infrastructure project planning. By integrating information about historic properties with other geographical information, the system will help planners reduce and avoid impacts to historic properties by factoring this knowledge into early decisions about project siting. 

Mrs. Laura Bush, honorary chair of the Preserve America initiative, led a national Preserve America Summit October 18-20, 2006, in New Orleans, Louisiana, marking the 40th anniversary of the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation was a partner and served as Summit coordinator. In August 2007, the ACHP issued recommendations based on the issues raised at the Summit.

The Tinian Landing Beaches, Ushi Point and North Fields, Tinian Island National Historic Landmark (collectively known as the Tinian NHL) are recognized for the role they played in World War II. The capture of Tinian, an island within the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), in the summer of 1944 from Japan by the United States Marine Corps provided American forces with an airstrip from which to support military campaigns in the Western Pacific and served as the base from which the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were staged.

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).