This handbook guided participants in the Section 106 review process for many years, but has since been superseded by current guidance.

Office of Federal Agency Programs fact sheet in Spanish

The ACHP's Action Plan to Support SHPOs/THPOs, adopted July 14, 2015. Click here to view the plan in pdf format.

Alan Spears, Senior Director of Cultural Resources, Government Affairs, National Parks Conservation Association

Treaties From 1778 to 1871, the federal government’s relations with Indian Tribes were defined and conducted largely through the treaty-making process. These treaties recognized the sovereignty of Indian Tribes. They also established unique sets of rights, benefits, and conditions for the treaty-making Tribes that agreed to cede millions of acres of their homelands to the United States in return for recognition of property rights in land and resources and federal protections.

On March 25, 2004, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation approved technical and administrative amendments to the Army Alternate Procedures. Those Army Alternate Procedures set forth a process that Army installations can follow in order to meet their historic preservation review responsibilities under the National Historic Preservation Act. The main purposes of the amendments are to conform the Alternate Procedures to the Army’s internal reorganization, and clarify its exemption regarding designated surface danger zones. 

In 2013, the ACHP issued a report, Measuring Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation. Commissioned by the ACHP, with funding assistance from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, the report identifies and analyzes methods for measuring the economic impacts of historic preservation.

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).