Current Legislation and Background | Advocacy Resources | NCSHPO Initiatives |
| Best Practices | Additional Resources

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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
• 5.25.10 NPS Second Century Report - House (Ruth Pierpont)
  • Attachment - Second Century Report - House
• 5.14.10 Historic Preservation Fund - Senate (Ruth Pierpont)
• 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.

• Archaeological Resources (updated 5.25.10)
  • Archaeological database (updated 5.25.10)
  • Cemetery Resoureces (Posted 5.25.10)
  • Rock Cairns and Walls (updated 5.25.10)
  • Toxic Waste Archaeology (Posted 5.26.10)
• Architectural Examples, Successful Projects and Good Infill (updated 5.25.10)
  • Armories (updated 5.25.10)
  • Barns (updated 5.25.10)
  • Baseball Fields (updated 5.25.10)
  • Bridges (updated 5.25.10)
  • Chain Hotels (updated 5.25.10)
  • College Campuses (updated 5.25.10)
  • Conservatories/Greenhouses (updated 5.25.10)
  • High Rise Institutional Buildings (updated 5.25.10)
  • Jails (updated 5.25.10)
  • Labor History Sites (updated 5.25.10)
  • Linear Features (updated 5.25.10)
  • Medical Clinics (updated 5.25.10)
  • Outdoor Ampitheaters (updated 5.25.10)
  • Streetscapes (updated 5.25.10)
  • Surrender Sites (updated 5.25.10)
  • Theater Seating (updated 5.26.10)
  • Trailers/Mobile Home Parks (updated 5.25.10)
  • Wood Grain Elevators (updated 5.25.10)
• Context Studies and Design Guidelines (updated 5.25.10)
  • Automobiles (updated 5.25.10)
  • Graveyards (updated 5.25.10)
  • Historic Airfields (updated 5.25.10)
  • New Deal Buildings (updated 5.25.10)
• Education and Youth (updated 5.25.10)
• Energy Efficiency, Sustainability and Green Design (updated 5.25.10)
  • Green Downtowns (updated 5.25.10)
  • Green Roofs (updated 5.25.10)
  • Insulation (updated 5.25.10)
  • NAPC Greenguide (updated 5.25.10)
  • Sustainability Survey (updated 5.25.10)
  • White Roofs (updated 5.25.10)
  • Wind Farms (updated 5.25.10)
• Heritage Tourism resources (updated 5.25.10)
  • African American (updated 5.25.10)
  • War of 1812 (updated 5.25.10)
• Incentives (posted 8.28.08)
  • Agricultural Grants (updated 5.25.10)
  • State Tax Credits/Incentives (updated 5.25.10)
  • Grants to Churches (updated 5.25.10)
• Insurance and Historic Properties (Updated 5.25.10)
• Ordinances, Executive Orders and Protections
  • Appeals Processes (updated 6.4.10)
  • Demolition by Neglect (updated 5.25.10)
  • Executive Orders (updated 5.25.10)
  • State Statutes (updated 5.25.10)
• Quotations on the importance of history and historic preservation (posted 9.12.08)
• SHPO Offices
  • Location of SHPO Offices by Department (posted 5.25.10)
  • Satellite Offices (posted 5.25.10)
  • Section 106 Review Fees (updated 5.25.10)
  • Digitization Funds (updated 5.25.10)
• Survey, Historic Registers and Historic Structures Reports (updated 5.25.10)
  • GIS Information Sharing (updated 5.25.10)
  • State Historic Registers (updated 5.25.10)
  • Historic Structures Reports (updated 5.25.10)

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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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