Title: Programmatic Agreement among Federal Highway Administration, Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Officer, and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regarding Wisconsin Department of Transportation Project ID#1060-27-00 WHS #13-0065 I-94 East-West Corridor Study (70th Street to16th Street) City of Milwaukee Milwaukee County  

Programmatic Agreement Among the Federal Highway Administration, the California Department of Transportation, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, the Presidio Trust, the National Park Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the California State Historic Preservation Division, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for the South Access to the Golden Gate Bridge, Doyle Drive Replacement Project, San Francisco, California

First Amendment to Programmatic Agreement Among the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Veterans Integrated Service Network 12, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Officer, and the National Park Service Regarding Undertakings at Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has developed a Prototype Programmatic Agreement (PPA), in coordination with the ACHP, to create a framework for FEMA in developing agreements to improve and expedite Section 106 compliance for disaster recovery activities.  The ACHP’s Chairman designated the PPA on December 17, 2013 in accordance with 36 CFR Part 800.14(b)(4).

 

Under 36 CFR § 800.14(a), federal agencies may develop their own procedures to implement Section 106, which would substitute for Subpart B of ACHP’s regulations.

Based on interviews with officials from 57 tribes and 21 federal agencies, as well as comments submitted by 100 tribes in 2016 on tribal consultation for infrastructure projects, GAO identified key factors that tribes and agencies believe hinder effective consultation on infrastructure projects. Federal agencies are required, at times, to consult with tribes on infrastructure projects like pipelines that may harm tribal natural and cultural resources.

The Lahaina, Hawaii, wildfires on August 8, 2023, resulted in a devastating loss of life but also caused significant property damage, including to buildings and sites that conveyed the historical significance of the community. On August 10, 2023, President Biden determined that the damage from the wildfires was of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant a major disaster declaration under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, (42 U.S.C. § 5121 et seq.).