1. National Historic Preservation Act
Presentation 6: Final thoughts

2. Planning The key to success in compliance is good planning
Long, complex process
Many of the people involved are planners working in federal agency planning departments
Some agencies use the authority of Section 110 to do extensive surveys of their land before any projects take place
Some agencies do archaeological predictive modeling as a planning strategy
How?
Some agencies do regional archaeological planning
GIS is an important planning tool
Why?

3. Curation
Curation of archaeological materials is required by ARPA, NHPA and even the Antiquity Act
The “Curation Regulation” is at 36 CFR Part 79
It spells out the requirements, which are fairly commonsensical but complicated and extensive
There is a crisis in curation
There’s no space
Few repositories meet code
SAA has a task force
Terry Childs wrote a book about curation and has a good web site for the NPS

4. Related Laws
There is a parallel requirement in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
NEPA has draconian penalties, and many officials worry about it much more than about NHPA
So, it’s good to point out that if they haven’t done their cultural resources compliance, they haven’t complied with NEPA
However, complying with NEPA is not a legal substitute for complying with NHPA
Department of Transportation Act, Section 4(f). DoT generally complies with its own statutory mandate; coordination with NHPA is mysterious (to both me and the Advisory Council).
A variety of others (Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, Federal Records Act, Abandoned Shipwreck Act, Reservoir Salvage Act)