The ACHP is offering a variety of Section 106 training opportunities this fall that will be presented virtually on Zoom, including one free webinar! Staff in the Office of Federal Agency Programs will present four timely webinars and a Section 106 Essentials course in September:
Defining the Area of Potential Effects (APE)
Wednesday, September 4, 3:00-4:00 pm EDT
Section 106 Program Alternatives
Thursday, September 12, 3:00-4:00 pm EDT
Implementing Section 106 Program Comments
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is now accepting applications for its fall semester internships. These internships are full- or part-time and will be supervised by Chair Sara Bronin or by professional staff members. The ACHP cannot provide funding for these internships this fall and are only open to students who will have funding to support their internship from their school or another source, such as a grant or scholarship. Current students in a program in which they are not allowed to be paid also are eligible. Internships could be virtual, on-site, or hybrid. Internship projects are described below.
ACHP members met July 18 in Washington, DC, for their summer business meeting. Chair Sara Bronin welcomed the three newest appointed members: Erica Avrami, Amelia Marshand, and Jane Woodfin to the meeting. It was also the first meeting attended by governor member Gov. John Carney of Delaware and newly appointed Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin.
Members voted to send letters to Congress in support of an increase in appropriations and reauthorization of the Historic Preservation Fund; support for the HTC-GO Act involving housing and climate-related tax credits; and offering modified language to the National Defense Authorization Act. They also voted to re-convene a digital information task force.
On July 8, The San Diego Union-Tribune published an op-ed by ACHP Chair Sara Bronin in which she lays out how adaptive reuse of historic buildings can help ease California’s housing crisis.
Bronin writes: “Given the magnitude of the housing shortage, we’ll need an all-hands-on-deck approach. I’m optimistic about California and its largest cities making meaningful progress in advancing policies that make the most of its existing building stock.”
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered its decision in the case of Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo (Loper). That decision overturned the long-standing Chevron doctrine, under which courts would defer to permissible agency interpretations of ambiguities in the statutes those agencies administered. After Loper, courts will exercise their independent judgment and use traditional tools of statutory construction to resolve statutory ambiguities, without deferring to an agency interpretation of the law.
