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Current Legislation and Background

• One-pagers for legislative visits (from 2010 Advocacy Day)
• Funding for State Historic Preservation Offices
• Funding for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices
• Funding for a Preserve America/Save America's Treasures Grants
• Support for Historic Commercial & Homeowners Tax Credits
• Authorization for the Transportation Enhancements
• Information on Preservation and Jobs
• Information on Preservtion and Energy
• 2009 Historic Preservation Fund Annual Report
  
• "Dear Colleague" Letters (2010
• Historic Preservation Fund - House
  
• NCSHPO Congressional Testimony
• 4.16.10 Historic Preservation Fund - House (Ruth Pierpont)
• 9.28.09 Homeowner Tax Credit - House (Ruth Pierpont)
• 9.14.09 CLEAR Act - House (Ruth Pierpont)
• 3.23.09 Historic Preservation Fund - House (Ruth Pierpont)
• 6.05.08 Railroad Exemption - House (J. Rodney Little)
• 4.25.08 Historic Preservation Fund - Senate (Jay D. Vogt)
• 4.24.08 PA/SAT Authorization - House (Ruth Pierpont)
• 4.19.08 Historic Preservation Fund - House (Jay D. Vogt)
• 4.09.08 PA/SAT Authorization - Senate (Jay D. Vogt)
• 4.19.07 Historic Preservation Fund - House (Jay D. Vogt)
• 4.21.05 NHPA Amendment - House (Jay D. Vogt)
• 4.18.05 NHPA Amendment Letter - House (Nancy Schamu)

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Advocacy Resources

• Working with Elected Officials
• 110th Congress committee assignments
  • House Appropriations
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Ways and Means
  • Senate Appropriations
  • Senate Energy and Natural Resources
  • Senate Finance

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NCSHPO Initiatives

• Sustainability agenda
• Disaster Response
  • Iowa Flooding
  • Hurricane Report
• Electronic Collection/Managment of Survey Data
• LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
• National Academy of Public Administrators Report on the HPF
• Property Owners Rights in the National Register Nomination Process
• State Studies on the Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation

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Best Practices (Collected Wisdom from the NCSHPO Archives)

Please note the date of the posting. More recent information may be available.

• Access to archaeological databases (posted 8.25.08)
• African American local tourism resources (posted 12.16.08)
• Demolition by neglect ordinances (posted 8.15.08)
• Grants for agricultural buildings (posted 8.28.08)
• Green roofs in historic districts (posted 9.5.08)
• Historic Structures Reports (posted 8.15.08)
• Quotations on the importance of history and historic preservation (posted 9.12.08)
• State Historic Registers
• State Tax Incentives (posted 8.28.08)
• Statutes regulating preservation of state historic resources (posted 8.15.08)
  • For the database of state legislation: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/arts/statehist.htm

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Additional Resources

• Information on the role of Federal Agencies
• Information on working with Section 106
• Save America's Treasures (external link)
• Preserve America (external link)
• States' Preservation Legislation (external link)
• Dam Removal and Historic Preservation (NPS Publication)

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