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Citizen’s Guide to Section 106 New Edition Now Available
The ACHP is proud to announce it has updated and reissued Protecting Historic Properties: A Citizen’s Guide to Section 106. The Citizen’s Guide is a useful tool for learning how to protect historic places in your community.

Case Digest Now Available
The latest edition of the ACHP's quarterly Case Digest is available now. Read stories about current historic preservation activities across the United States.

America's Great Outdoors Wants to Hear from You
President Barack Obama has established the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and to reconnect Americans to the outdoors, history, and places that are important to them. A series of listening sessions around the country are taking place this summer and fall. Read more.

First Lady Designates 29 New Preserve America Communities
First Lady Michelle Obama recently designated 29 communities as Preserve America Communities bringing the grand total of designated communities to 843 over the seven years the program has been in existence. Read more about the latest designees across the United States. Read more.

ACHP Task Force on Sustainability and Historic Preservation
A task force of ACHP members has started its work addressing areas of concern in energy efficiency and community livability as part of a greater government priority for sustainability. Read more about who is serving on the task force and its activities and goals. Read more.

President Names Donaldson New ACHP Chairman
May 18, 2010 — President Barack Obama named California State Historic Preservation Officer Milford Wayne Donaldson as the new chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Read more.

ACHP Publishes Q&A for Gulf Oil Spill Response
Read the ACHP's Questions and Answers regarding treatment of historic properties in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and visit the ACHP's page on the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for the Protection of Historic Properties During Federal Emergency Response.

ACHP to Offer Training in Micronesia
Find out more about Section 106 training in the Pacific in July. Read the flyer.

Cape Wind Project Approved by Secretary Salazar
April 28 — Today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved the Cape Wind project to be constructed in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts. In accordance with Section 106, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation had provided formal comments to the Secretary on April 2. The ACHP recommended that he not approve the project. The Secretary noted he is approving the project with modifications that will help protect the affected historic, cultural, and environmental resources. Read DOI's news release. Read the Secretary's response to the ACHP on his decision. Read the ACHP's formal comments.

Preserve America E-Newsletter Available
Read the latest e-newsletter with stories of new designations and activities Preserve America Communities can host for heritage tourism, and much more.

ACHP Honors Army Partnership That Preserved Fort Monroe, Virginia
The U.S. Army and its partners were recognized with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's (ACHP) Chairman's Award for Federal Achievement in Historic Preservation for exemplary actions to preserve and protect into the future the richly historic and irreplaceable Fort Monroe, Virginia. Read more.

Cape Wind Project Formal Comments Conveyed to Secretary Salazar on April 2
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) provided final comments on historic preservation issues relating to the proposed Cape Wind project to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and the Minerals Management Service on April 2, 2010. Read more.

Click here to read the ACHP's comments.

ACHP Updates Tribal Consultation Plan
While the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has long had a consultation plan for dealing with tribal governments in existence, President Barack Obama's Nov. 4, 2009, executive memorandum served as the impetus for updating the plan and submitting it to the Office of Management and Budget to better comply with the directive. Read more.

ACHP and Department of Energy Streamline Section 106 Process
The ACHP and DOE are providing a prototype Programmatic Agreement for dealing with historic properties as part of Recovery Act projects. Read more.

Registration is now open for ACHP's 2010 Training
Register online and get more information about the courses.

Preserve America Grants Effectiveness Report Released
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has released a report to Congress on the preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of Preserve America Grants over the last four years. Read more.

Section 3 Report to the President Now Available
The 2009 Report to the President on the federal government's stewardship of its historic properties is now available. Read more. Download the report.

Web-based Archaeology Guidance Now Available
Washington, D.C.—The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has developed new archaeology guidance to assist federal agencies in meeting their responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The guidance is available at: www.achp.gov/archguide. Read more.

ACHP News Archive

Section 106 Archaeology Guidance
ACHP Guidance on Program Comments as a Program Alternative
Register for the ACHP's Section 106 Course
Heritage Tourism
Economic Issues in Historic Preservation
Preserve America