Historic
Preservation Fund (HPF)/Preservation Issues
Advocacy Day 2008
Follow the links for 1-pagers for visits to Capitol Hill:
Historic
Preservation Fund (HPF)
On February 5, 2007, President Bush released
his proposed budget for FY2008. A press release issued by the
National Park Service indicates a total of $63.7million for historic
preservation. . . (read more).
Click here
for the Historic Preservation Fund Annual Report for FY2006.
Click here
for some ideas for working with elected officials.
Reauthorization
of the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF)
On
December 9, 2006 the House of Representatives passed S. 1378,
the Senate bill that reauthorizes deposits into the Historic
Preservation Fund (HPF) until 2015.
. . (read more about
the reauthorization).
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2007
Annual Meeting/Advocacy Day Issues
The NCSHPO Annual Meeting is an annual event
that provides opportunities for preservation advocates to meet
with Members of Congress and their staff to provide information
and promote issues of importance to the preservation movement.
Click here
to read more information and get the links to the summaries of
the preservation issues addressed by participants at the 2007
Annual Meeting. Issues include:
- Funding for State Historic Preservation
Offices
- Funding for a Historic
Resources Inventory
- The Community Restoration and Revitalization
Act (H.R.1043 and S.584)
- Congressional Historic Preservation Caucus
- Funding for Preserve America
- Funding for Tribal Historic Preservation
Offices
- Funding for Save America's Treasures
Guide
to the 110th Congress
The first session of the 110th Congress
was convened in early January 2007. The committees listed below
are key to preservation legislation. Click on the committees
to view the members (members are listed by the state they represent).
Click here for more in-depth
information about each of the committees.
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Other Preservation Issues
- Electronic
Collection/Managment of Survey Data
At the 2007
NCSHPO Annual Meeting, the SHPOs participated in a squaretable
discussion on data management in SHPOffices. . . (read
more).
- LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
At the 2007
NCSHPO Annual Meeting, the SHPOs participated in a squaretable
discussion on LEED. . . (read
more about LEED and historic preservation).
- Community
Restoration and Revitalization Act
On November 17, 2004, at the end of
the 108th Congress, Representatives Rob Portman (R-OH) and
William Jefferson (D-LA) introduced the Community Restoration
and Revitalization Act (H.R.5378). (read
more about this act)
- Surface
Transportation Reauthorization
The Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century (TEA-21), the successor bill to Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), expired on
October 1, 2003. After 7 extensions, the program is set to
expire on June 30, 2005 and the House-Senate Conference Committee
has begun. . . (read more).
- State
Studies on the Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation
Does historic preservation make sense?
Are there economic, as well as cultural and aesthetic, benefits
to communities that invest in their historic resources? The
answer is. . . (read more).
- The
National Register of Historic Places
The concern for considering the rights
of private property owners in the National Register of Historic
Places nomination process emerged with a case in Los Angeles,
California when a property owner found his redevelopment proposal
possibly subject to local regulatory restrictions. . . (read
more).
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