Historic Preservation, Advisory Council 2018 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) has a program comment for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that sets forth the way in which VA complies with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) for its real property actions related to the transfer of property rights of vacant and underutilized buildings, structures and land, including out leases, exchanges, sales, transfers, conveyances, deconstructions and demolitions, and for certain maintenance and repairs.

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (``ACHP'') issued a Program Comment to exempt consideration of effects to rail properties within rail rights-of-way at the request of the U.S. Department of Transportation to accelerate the review of these undertakings under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and to meet the requirement of Section 11504 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. The Program Comment can be used by any federal agency with responsibility to consider the effects of undertakings within rail rights-of-way. Federal agencies using the Program Comment may fulfill their Section 106 responsibilities for the relevant undertakings by implementing the terms of this comment, which include identifying those activities that meet the conditions in Appendix A and opting into the process to identify excluded historic rail properties and seek further streamlining of the review process under the property-based approach.

Notice is hereby given that the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) will hold its next quarterly meeting on Thursday, March 22, 2018. The meeting will be held in Room SR325 at the Russell Senate Office Building at Constitution and Delaware Avenues NE, Washington, DC, starting at 8:30 a.m.