New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 10 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Part 19 - CULTURAL RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM AND RECORDS
Section 4.10.19.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Application" means the document, provided by HPD on its website or other method that is used to request access to NMCRIS or to the records repository.

B. "ARMS" means the archaeological records management section, a bureau within the historic preservation division that manages NMCRIS and the repository.

C. "ARMS special request form" means the document, provided by HPD on its website or other method that is used to request ARMS's assistance in obtaining information from NMCRIS or the records repository including customized database queries.

D. "Assisted access user" means an individual or entity with a property interest or regulatory oversight that does not meet the standards for qualified user, but wants access to information about cultural properties or cultural resource investigations that is relevant to the property interest or regulatory oversight.

E. "Cooperative agreement" means an agreement between HPD and a public agency or tribal government to maintain and expand NMCRIS and the repository.

F. "Cultural Properties Act" means Sections 18-6-1 through 186-17 NMSA 1978.

G. "Cultural property" or "cultural resource" means a structure, place, site or object that has or may have historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or other cultural significance.

H. "CPRC" means the cultural properties review committee created pursuant to Section 18-6-9 of the Cultural Properties Act.

I. "Cultural resource investigation" or "investigation" means the study of a specific cultural property or specific area to identify, record, evaluate, interpret or protect cultural properties.

J. "Cultural resource records" means the paper and digital files and related materials including, but not limited to, forms, journals, maps, databases, photographs, nominations, manuscripts and reports associated with cultural properties or cultural resource investigations conducted in the state of New Mexico.

K. "DCA" means the department of cultural affairs created pursuant to Section 9-4A-4 NMSA 1978.

L. "HPD" means the historic preservation division within the DCA created pursuant to Subsection A of Section 18-6-8 of the Cultural Properties Act.

M. "HPD website" means http://nmhistoricpreservation.org or its successor site.

N. "Independent researcher" means a qualified user who is unaffiliated with a qualified institution and is performing uncompensated research for the researcher's own benefit. Paid consultants are not independent researchers.

O. "Individual account" means an account for accessing NMCRIS and the records repository for each qualified user.

P. "Institutional agreement" means a document, signed annually by qualified institutions or independent researchers. The agreement specifies the requirements for using and disseminating information from NMCRIS and the records repository.

Q. "NMCRIS" means the New Mexico cultural resource information system, an online computer information system that integrates geographic, research, and management data on cultural properties and cultural resource investigations.

R. "Performing entity" or "performing agency" means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, educational institution, foundation, museum, public agency or tribal government that carries out cultural resource investigations and creates cultural resource records.

S. "Public agency" means a federal or state agency or political subdivision of the state that has administrative responsibility for consulting with the state historic preservation officer under federal or state laws including but not limited to section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act ( 54 U.S.C. § 306108) and Section 18-6-8.1 of the Cultural Properties Act, Section 18-8-7 of the Prehistoric and Historic Sites Preservation Act, and Section 18-6A-5 of the Cultural Properties Protection Act.

T. "Qualified institution" means an entity, other than an independent researcher, that signs an institutional agreement and that authorizes one or more qualified users to represent it for purposes of accessing the records repository and NMCRIS.

U. "Qualified user" means an individual listed in the state historic preservation officer directory or an individual with a bachelor's degree in archaeology, anthropology, architecture, architectural history, historic architecture, history, American studies, historic preservation, or a closely related field from an accredited educational institution or other appropriate education, professional experience, and training as determined by the registrar.

V. "Records repository" or "repository" means the archives maintained by HPD that contain cultural resource records including but not limited to cultural resource investigation reports, plans, and manuscripts; archaeological resource records; historic building, structure, and other cultural property records; state register of cultural properties and national register of historic places nominations; and related materials.

W. "Registrar" means the employee of HPD assigned to manage ARMS.

X. "Report recipient" means an organization, public agency, tribal government, or individual that commissions a performing entity to conduct a cultural resource investigation.

Y. "SHPO" means the state historic preservation officer and is the individual appointed pursuant to Section 18-6-8 of the Cultural Properties Act who serves as the director of HPD.

Z. "SHPO directory" means the list of cultural resource and historic preservation professionals established pursuant to 4.10.8 NMAC.

AA. "User's guide" means the manual issued by HPD on its website or through other distribution methods that describes the process and standards to submit cultural resource records to NMCRIS and the records repository.