Nationwide Programmatic Agreement Among the Department of Homeland Security, the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Regarding Department of Homeland Security Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Undertakings

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has issued a program comment for the U.S. Department of the Army that sets forth the way in which the Army complies with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for its inventory of Inter-War Era historic housing management actions, including: maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, abatement, mothballing, demolition, replacement construction, new construction, lease and conveyance.

Executive Summary In conjunction with its May 9, 2003, quarterly meeting, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) hosted a second summit meeting of Federal agencies to discuss cultural heritage tourism. As was apparent at the first summit meeting in November 2002, many Federal agencies are already supporting heritage tourism in various ways through their missions and programs.

This report explains how saving energy is a benefit of preserving historic buildings - that it takes less energy to restore old buildings than to replace them. Designed for a general audience, it summarizes research that is described in detail in Assessing the Energy Conservation Benefits of Historic Preservation: Methods and Examples.

Answers to common questions about the use of the Program Comment for Federal Communications Projects

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).