FEDERAL PRESERVATION INSTITUTE Technical Information

The Federal Preservation Institute is pleased to offer the following publications for use by all interested parties.

The Historic Preservation Learning Portal is an Internet website that provides a fast, direct link to historic preservation information and training on more than 1,000 federal, state, tribal, educational, and non-profit websites. The HPLP brochure helps you get started exploring historic preservation on the web!

Responding to requests by Federal Preservation Officers (FPOs), the Federal Preservation Institute has developed a series of folders that describe important aspects of every federal agency's historic preservation responsibilities.

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Historic Preservation: A Responsibility of Every Federal Agency. This folder provides a quick, easy to read introduction to federal historic preservation. Complete with examples of federal stewardship, consultation, rehabilitation, and protection, the folder also summarizes milestones in federal historic preservation law.

Consultation with Native Americans: A Historic Preservation Responsibility. This folder describes how federal agencies can develop meaningful "government-to-government" relationships with Indian Tribes. It outlines best practices and a seven step process for effective consultation.

FPI also periodically sponsors conferences that address national historic preservation issues.

FPI presented "A Citizens Guide to Federal Preservation in Maryland" at the Preservation Maryland statewide preservation and revitalization conference during Preservation Month 2007. The purpose of this session was to help citizens understand the federal role within historic preservation in Maryland. The session included discussions on: "Recognizing an Old Friend: Understanding Federal Historic Designations;: "Federal Agencies and Historic Preservation in Maryland;" and "Federal Grants for Historic Preservation."

In 2002, FPI worked in partnership with a variety of federal agencies on Balancing Public Safety and Protection of Historic Places and Collections. The program addressed the protection of high risk historic icons, alterations to landscapes and civic spaces, protection of collections housed in historic structures, and development of partnerships among local, state, and federal disaster offices.

In 2006 FPI worked with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region to sponsor DataPalooza, a symposium on Federal enterprise architecture and its impact on historic preservation.

Facts for Feds provide brief information on historic preservation topics of interest to Federal Presevation Officers and their clients.

Measuring the Economic Impact of Federal Historic Properties: An Introduction to the Impact of Federal Stewardship of Historic Properties on Economic Vitality. Executive Order 13287, Preserve America, signed in the spring of 2003, emphasizes using Federal historic properties to enhance economic vitality of communities. Yet, no specific guidance was provided to Federal agencies on how to measure the impact of their stewardship decisions on economic growth. This paper was prepared as a starting point for Federal preservation officers and historic preservation staff at Federal agencies to understand how the historic properties managed by the Federal government can contribute to local economies.

FPI also supports the diffusion of historic preservation information by hosting publications not generally available elsewhere that are of interest to the federal historic preservation community. Check out the FPI Bookshelf.