Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 2.10.1996

Procedures for State, Tribal and Local Government Historic Preservation Programs

The National Park Service (NPS) proposes to revise the requirements for State and local historic preservation programs as well as the way NPS administers these programs. The proposed changes are intended to provide more flexibility in State historic preservation office staffing, State Historic Preservation Review Board membership and operations, and carrying out State Historic Preservation Officer responsibilities. This proposed revision also officially recognizes the growing role of tribal historic preservation programs. Some of the proposed changes are necessary because of the 1992 amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act (the Act). Other changes are proposed to reduce the regulatory burden on, and provide more flexibility for, State and local historic preservation programs as well as NPS. Much of this has been done pursuant to the President's Regulatory Reinvention Initiative and Executive Order 12866. Also, the evolution and growing maturity of State and local offices in the national historic preservation program have eliminated the need for some of the more detailed and restrictive requirements. Repetition, advice, and quotations from the Act are no longer needed a