skip
general nav links About ACHP ACHP News National Historic Preservation Program Working with Section 106 Federal, State, & Tribal Programs Training & Education Publications Search |
skip
specific nav links Home News Section 106 Amendments Now in Effect Section 106 Amendments Now in Effect Amendments to the regulations governing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. § 470f) are in effect as of August 5, 2004. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) voted to adopt the amendments at its business meeting May 4, 2004, and the amendments were published in the Federal Register July 6, 2004, at 69 F.R. 40544-40555. Click
here for the amended ACHP regulations, Click
here for the preamble to the Section 106 amendments [Please note that due to a technical publication error, the Federal Register copy of section III of the preamble regarding the ACHP responses to public comments fails to distinguish between the quotes of public comments, which were to be bold typeface, and the ACHP responses. The text of the preamble that is accessed by clicking on "amendments and their preamble" at the beginning of this paragraph is correctly formatted.] As explained more fully in the preamble, most of the amendments respond to court decisions which held that:
Other amendments clarify an issue regarding the time period for objections to "No Adverse Effect" findings and establish that the ACHP can propose an exemption to the Section 106 process on its own initiative, rather than needing a Federal agency to make such a proposal. -- An independent Federal agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) promotes historic preservation nationally by providing a forum for influencing Federal activities, programs, and policies that affect historic properties, advising the President and Congress, advocating preservation policy, improving Federal preservation programs, protecting historic properties, and educating stakeholders and the public. -- You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print
the document. If you do not have the program, please visit Adobe to download
the free Acrobat Reader.
|