Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act is under attack. It’s not the first time. The rationale for these attacks has remained the same for the last 50 years: Section 106 ...

“It was a very nationalistic view.” The National Historic Preservation Act was signed into law in 1966, creating the National Register of Historic Places, the State Historic Preservation ...

In 1966, Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act after years of mass demolition of historic sites and buildings. “By the mid-1960s, federally-funded infrastructure and urban ...

Since the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in the 1970s, federally funded projects, like highway constructions, or the construction of reservoirs, must have an archaeological ...

And those emergency processes may also be used to weaken the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), specifically by weakening Section 106 protections — a portion of the act that requires ...

It carries out historic-preservation case reviews and administers the National Historic Preservation Act. Section 106 of the act requires agencies to consider how projects will impact historic ...

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires agencies to assess whether federally-funded projects could harm cultural resources and, if so, determine how to minimize that harm.