Preparing Successful No-Effect and No-Adverse-Effect Section 106 Determinations: A Handbook for Transportation Cultural Resource Practitioners

Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, federal agencies, including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), must consider the effect of an undertaking on historic properties. For transportation undertakings, state departments of transportation (DOTs) frequently act as the federal agency representative and evaluate the effects on historic properties as part of the transportation project development process. DOTs must be equipped not only to make such evaluations but also to clearly communicate the findings to federal agencies, State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs), other consulting parties, and members of the public. The objective of this research is to produce a handbook for cultural resource professionals at state DOTs and other transportation agencies on developing and effectively communicating Section 106 determinations for findings of no-effect and no-adverse-effect to historic properties from transportation projects.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5172

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $149980
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 25-65

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Brooks, Mike

• Performing Organizations:

  WSP USA

  One Penn Plaza
  250 W 34th Street
  New York, New York  United States  10119
• Principal Investigators:

  McDonald, Camilla

• Start Date: 20220914
• Expected Completion Date: 20240114
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cultural resources; Federal government agencies; Handbooks; Historic preservation; Regulation; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; History; Law; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01773427
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 25-65
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 28 2021 7:30PM