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Reading (handouts on cabinet next to my office)

• Fowler, John M., 2003. “The federal preservation program” in A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation, Robert E. Stipe, ed. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. Chapter 2.
• Preservation Ethos and Fundamentals — A Richer Heritage, Introduction and Chapter 1. google books (Review from week one of class.)
• Wallace, Michael. "Reflections on the History of Historic Preservation" in Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Benson, Susan Porter, et. al., eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. google books (Review from week one of class.)

Questions (some of these may be included in the final version for the Study Questions for the test.)

1. What role does the National Park Service (NPS) play in historic preservation?
   1. NPS
   2. Preservation
      1. Technical Preservation Services
      2. Others, deatils below
   3. Recent reports (2011)
      1. Call to Action report 2011, NPS
      2. Aligned for Success...Recommendations to Increase the Effectiveness of the Federal Historic Preservation Program, Federal Historic Preservation Task Force, 2011
2. What is the National Trust for Historic Preservation?
   1. NTHP
   2. Preservation10x, unofficial site, Facebook
3. Federal legislation
   1. Preservation Legal Defense, NTHP
   2. Federal Preservation Laws, NTHP
   3. Federal Historic Preservation Laws at a Glance, NTHP
   4. List, PCM
   5. Federal Legistlation, HP 202
4. What are HABS, HAER, HALS — all under the NPS Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP)?
   1. HDP
5. What is the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)?
   1. NPS,
   2. USFWS
   3. CT Trust, What is its significance?
6. What are the key compnents of the NHPA?
   1. Components (in detail, after)
      1. Advisory Council on Historic Presrvation (ACHP)
      2. National Register of Historic Places (NR) and National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), started in 1960
      3. State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs)
      4. "Section 106"
      5. "Section 110" federal agency preservation programs
      6. Certified Local Governments (CLGs), section 101
   2. What is the Advisory Council of Historic Preservation (ACHP)?
      1. ACHP Who appoints the advsors and who do they report to? What are its statutory duties? What is its primary role
   3. What is the National Register of Historic Places (the "National Register', NR)?
      1. National Register of Historic Places Program;
      2. Fundamentals;
      3. FAQ: restrictions, rules, regulations.
      4. National Register of Historic Places Program
      5. What are the benefits of having a propertly listed in the National Register?
         1. Fundamentals;
         2. FAQ:
         3. restrictions, rules, regulations.
   4. What is the National Historic Landmark Program?
      1. NPS
      2. Database, NPS
   5. What is the State Historic Preservaton Office (SHPO)? What are their mandated responsibilities?
      1. NCSHPO
      2. State Historic Preservation Office mandated responsibilities (NHPA section 106)
   6. What is Section 106 of the NHPA? Consider the following: 'undertaking', 'consulting parties', 'potentially affected historic properties', assessing and resolving 'adverse effects' and 'memorandum of agreement (MOA).
   7. What is NHPS, section 110?
      1. NPS
   8. What is the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program
      1. NPS
   9. What are Certified Local Governments (CLGs),
      1. NPS
      2. NHPA, as amended, section 101
7. What is the Department of Transportation (DOT) Act of 1966, section 4(f)
   1. NTHP
   2. US DOT
8. What is Executive Order 11593?
   1. Explanation with case law at ACHP,
   2. order at HUD,
   3. Executive Order at Wikipedia.
9. What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended
   1. EPA
   2. USFWS. How is it different from the NHPA?