Two-Year Extension to the Programmatic Agreement Among the Bureau of Land Management, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers Regarding the Manner in Which the BLM Will Meet Its Responsibilities Under the National Historic Preservation Act

Programmatic Agreement Among the United States General Services Administration, the United States Department of Agriculture, the District of Columbia State Historic Preservation Office, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Regarding the Interior Modernization of the USDA South Building, Washington, D.C. 

First Amendment to Programmatic Agreement Among the Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Leestown Division Station 596, the Kentucky State Historic Preservation Officer, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Regarding Routine Management Activities at the Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Leestown Division, Fayette County, Kentucky

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.

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

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

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.

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).