On July 2, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the INVEST in America Act, in which Congresswoman Leger Fernández secured an amendment to permanently authorize the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) and double its authorization level to $300 million for each fiscal year. While Congress must still decide each year how much to actually appropriate, and to which line…
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NPS Press Release (June 7, 2021) In response to more than 3,200 comments received from the public and valued preservation partners, the National Park Service (NPS) has announced it is withdrawing its March 2019 proposal to revise regulations governing the listing of properties in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). “After much consideration we…
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The President’s Budget for fiscal year 2022 includes $151.8 million for HPF programs – fittingly, this would be the first time it is fully funded at its original authorized amount. The HPF budget includes an $8.0 million increase for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices and $2.0 million for State Historic Preservation Offices. Read more about the full breakdown here. That’s…
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Headquarters Division of Education, Cultural and Paleontological Resources invites you to participate in a Zoom meeting to learn about the agency’s plans for a two-year extension of the National Programmatic Agreement (nPA) for National Historic Preservation Act implementation. The agreement will expire in February of 2022, and the bureau…
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So You’re a THPO, Now What? Please join us June 23-24, 2021 from 12:30-4:00pm EDT for the next FREE virtual workshop in our new series on establishing a THPO Program. This new workshop series has been helping tribes learn what being a THPO is and means, navigate the NPS THPO application, and now get information and best practices…
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It’s that time again! Increasing the amount appropriated for THPOs in the Historic Preservation Fund is a primary area of advocacy for NATHPO. And we need you! Here is a letter template you can personalize – one for the House and one for the Senate. Legislators prefer that you send these to your own Representatives and your own Senators. You know…
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Thank you for joining NPS and NATHPO on Friday, April 23, 2:00-3:30 pm (Eastern) for a virtual open house for Tribes and THPOs regarding implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) in the National Park Service. Watch the recording here. Download the PowerPoint presentation here. Topics: overview of the GAOA Legacy Restoration Fund and the Land and…
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On February 9, more than 200 conservation, Indigenous, religious and business groups sent a letter urging President Biden to withdraw the approval of a land exchange that would trade away Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site on the Tonto National Forest in central Arizona, to international mining company Rio Tinto. In the final days of the Trump…
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On February 11, 2021, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) announced that it was terminating consultation on the development of a Section 106 agreement with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the Resolution Copper Project and Southeast Arizona Land Exchange in Tonto National Forest (TNF), Arizona. Pursuant to its responsibilities under the National Historic…
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Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) announces the action alert for National Register Final Rule, Request Meeting & Consultation. The DOI/NPS Rule that would fundamentally alter the National Register of Historic Places’ process has moved from Proposed to Final and has been sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at…
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