THE PRESERVATION BUDGET Select Preservation Priorities for FY 2021 Appropriations
February 2020 The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded nonprofit organization that works to save America’s historic places. From our headquarters in Washington, D.C. and our field offices, we take direct, on-the-ground action when historic sites are threatened. Our work helps build vibrant, sustainable communities. We facilitate public participation in the presevation of sites, buildings, and objects of national significance or interest. We advocate with governments to save America’s heritage and we strive to create a cultural legacy that is as diverse as the nation itself so that all of us can take pride in our part of the American story. For more information, visit SavingPlaces.org.
ON THE COVER: CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE; WOMEN FROM THE MINNESOTA BRANCH OF THE CONGRESSIONAL UNION FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN FRONT OF THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN 1917. PHOTO COURTESY HARRIS & EWING/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE IN TOPEKA, KANSAS, COURTESY MIDWEST NATIONAL PARKS THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION is pleased to publish our second annual report recommending funding levels for select federal preservation programs. These programs have a significant impact on the stewardship of historic resources in every state and congressional district.
Preservationists have long advocated for the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), including funding for state and tribal historic preservation officers. These offices implement the nation’s key preservation programs on the ground, including evaluating the impacts of federal projects, reviewing tax credit projects, and other essential activities.
In each of the past three years, Congress has provided a new record level of funding for the HPF. Last year’s level of $118.6 million represented a 46% increase over FY 2017. Much of this growth has been for grant programs that expand the scope of preservation to better tell a fuller American story. We were especially pleased that last year Congress built upon the success of the African American Civil Rights Grants program by creating a new program to preserve and protect sites and stories associated with securing civil rights for All Americans, including women, American Latino, Native American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and LGBTQ Americans. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Save America’s Treasures, and the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant programs each received increased funding, and the Underrepresented Community Grant Program remained level. As we look to the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment and beyond, we will work to increase funding for these programs and encourage their use to elevate the sites and stories associated with women’s history.
This report also recommends funding for other key agencies and programs that protect our nation’s cultural resources. For example, we recommend funding to abate the nearly $12 billion maintenance backlog in our national parks and to increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Congress has made significant advances in funding these programs, but more work is necessary, including dedicated funding as proposed in the bipartisan “Restore Our Parks Act” and the “Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act.” We also highlight programs of the Bureau of Land Management, which stewards the largest and most diverse body of cultural, historical, and paleontological resources on federal lands.
We are hopeful that this report will assist congressional staff and our preservation partners in appreciating—and advocating for—key federal programs that protect our nation’s legacy of historic resources to benefit all Americans. THOMAS J. CASSIDY, VICE PRESIDENT OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND POLICY, NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Contents
PRESERVATION BUDGET AT-A-GLANCE...... 2
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Historic Preservation Fund ...... 3–18
Deferred Maintenance ...... 19
Affiliated Areas ...... 21
Cultural Programs ...... 23
International Park Affairs...... 25
National Heritage Areas...... 27
Other programs
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom...... 29 African American Civil Rights Network...... 31 Reconstruction Era National Historic Network ...... 33
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Cultural Resources Management ...... 35
National Conservation Lands...... 37
DEPARTMENT-WIDE
Land and Water Conservation Fund...... 39
Cultural and Scientific Collections ...... 41
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ...... 43
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities...... 45
LEFT: BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT BY DONALD J . ROMMES PRESERVATION BUDGET AT-A-GLANCE
PROGRAM FY18–FY20 ENACTED LEVELS AND FY21 BUDGET REQUESTS (IN MILLIONS)
FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY21 ENACTED ENACTED ENACTED ADMIN NTHP REQUEST REQUEST
Historic Preservation Fund State Historic Preservation Officers $48.925 $49.675 $52.675 $26.934 $61.000 Tribal Historic Preservation Officers $11.485 $11.735 $13.735 $5.738 $22.000 African American Civil Rights Grants $13.000 $14.500 $15.500 $0.000 $20.000 Civil Rights Grants for All Americans N/A N/A $2.500 $0.000 $8.000 Underrepresented Community Grant Program $0.500 $0.750 $0.750 $0.000 $1.000 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Grant Program $5.000 $8.000 $10.000 $8.000 $10.000 Save America’s Treasures $13.000 $13.000 $16.000 $0.000 $18.000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants $5.000 $5.000 $7.500 $0.000 $10.000 Historic Preservation Fund (Total) $96.910 $102.660 $118.660 $40.672 $150.000
Deferred Maintenance Line-Item Construction Projects $137.011 $147.011 $282.956 $131.788 $283.000 Repair and Rehabilitation $134.461 $135.980 $135.950 $121.087 $150.000 Cyclic Maintenance $141.575 $151.575 $153.575 $188.184 $188.000
Other NPS Programs Affiliated Areas $5.551 $5.535 $5.590 $5.225 $6.100 Cultural Programs $25.062 $25.562 $31.127 $20.648 $32.627 International Park Affairs $1.648 $1.648 $1.903 $1.000 $2.000 National Heritage Areas $20.321 $20.321 $21.944 $0.398 $32.000 National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom $1.000 $0.849 $1.109 $1.036 $1.000 African American Civil Rights Network NA $0.000 $0.250 $0.250 $2.000 Reconstruction Era National Historic Network NA NA $0.250 $0.250 $2.000
Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resources Management $17.131 $17.131 $18.631 $15.304 $20.131 Conservation Lands $36.819 $39.819 $43.819 $37.634 $49.500
Land and Water Conservation Fund American Battlefield Protection Program $10.000 $10.000 $13.000 $10.000 $20.000 Land and Water Conservation Fund (Total) $425.000 $435.000 $495.103 $14.752 up to $900.000
Department-Wide Cultural and Scientific Collections $0.998 $0.000 TBD TBD $1.000
Independent Agencies Advisory Council on Historic Preservation $6.400 $6.890 $7.378 $7.400 $7.878 National Endowment for the Arts $152.849 $155.000 $162.250 $30.175 $170.000 National Endowment for the Humanities $152.849 $155.000 $162.250 $33.419 $170.000
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Historic Preservation Fund Overview The Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) is the principal source of funding to implement the nation’s historic preservation programs . Funding for the HPF comes from revenue generated by oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf, not from American taxpayer receipts . The HPF is authorized at $150 million annually, though it is subject to The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago received HPF funding through the Save America’s Treasures program. The annual appropriations and has yet to receive Museum preserves the history of Jane Addams—a social reformer full funding in any annual appropriation . As we and the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize— and connects the legacy of the Hull-House to contemporary commemorate the centennial of the passage of social issues. the 19th Amendment and beyond, HPF funding PHOTO COURTESY CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE TODAY can be leveraged to elevate the sites and stories associated with women’s history . FY 2021 Appropriations Request Background Preserving America’s diverse heri- Please support $150 million for the Historic Preservation Fund in tage, cultures, and traditions requires the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. coordination of federal, state, local, and private efforts . Administered by the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies National Park Service, the HPF pro- APPROPRIATIONS BILL: vides matching grants by formula for AGENCY: National Park Service State Historic Preservation Officers and ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, as well as funding for several targeted Recent Funding History: competitive grant programs, including: FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $96.91 million • Civil Rights Grants; FY 2019 Enacted Funding $102.66 million • Underrepresented Community FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $118.66 million Grants; FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $40.672 million • Historically Black Colleges and FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $150 million Universities Grants; • Save America’s Treasures Grants; JUSTIFICATION: Increased funding for the Historic Preservation Fund would and allow state and tribal historic preservation officers to complete necessary duties • Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization and enhance funding for successful competitive grant programs, such as Civil Rights Grants, Save America’s Treasures, Underrepresented Community Grants, Grants and Historic Revitalization Grants.
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Preserving Main Street
The Historic Preservation Fund benefits preservation in local communities through various programs such as the Certified Local Government (CLG) Program, which includes 2,000 communities nationwide . Jointly administered by the National Park Service and State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), the CLG Program allows local communities to access funding for surveys, National Register nominations, rehabilitation work, educational programs, structural assessments, feasibility studies, and more . At least 10% of HPF funding to states must be passed along to CLGs as subgrants . These local communities can also access SHPO staff for technical assistance . Preserving the historic fabric of main streets helps revitalize local economies and strengthen communities .
As a Certified Local Government, the City of Cleveland, TN, encourages preservation of its historic resources. Among the city’s success stories is the 2014 conversation of the 1915 C.C. Card Auto Company building into 14 loft apartments and two commercial spaces thanks to the Federal Historic Named “America’s Best Main Street” in 2014 by Parade Tax Credit. The project has been a catalyst for the Magazine, Collierville, TN, is a Certified Local Government budding entertainment district along 1st Street. and participates in the Tennessee Main Street program. PHOTO BY CLEVELAND/BRADLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CITY OF COLLIERVILLE
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND State Historic Preservation Officers State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs) administer federal historic preservation programs at the state and local level, as well as administer their own state programs . These programs help communities identify, evaluate, Once the most productive mill in the world, by 2011 the Pillsbury “A” Mill sat vacant and was named one of America’s 11 Most Endangered preserve, and revitalize their historic, Historic Places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Federal and state historic tax credits made this $180 million rehabilitation and archaeological, and cultural resources . affordable housing project possible, which generated an estimated $333.7 million of economic activity. PHOTO BY TROY THIES
Background The National Park Service (NPS) FY 2021 Appropriations Request distributes Historic Preservation Fund Please support $61 million for State Historic Preservation Officers grants to SHPOs by apportionment in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. formula, with states and territories APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies required to match 40% of the funding AGENCY: National Park Service they receive . ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund Grants to States SHPO responsibilities include, but ACTIVITY: are not limited to: Recent Funding History: • Reviewing Federal Historic Tax Credit FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $48.925 million projects FY 2019 Enacted Funding $49.675 million In FY 2018, the federal Historic Tax FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $52.675 million Credit program leveraged $7.7 billion FY 2021 President Budget Request: $26.934 million in private investment and created FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $61 million 129,000 jobs • Reviewing federal projects for their JUSTIFICATION: SHPOs are essential for the implementation of the nation’s impact on historic resources (Section historic preservation programs. For years, they have received relatively level funding while SHPO responsibilities and pressure to speed up the Section 106 106 review) review process have increased. Additional funding will allow SHPOs to maximize SHPOs reviewed nearly 130,500 efficiencies in the federal project review process and better carry out their federal undertakings in 2018 duties under the National Historic Preservation Act. • Locating, surveying, and recording historic and cultural resources National Register of Historic Places • Supporting local historic In 2018, SHPOs and consultants (National Register) preservation programs through the surveyed approximately 19 million SHPOs, in coordination with the NPS, Certified Local Government (CLG) acres for cultural resources added 1,017 new listings to the National Program • Facilitating nominations to the Register of Historic Places in 2018
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Select Preservation Success Stories
One of the core duties of State Historic Preservation Officers is to work with federal agencies to review federal projects for their impact on historic resources, determine whether and how such resources may be affected, and mitigate adverse effects . Below are successful examples of a Section 106 project and also a Historic Tax Credit project .
The Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement In New Mexico, the Permian Basin is well known for its rich oil and gas reserves, including 2 million acres managed by the Pecos District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) . The area is also known for its rich Native American history dating back to 5,000 BC . By 2003, more than 300,000 acres had been surveyed for oil and gas projects and more than 8,000 archaeological sites had been identified and recorded . Processing thousands of oil-and-gas drilling applications per year strained BLM’s ability to protect historic resources in the area . BLM and the New Mexico SHPO worked The century-old Owosso Armory building together to build common ground through a Geographic Information in Owosso, MI, gained new life through System integrated with the New Mexico among archaeologists, tribes, and the the Historic Tax Credit and now houses oil-and-gas industry to create a more Cultural Resource Information System . a chamber of commerce and other small business and nonprofit organizations. collaborative and balanced approach to Use of the agreement procedures gives the oil-and-gas industry predictability PHOTO BY MICHAEL PAINE PHOTOGRAPHY/SHIAWASSEE energy development and archaeology CHAMBER OF COMMERCE in the region . The result was a Section and control over schedules and budgets needed to operate efficiently while also 106 agreement that encompassed 1,700 and Shiawassee County . The project highlighting and protecting the area’s square miles with the most active oil utilized both Federal Historic Tax Credits extensive cultural resources . and gas areas . Operating under the and New Markets Tax Credits as well agreement remains voluntary—but if as other support . Now this National a company accepts the agreement Owosso Armory, Owosso, MI Register site houses the Shiawassee procedures, it contributes to a mitigation Built in 1915, the Owosso Michigan Regional Chamber of Commerce, pool that, in part, covers the cost of National Guard Armory housed several Michigan Small Business Development archaeological surveys . National Guard units and served as a Center, as well as small businesses and Since 2008, the oil industry has community space for nearly a century nonprofit organizations . contributed nearly $11 million to the before it was abandoned in 2007 . In mitigation pool . This has allowed for 2016, the Shiawassee Regional Chamber a comprehensive field program with of Commerce purchased the building all archaeological resources managed from the Michigan Department of Veterans’ Affairs with a vision to create new business opportunities in Owosso
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs) are officially designated by federally-recognized Native American tribes to direct preservation programs approved by the National Park Service (NPS) . The THPO assumes some or all of the functions and responsibilities of State Historic Preservation Officers on tribal lands . The NPS distributes Historic Preservation Fund grants, which are typically matched by Tribes, to THPOs Barnaby Lewis, an Akimel Odham Elder and Tribal Historic by apportionment formula . Preservation Officer for the Gila River Indian Community, at Robbins Butte in southwest Arizona. PHOTO BY ELIAS BUTLER
Background For many years, THPOs have received insufficient federal funding to fully implement their federally mandated FY 2021 Appropriations Request responsibilities . There were only 12 federally recognized THPOs when the program began in 1996, with $79,875 going to each . In 2019, for example, 187 THPOs received Please support $22 million for Tribal Historic an average of $62,754 in funding . Preservation Officers in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. Collectively, Tribes with NPS-recognized THPOs exercise responsibilities over a land base that exceeds 50 million APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, acres in 30 states . THPOs review federal undertakings— and Related Agencies including projects using federal funding or requiring AGENCY: National Park Service federal approval—for their impacts on tribal historic resources (Section 106 review) . In 2018, THPOs reviewed ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund more than 126,000 federal undertakings and provided ACTIVITY: Grants to Tribes 7,000 National Register of Historic Places (National Register) eligibility opinions . THPOs also survey and Recent Funding History: maintain inventories of tribal historic resources, prepare FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $11.485 million preservation plans, and provide technical assistance FY 2019 Enacted Funding $11.735 million and funding for preservation activities . THPOs facilitate nominations to the National Register, and added 48 FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $13.735 million properties to the National Register and nominated more FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $5.738 million than 8,000 properties to Tribal Registers in 2018 . Along FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $22 million with local, state, and federal law enforcement, THPOs work to prosecute looters of Indian remains and sacred JUSTIFICATION: Tribal Historic Preservation Officers are in objects . They also provide oversight for repatriation per great need of federal funding as the number of THPOs has grown dramatically since the creation of the program. Currently, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation there are nearly 200 THPOs. Increased funding would help Act (NAGPRA) . address significant shortfalls in THPO funding needs.
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Recognized Tribal Historic Preservation Officers*
ALABAMA Wilton Rancheria Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux The Confederated Tribes of Grand Poarch Band of Creek Indians Wiyot Tribe Tribes Ronde Community of Oregon Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Northern Cheyenne Tribe Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ALASKA Yurok Tribe Organized Village of Kake NEBRASKA Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon COLORADO Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Coquille Indian Tribe ARIZONA Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Colorado River Indian Tribes Santee Sioux Nation Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians Gila River Indian Community CONNECTICUT Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Mashantucket Western Pequot Tribal Hopi Tribe of Arizona RHODE ISLAND Nation NEVADA Hualapai Tribe Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Duckwater Shoeshone Tribe of the Narragansett Indian Tribe The Navajo Nation Connecticut Duckwater Reservation Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe SOUTH CAROLINA Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian FLORIDA Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Catawba Indian Nation Community Seminole Tribe of Florida Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California San Carlos Apache Tribe SOUTH DAKOTA Tohono Nation IDAHO NEW MEXICO Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe White Mountain Apache Tribe Coeur d’Alene Tribe Jicarilla Apache Nation Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Nez Perce Tribe Mescalero Apache Tribe Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe CALIFORNIA The Navajo Nation Oglala Sioux Tribe Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians KANSAS Pueblo of Acoma Rosebud Sioux Tribe of Indians Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Rancheria The Pueblo of Isleta Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens LOUISIANA Pueblo of Jemez Yankton Sioux Tribe Valley Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana Pueblo of Laguna UTAH Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana Pueblo of Pojoaque The Navajo Nation Bishop Paiute Tribe Jena Band of Choctaw Indians Pueblo of San Felipe Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe of Indians Pueblo of San Ildefonso Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana WASHINGTON Bridgeport Indian Colony Pueblo of Santa Ana MAINE Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Pueblo of Santa Clara Yakama Nation Indians Aroostook Band of Micmacs Pueblo of Tesuque Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Cahuilla Band of Indians Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians Pueblo of Zia Reservation Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of Passamaquoddy Tribe Zuni Pueblo Confederated Tribes of the Colville the Trinidad Rancheria Penobscot Nation Reservation Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo NEW YORK Hoh Indian Tribe Indians MASSACHUSETTS The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Elem Indian Colony Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head- Seneca Nation of Indians Lummi Nation Elk Valley Rancheria Aquinnah Makah Tribe Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians NORTH CAROLINA MICHIGAN Nooksak Indian Tribe Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe Fort Independence Paiute Indians Bay Mills Indian Community Quinault Indian Nation Habematolel Band of Pomo Indians Keweenaw Bay Indian Community NORTH DAKOTA Samish Indian Nation Hoopa Valley Tribe Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation Superior Chippewa Indians Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe Hopland Band of Pomo Indians Spirit Lake Tribe of Fort Totten Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Skokomish Indian Tribe Jamul Indian Village Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Indians Spokane Tribe of Indians Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Squaxin Island Tribe Stewarts Point Rancheria Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan OKLAHOMA Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians Karuk Tribe Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Manzanita Band of Diegueno Indians Potawatomi Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Suquamish Tribe Mechoopda Band of Chico Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Caddo Nation Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Cherokee Nation Indians of California Michigan Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes WISCONSIN Morongo Band of Mission Indians Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of the Chippewa Pala Band of Mission Indians MINNESOTA Citizen Potawatomi Nation Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians Forest County Potawatomi Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Comanche Nation Community Indians Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Chippewa The Ho-Chunk Nation Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Indians Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Muscogee Creek Nation Superior Chippewa Indians of Pinoleville Pomo Nation Chippewa Osage Nation Wisconsin Pit River Tribe Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Lower Sioux Indian Community Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Superior Chippewa Indians Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma Indians Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Prairie Island Indian Community of Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma Round Valley Indian Tribes Oneida Nation of Wisconsin San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Indians Minnesota Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma (O-Gah- Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Chippewa Indians of California Upper Sioux Community Pah) Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians White Earth Nation of Minnesota of Mohican Indians Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Chippewa Seneca Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma Stewarts Point Rancheria Kashia Band Thlopthlocco Tribal Town WYOMING MONTANA of Pomo Indians Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Susanville Indian Rancheria The Blackfeet Nation Wyandotte Nation Reservation Timbisha Shoshone Tribe Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Northern Arapaho Tribe Boy’s Reservation Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation OREGON Confederated Salish and Kootenai Burns Paiute Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Tribes *As of December 1, 2019: http://nathpo. Indians Confederated Tribes of the Coos, org/wp/thpos/find-a-thpo The Crow Tribe of Indians United Auburn Indian Community Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians Fort Belknap Indian Community
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Civil Rights Grant Programs Building upon the success of the African American Civil Rights Grant Program, the FY 2020 appropriations bill expanded funding to preserve and protect more sites and stories associated with securing civil rights for all Americans . The bill The Pauli Murry House located in Durham, NC, received a grant increased funding for African American Civil Rights to rehabilitate the interior of the home. The space will reopen in grants and created a new $2 .5 million competitive 2020 as a center for social justice. PHOTO BY BARBARA LAU grant program for Civil Rights for All Americans, which includes women, American Latino, Native Background American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Alaska Congress created the African American Civil Rights Grant Program in FY 2016 with an initial appropriation of $8 Native, Native Hawaiian, and LGBTQ Americans . million . Since its inception, the National Park Service has As we look to the centennial of the passage of awarded grants to 133 projects totaling more than $33 the 19th Amendment and beyond, the expansion million across 32 states and the District of Columbia . The of this program can help to elevate the sites and grants fund documentation, survey, planning, education, stories associated with women’s history . interpretation, and bricks and mortar preservation .
FY 2021 Appropriations Request Please support $28 million for Civil Rights Grant Programs, including $20 million for African American Civil Rights Grants and $8 million for Civil Rights for All Americans Grants in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill.
African American Civil Rights Grants Civil Rights for All Americans Grants APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Agencies AGENCY: National Park Service AGENCY: National Park Service ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund ACTIVITY: Competitive grants to document, interpret, and ACTIVITY: Civil rights grant program that would preserve and preserve historical sites associated with the African American highlight the sites and stories associated with securing civil Civil Rights Movement rights for All Americans, including women, American Latino, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and LGBTQ Recent Funding History: Americans FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $13 million FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $14.5 million Recent Funding History: FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $15.5 million FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $2.5 million FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $0 FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $0 FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $20 million FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $8 million
JUSTIFICATION: Increased funding for the African American Civil Rights grants and the new competitive grant program for Civil Rights for All Americans would better protect and interpret important civil rights sites for all Americans. An emphasis on women’s history sites and stories should be a particular focus this year as we commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment.
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Civil Rights Grant Programs: Highlighted Projects
Clayborn Temple, Tennessee (Bricks Rosenwald Schools, Various (Survey, Mountain View Officers’ Club, Arizona and Mortar, Education) Mapping) (Bricks and Mortar) FY 2016 $400,000; FY 2017 FY 2016 $50,000 FY 2017 $500,000 $500,000 and $20,000 The National Trust for Historic Preservation The Arizona Department of Parks will use The City of Memphis received two grants received a grant to inventory and map extant this grant to restore the building’s exterior enabling it to restore the previously shuttered Rosenwald Schools by consolidating existing and key elements of the Dance Hall to their Clayborn Temple, home base of the 1968 statewide surveys into one data set . This 1942 appearance . Currently vacant, the goal Sanitation Worker’s strike that brought Martin project created a baseline for understanding is to reopen the building as a multipurpose Luther King, Jr . to the city . The National Trust the number and location of schools standing, community center . for Historic Preservation also received funding and helped to educate those who seek to to develop an exhibit on Clayborn’s story . support their future preservation . Amelia Boynton Residence, Alabama (Bricks and Mortar) Central High School, Arkansas (Bricks 16th Street Baptist Church, Alabama FY 2018 $500,000 and Mortar) (Bricks and Mortar) 1315 Lapsley Street in Selma, AL, played FY 2016 $499,372; FY 2017 $499,218 FY 2016 $500,000; FY 2017 $500,000 an important role in the African American Little Rock Central High School played a The 16th Street Baptist Church was a key struggle for civil rights in the 20th century . significant role in the desegregation of public meeting place for civil rights rallies led by Booker T . Washington was the first owner of schools when nine African American students Martin Luther King, Jr . as well as the site of the home, followed by the Boynton family, who enrolled in 1957 . The City of Little Rock and the 1963 bombing that killed four young girls used the house as an informal gathering spot the Little Rock School District both received and injured 22 others . The grants will help for civil rights leaders such as Dr . Martin Luther grants to prevent water damage by restoring the church complete phases II and III of its King, Jr, Ambassador Andrew Young, and the exterior of Central High School . preservation efforts, including restoration of Diane Nash . The home is named for Amelia the pews and stained-glass windows . Boynton Robinson, a celebrated activist who Pauli Murray House, North Carolina fought for voting rights in Selma . The grant will (Bricks and Mortar) Isaiah T. Montgomery House, be used to rehabilitate the dilapidated house FY 2016 $237,575 Mississippi (Bricks and Mortar) and transform it into a public space that will The Pauli Murray Center for Historic and FY 2017 $284,000 interpret the role that Selma and its residents Social Justice received a grant to conduct an Isaiah T . Montgomery was born into slavery played in the Civil Rights Movement . extensive interior rehabilitation of the home of and, after the Civil War, helped to establish The African-American Civil Rights and Pauli Murray, an activist for women’s and civil the all-black community of Mound Bayo, Women’s Suffrage Experience in NY, rights, author, priest, educator, and attorney . MS, and fought to secure protections New York (Survey) Murray’s efforts were critical to retaining legal for African Americans under the law . In protections for women against employment 2018, the building was included on the FY 2018 $50,000 discrimination, and her civil rights work led National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 The City of Mount Vernon received a grant to the creation of the National Organization Most Endangered Historic Places list . The that will help them identify, evaluate, and for Women (NOW) . The National Historic Mississippi Heritage Trust will use the NPS nominate historic sites, events, locations, Landmark is scheduled to reopen this year as grant to stabilize and rehabilitate the home . and people that tell the stories of women’s a modern center for social justice . struggle for suffrage and African Americans’ struggles for civil rights in the area . The 16th Street Baptist Church Vancouver Avenue First Baptist was a key meeting Church, Oregon (Bricks and Mortar) place for civil rights FY 2018 $350,000 rallies led by Martin Funding from the NPS and the National Luther King, Jr. as Trust for Historic Preservation’s National well as the site of Fund for Sacred Spaces program will allow the 1963 bombing the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church that killed four congregation to restore the church and young girls and renovate community spaces, install energy- injured 22 others. efficient equipment, and improve accessibility . PHOTO BY MARK SANDLIN The church played a leading role in the region during the Civil Rights Movement and is one of the last remaining landmarks of the black community that once thrived in that area .
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Underrepresented Community Grant Program The Underrepresented Community Grant Program is a small but important program that enables the National Park Service (NPS) to better recognize, preserve, and interpret the stories of historically disenfranchised and underrepresented groups . Grants support projects to survey, inventory, and nominate new sites or amend previous listings to increase diversity represented in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) and as National Historic Landmarks (NHL) . Augusta Chissell and Margaret Hawkins As we approach the centennial of the passage of the 19th were important African American leaders of the women’s suffrage movement in Amendment and beyond, the Underrepresented Community Baltimore City in the early twentieth century. Grant Program can help improve the recognition of women’s Chissell, her neighbor Margaret Hawkins, and activist Estelle Young were part of a sites and stories on the National Register . black middle class who lived and worked in neighborhoods now part of the Old West Baltimore Historic District. The close proximity of these organizations’ members, FY 2021 Appropriations Request driven by residential segregation, made it convenient for them to hold meetings in Please support $1 million for the Underrepresented Community Grant their homes along Druid Hill Avenue. PHOTO COURTESY MARK YOUNG Program in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill.
Background APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies The National Register and NHLs are AGENCY: National Park Service inventories of the nation’s historic ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund and archaeological places considered ACTIVITY: Competitive grants for the survey and nomination of properties “worthy of preservation ”. Yet, these to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks associated with communities currently underrepresented repositories do not tell the stories of all Americans . The FY 2014 federal budget justification for the NPS notes Recent Funding History: that less than 8% of National Register FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $500,000 and NHL designations reflect diverse FY 2019 Enacted Funding $750,000 stories . This competitive grant FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $750,000 program was created to better FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $0 recognize places that tell a richer FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $1 million American story, including women, JUSTIFICATION: Increased funding for the Underrepresented Community African American, Asian American, Grant Program will further protect and interpret America’s diverse heritage and American Indian, American Latino, support economic opportunities in local communities. It would also allow for more nominations to the National Register or NHL, or amendments to existing Native Alaskan, Native Hawaiian, and nominations to be more inclusive. An emphasis on women’s history should be a LGBTQ sites and stories . particular focus this year.
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Underrepresented Community Grant Program: Highlighted Projects
Organized Village of Kake Historic Context for Women’s Nomination Project, Alaska Suffrage and Social History in Nevada, FY 2015 $33,153 Nevada The NN Cannery History Project FY 2018 $46,415 was created to preserve the The Nevada State Historic Preservation stories of the diverse and often Office (NVSHPO) will use this grant to underrecognized cannery conduct archival research and outreach to workers who labored at the women’s organizations in Nevada to draft old NN Cannery, Alaska’s most a report of women’s history in the state, important salmon fishery . This with an emphasis on suffrage and women grant was used to nominate in leadership . They will also use this report the Diamond NN Cannery to identify places that tell a woman’s story Maritime Historic District to the with the goal to nominate a site to the National Register and organize National Register . The NVSHPO is currently a Digital Storytelling Workshop seeking subgrant proposals to complete this in Naknek with Bristol Bay High important work . School students . California Mission System Project, 1927 Coffee Time at Nushagak at the NN Cannery in Rio Vista Farm Historic California South Naknek, Alaska. District National Historic PHOTO COURTESY ALASKA PACKERS ASSOCIATION RECORDS, CENTER FY 2017 $41,872 FOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST STUDIES ARCHIVE, WESTERN WASHINGTON Landmark, Texas UNIVERSITY, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON The State of California will use this grant FY 2016 $19,800 to submit National Register nominations of The Rio Vista Farm became a missions built along the El Camino Real—the Tribal and Pueblo Nations processing center for the Bracero Program, California Mission Trail—to tell a fuller story Preservation Summit and a program that brought skilled Mexican of Native American interactions with the Computerized Survey App, guest-workers to address farm laborer mission system . New Mexico shortages in America between 1942 and FY 2014 $59,620 1962 . The $19,800 grant will enable the City of Socorro to nominate this significant but New York City LGBT Historic Sites The New Mexico Historic Preservation overlooked site as an NHL . Survey and Nomination Project, New Division completed two projects with a York matching grant from the NPS: 1) Led a FY18 $25,000; FY16 $49,999; FY14 Tribal Symposium to explore Pueblo historic Women’s Suffrage Sites Nomination $49,999 preservation and cultural resource issues; Project, Maryland and 2) Developed a software program that Over the years, the New York State FY 2017 $30,500 would make it easier for tribes to record Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic eligible or listed historic resources . Over the last four years, the Maryland Preservation has received multiple grants Historical Trust (MHT) has undertaken to support the NYC LGBT Sites Program, a multi-year, multi-phased survey and an effort to expand public recognition of Identifying Montana’s African research project documenting the women’s sites associated with LGBTQ communities American Heritage Places, Montana suffrage movement in Maryland . As part of in New York City . As of December 2019, six FY 2014 $27,788 this effort, MHT will list or update districts properties have been successfully added to and individual properties in the National the National Register and nearly 250 sites The Montana State Historic Preservation Register, as well as prepare new or updated across the city have been documented . Officer received funding to research and Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties nominate sites related to the African forms . The Fifth Regiment Armory in American experience in Montana, Baltimore, the houses of Margaret G . particularly in Helena . Hawkins and Augusta T . Chissell at 1532 and 1534 Druid Hill Avenue, and the Army of the Hudson Hike from New York to Washington, DC, are just a few examples of this documentation work .
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Historically Black Colleges and Universities Grant Program Since Reconstruction, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have provided African Americans with greater access to higher education and told the story of the struggle for social justice . With competing fiscal priorities on HBCU campuses, dedicated and consistent funding is crucial for many institutions to complete projects that improve the quality of education and campus life and protect significant
historic assets . This competitive grant program has played A HBCU grant enabled Spelman College, a a critical role in safeguarding historic and architectural historically all-women’s college, to successfully rehabilitate the second oldest building on treasures on HBCU campuses . campus to accommodate modern needs. PHOTO BY LYNN MCGILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Background The HBCU Grant Program was FY 2021 Appropriations Request enacted in 1996 and competitive grants were awarded to projects Please support $10 million for the Historically Black Colleges “honoring and preserving the unique and Universities Grant Program in the FY 2021 Interior and important role [HBCUs] played Appropriations bill. in advancing the realization of a more free, equal, and just society ”. APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies However, appropriations for the AGENCY: National Park Service program lapsed in FY 2009 . Nearly ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund a decade later, Congress again funded this critical program with ACTIVITY: Grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities an appropriation of $4 million in FY 2017 . Recently passed legislation Recent Funding History: extends the authorization of this FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $5 million program to FY 2025 . The program FY 2019 Enacted Funding $8 million supports projects that help to FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $10 million preserve historic structures on FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $8 million HBCU campuses that are either FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $10 million listed on the National Register of Historic Places individually or JUSTIFICATION: Full funding for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities contribute to a National Historic Grant Program will further protect and interpret America’s diverse heritage and demonstrate a clear investment in education for underrepresented communities District . and in our nationally significant historic fabric.
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HBCU Grant Program: Highlighted Projects
Harris-Stowe State University, Missouri $500,000 The Vashon Community Center building served as one of the few public recreational facilities open to African Americans when it was built in 1936 . Currently used for storage, the $500,000 HBCU grant along with $1 .2 million from the state of Missouri will allow Harris-Stowe State University to rehabilitate the space and reopen it to the public . The university plans to house the Don and Heide Wolffe Jazz Institute and the National Black Radio Hall of Fame in the refurbished building .
Bennett College for Women, North Carolina Bennett College was part of the fourth round of NPS grant recipients in FY 2004 . The grant was used to rehabilitate Black Hall, named for Ethel F . Black, a trustee of the school . Black Hall houses the Bennett College Micro- Laboratory for Effective Teaching . Built in 1939, Founders Library at Howard University houses one of the world’s largest collections on the African American experience. South Carolina State University, PHOTO BY ERROL S . WATKIS, HOWARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES South Carolina $500,000 Howard University, Washington, DC Fisk University, Tennessee This grant will help stabilize Wilkinson Hall by repairing stone and brick work, $500,000 $442,400 rehabilitation windows and gutters, and Built in 1939, Founders Library serves as In 2004, Fisk University received a grant waterproofing the building . Wilkinson Hall the main library for students of Howard to begin restoration efforts on the John was constructed in 1938 as the college’s University and also served a key role in the Weasley Work House, the Victorian home first separate library building and is part of Howard National Historic Landmark District of John W . Work III . A composer and the South Carolina State National Register designation . This project will improve ethnomusicologist, Work taught at Fisk Historic District . accessibility for all students and visitors University and was one of the first academic while preserving the historic fabric of the scholars of rural African American folk building . music . The restoration was completed in 2011 by the nation’s largest African-American owned and operated architecture firm . Tougaloo College, Mississippi $270,000 Spelman College, Georgia Tougaloo College has received several competitive grants to restore historically Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist significant buildings on its campus . Most Female Seminary, Spelman College is recently, the school received funding to one of two all-women HBCUs . Packard rehabilitate the interior of the John W . Boddie Hall is the second oldest building on House . Located prominently on campus, campus and originally housed classrooms the mansion served as the residence of the and administrative offices before being college’s first president, the first classrooms, converted into a dormitory . The grant from the National Park Service helped fund an and later as a dormitory for faculty and The John Wesley Work Home at Fisk extensive project, which included restoring students . University. Work moved into the house the exterior of the building, adapting the in 1937 and served as a composer and space from a dormitory to administrative teacher at Fisk for 39 years. offices, and adding stair wings . PHOTO BY BRENT MOORE
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Save America’s Treasures The Save America’s Treasures (SAT) competitive grant program preserves our nation’s most significant historic and cultural resources . Grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on historic districts, buildings, sites, and objects as well as collections, including artifacts, museum collections, documents, and works of art . Through funded projects and community engagement, SAT In 2002, the Susan B. Anthony House received a matching grants enable a richer and more diverse American $300,000 SAT grant to repair the exterior walls and foundation, construct a new roof and gutters, and install updated heating, history to be told . As we look to the centennial of cooling, security, and electrical systems. the passage of the 19th Amendment and beyond, PHOTO BY WALTER COLLEY the Save America’s Treasures program can help to elevate the sites and stories associated with FY 2021 Appropriations Request women’s history .
Background Please support $18 million for the Save America’s Treasures program in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. Created in 1998 by Executive Order, the Save America’s Treasures APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies program provides funding both AGENCY: National Park Service for preservation projects and collections work . The National ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund Park Service (NPS) administers the ACTIVITY: Save America’s Treasures grants program in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Recent Funding History: Services, the National Endowment FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $13 million for the Humanities, and the National FY 2019 Enacted Funding $13 million Endowment for the Arts . Unlike FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $16 million many other federal competitive grant FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $0 programs, the SAT program requires FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $18 million dollar-for-dollar private matching funds . Since 1999, there have been more than 4,000 requests for JUSTIFICATION: Over the life of the program, application requests have far outpaced available federal support. Increased funding is needed to help restore support totaling $1 .54 billion . Thus far, and conserve our nationally significant structures, collections, and artifacts. This the NPS has provided $340 million to year as we commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, an emphasis on women’s history sites and stories should be a particular focus. more than 1,300 worthy projects .
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Save America’s Treasures Grant Awards by State and Territory, FY 1999–FY 2017
The SAT grant program’s completed restoration and preservation projects include the Star-Spangled Banner that flew above Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 and that now hangs in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History; the poems carved by Chinese immigrants into the walls of Angel Island; Mesa Verde’s cliff dwellings and its collections of Native American artifacts; the complex at Fort Snelling; and Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church . Many women’s history sites and stories have also benefited from the funding opportunities provided by the SAT grant program . Several restoration and preservation projects include the Harriet Tubman House in Auburn, NY; the Sewall-Belmont House in Washington, DC; the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago, IL; and the archival conservation of collections of the Women’s Building in Los Angeles, CA .
Alabama: $9,356,202 Missouri: $4,676,362 Alaska: $3,482,832 Montana: $3,581,544 Arizona: $4,635,186 Nebraska: $1,399,000 Arkansas: $4,005,032 Nevada: $3,695,942 California: $17,488,686 New Hampshire: $2,454,071 Colorado: $5,244,954 New Jersey: $4,089,630 Connecticut: $7,153,764 New Mexico: $6,337,491 Delaware: $2,743,305 New York: $33,244,388 District of Columbia: North Carolina: $3,568,097 $13,519,001 North Dakota: $1,076,551 Florida: $5,983,880 Ohio: $12,719,229 Georgia: $5,626,019 Oklahoma: $2,091,361 Hawaii: $1,542,713 Oregon: $2,453,696 Idaho: $838,000 Pennsylvania: $34,996,590 Illinois: $6,650,918 Puerto Rico: $950,456 In 2006, the Farnsworth House received funding to support Indiana: $3,305,020 flood abatement and exterior repairs. The building was designed Rhode Island: $6,381,519 Iowa: $4,769,519 and built by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Dr. Edith South Carolina: $5,757,222 Farnsworth, a physician and medical researcher. The house is Kansas: $2,494,599 now owned and managed by the National Trust for Historic South Dakota: $2,054,079 Preservation. Kentucky: $6,492,220 Tennessee: $2,273,359 PHOTO BY MIKE CREWS Louisiana: $2,744,017 Texas: $9,186,859 Maine: $2,013,990 Utah: $1,619,000 Maryland: $6,927,330 Vermont: $6,339,505 Massachusetts: $13,093,247 Virginia: $8,634,778 Michigan: $4,050,383 Washington: $5,988,040 Midway Islands: $ 308,681 West Virginia: $6,030,562 Minnesota: $3,784,712 Wisconsin: $5,783,810 Mississippi: $7,179,500 Wyoming: $985,000
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants The Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program provides competitive grants to revive historic properties in rural communities across America . The program was created in the FY 2018 omnibus After a fire in 2008 nearly destroyed the historic Putney spending bill with a $5 million congressional General Store, a $160,000 grant from the Village appropriation . Formerly known as the Revitalization Initiative (VRI) allowed the community to rebuild the store. The HRSP is modeled after the VRI. Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program, PHOTO BY PUTNEY GENERAL STORE the grant program was renamed in honor of Paul Bruhn, the former executive director In August 2019, the Preservation Trust of Vermont became one of the inaugural recipients of a Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization of the Preservation Trust of Vermont . The Grant. Since then, they have awarded subgrants to seven community projects throughout the state. The Opera House at Enosburg Falls first round of grants was awarded to nine received a grant to improve accessibility, paint the exterior, and recipients in August of 2019 . address several immediate repair needs. PHOTO COURTESY PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT
Background The Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization FY 2021 Appropriations Request Grants are designed to foster Please support $10 million for the Paul Bruhn Historic economic development while Revitalization Grant Program in the FY 2021 Interior preserving the history of rural Appropriations bill. communities by awarding grants of $100,000 to $750,000 to rehabilitate APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies historic properties of significance AGENCY: National Park Service in areas defined as rural by the Historic Preservation Fund U S. . Census (population less than ACCOUNT: 50,000) . Under the program, eligible ACTIVITY: Historic Revitalization Grants grantees receive funds that are then subgranted to organizations Recent Funding History: for bricks and mortar preservation FY 2018 Enacted Funding $5 million projects at National Register Historic FY 2019 Enacted Funding $5 million Sites . The program is modeled FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $7.5 million after the state of Vermont’s highly FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $0 successful Village Revitalization FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $10 million Initiative (VRI), a partnership between the U S. . Department of JUSTIFICATION: Historic revitalization grants invest in preserving the unique Housing and Urban Development and cultures of the nation’s rural communities, fostering economic development and creating jobs. the Preservation Trust of Vermont .
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Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant Program In its first year of funding, the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant Program provided $5 million in grants to nine projects that support the preservation of historic buildings in rural communities across the United States .
Alaska Vermont City and Borough of Sitka The Preservation Trust of $238,033 Vermont Historic Rehabilitation of National $747,000 Register Properties in Sitka Historic Restoration Subgrant Program of Vermont Louisiana Louisiana Office of Cultural West Virginia Development West Virginia Department $662,000 of Arts, Culture, and History Rehabilitation of Commercial $350,000 Structures in Louisiana’s Main West Virginia Historic Street District Revitalization Subgrant Program
Maine Nationwide Maine Development National Main Street Center, Foundation Inc. $750,000 $746,900 REvitalizeME Main Street Façade Improvement Grant Program Montana The National Main Street Center is a subsidiary of the National Trust Montana Historical Society for Historic Preservation. $391,067 Revitalizing Montana’s Rural Heritage
Oregon Oregon Parks and Recreation Department $665,000 In August 2019, the National Main Street Center became Oregon Historic Theaters Subgrant one of the inaugural recipients of the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant Program. Launched in January 2020, Program the NPS Main Street Facade Improvement Grant Program, made possible by a $746,900 grant, will offer façade Rhode Island improvement grants in 12 rural Main Street communities in four states across the country. In the 12 selected Town of Glocester communities, Main Street America will provide Main Street $250,000 building and business owners with grants of up to $25,000 Chepachet Village Historic District each. The before and after photos showcase a similar improvement project on Main Street Texarkana, TX, with Subgrant Program support from the 1772 Foundation and Texas Main Street. PHOTOS BY WILLIAM H . SCURLOCK
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Deferred Maintenance
The National Park Service (NPS) preserves a network of 419 parks and sites that protect spectacular historic, cultural, and natural resources and tell the stories of remarkable people and events in our nation’s history . The size and complexity of NPS infrastructure and its mission to preserve our parks’ resources represent a significant challenge . Unfortunately, In 2014, the National Trust for Historic Preservation launched the HOPE Crew (Hands-On Preservation Experience) to assist the NPS after more than 100 years of operation and with reducing the maintenance backlog of historic properties. Here, young volunteers help to restore historic buildings at the inconsistent public funding, the National Park Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in Fort System faces a deferred maintenance backlog Hancock, NJ. PHOTO BY DUNCAN KENDALL estimated at $11 .9 billion and, according to FY 2018 data, 47% of the backlog is attributed to FY 2021 Appropriations Request historic assets . Please support $283 million for NPS Line-Item Construction Projects, $150 million for Repair and Rehabilitation, and Background $188 million for Cyclic Maintenance in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. Each year, Congress appropriates funds for three principal accounts APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies that help address the backlog of repairs—or deferred maintenance— AGENCY: National Park Service of the National Park Service . Line- ACCOUNT: Construction (Line Item) Item Construction funds major ONPS, Facilities, Operations, and Maintenance rehabilitation and replacement projects that cost $1 million or more . NPS DEFERRED FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2021 MAINTENANCE ENACTED ENACTED ENACTED PRESIDENT’S NTHP Repair and Rehabilitation projects REQUEST RECOMMENDATION are large-scale, non-recurring needs Line-Item Construction $137 011. $147 011. $282 956. $131 788. $283 that cost less than $1 million and Repair and where scheduled maintenance is no Rehabilitation $134 461. $135 980. $135 950. $121 08. 7 $150 longer sufficient . Cyclic Maintenance Cyclic includes periodically scheduled Maintenance $141 575. $151 575. $153 575. $188 184. $188 upkeep and repairs . IN MILLIONS JUSTIFICATION: An increase to annual appropriations is necessary to address the deferred maintenance backlog and prevent historic and cultural resources from permanent damage or loss. Reliable, dedicated funding like that proposed in the Restore Our Parks Act is also necessary to offset decades of underfunding in these accounts.
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After decades of inconsistent public funding, the deferred maintenance backlog has ballooned to nearly $12 billion, putting irreplaceable historic and cultural artifacts at risk of permanent damage or loss. Without robust funding, the condition of these assets will continue to deteriorate and become more expensive to repair and preserve in the future. Reliable, dedicated funding will preserve the ability for Americans and international visitors to enjoy and experience iconic historic resources and natural wonders on federal lands.
The National Mall Tidal Basin is threatened by as much as $500 million in deferred maintenance needs. Daily flooding, crumbling infrastructure, and damaged cherry tree roots threaten the integrity of one of America’s most iconic places. In April 2019, the National Trust for Historic Preservation launched the National Mall Tidal Basin National Treasure in partnership with the Trust for the National Mall. PHOTOS BY SAM KITTNER
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Affiliated Areas Congress and the Secretary of the Interior have designated 25 National Park Service (NPS) affiliated areas to recognize significant properties and sites that enhance the portfolio of the National Park System . Typically owned The most recently designated NPS affiliated area (2019), Parker’s and managed by nonfederal entities, many of Crossroads Battlefield in west Tennessee is a historic Civil War battlefield where Confederate soldiers clashed with Union troops these unique places interpret our nation’s history in 1862. via strategic partnerships forged with the NPS . PHOTO BY PARKER’S CROSSROADS BATTLEFIELD ASSOCIATION
Background and interpret the rich history of our A partnership between the NPS and Preservation Virginia interprets Affiliated areas are linked in nation . For example, the Jamestown the history of the first permanent importance and purpose to the National Historic Site, designated English settlement in North America . larger National Park System of in 1940, was the first affiliated area . 419 units . While many of these sites receive technical or financial assistance from the NPS, they are FY 2021 Appropriations Request typically administered by state, Please support $6.1 million for National Park System Affiliated local, or private entities, which Areas in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. retain their ownership of the site .
APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Currently there are 25 affiliated AGENCY: National Park Service areas that were established ACCOUNT: Operation of the National Park System legislatively and in some cases through administrative action by the ACTIVITY: Affiliated Areas Secretary of the Interior under the authority of the Historic Sites Act of Recent Funding History: 1935 . Affiliated areas typically have FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $5.551 million a management plan or cooperative FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $5.535 million agreement with the NPS that defines FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $5.590 million the scope of collaboration . FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $5.225 million FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $6.1 million The diverse portfolio of NPS JUSTIFICATION: In order to qualify for federal funding, Congress must affiliated areas ranges from a specifically appropriate funding for an individual site and there are currently singular statue of Ben Franklin in only 8 affiliated areas that receive an appropriation. NPS affiliated areas provide significant sites with an opportunity to benefit from a relationship Philadelphia to over a million acres with the NPS, which includes greater publicity that in turn can translate at the Pinelands National Reserve into economic benefits for a community. Affiliated areas do not contribute to the NPS deferred maintenance backlog and provide visitors with unique in New Jersey . In many cases, the experiences and educational opportunities. affiliated areas are titled national historic sites or national memorials
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum An affiliated area of the National Park System and a site of the National
Trust for Historic Preservation, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum LEFT: Paul Krugman of the New York preserves and interprets the history and legacy of immigration in America . Times wrote, “When you tour the [Tenement Museum], you come away At the heart of the museum is a historic tenement, home to an estimated with a powerful sense of immigration as a 7,000 people from over 20 nations between 1863 and 1935 . The museum human experience…” engages visitors through the personal experiences of immigrants for whom PHOTO BY TRAVIS ROOZEE Manhattan’s Lower East Side became home and enhances appreciation for RIGHT: The front facade of 97 Orchard Street, the Museum’s national landmark the profound role immigration has played and continues to play in shaping 1863 tenement. America’s evolving national identity . PHOTO BY KEIKO NIWA
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Cultural Programs The National Park Service (NPS) administers many of our nation’s most significant historic preservation programs that help tell a fuller story of our history . Within its cultural programs, the NPS manages the National Register of Historic Places (National Register), certifies federal Historic Tax Credit projects, coordinates federal archaeology programs, and provides funding through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Grants, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants, The M’Clintock House in Waterloo, New York was the site where and American Battlefield Protection Program the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted for the First Women’s Assistance Grants . Rights Convention. PHOTO BY KEN LUND
Background NPS Cultural Programs support FY 2021 Appropriations Request preservation of our cultural heritage through: Please support $32.627 million for NPS Cultural Programs in the • National Register of Historic FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. Places • National Historic Landmarks APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Program • Heritage documentation AGENCY: National Park Service programs ACCOUNT: National Recreation and Preservation • Technical Preservation Services ACTIVITY: Cultural Programs that administers the federal Historic Tax Credit Recent Funding History: • National Center for Preservation FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $25.062 million Technology and Training FY 2019 Enacted Funding $25.562 million • Native American Graves FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $31.127 million Protection and Repatriation FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $20.648 million (NAGPRA) Grants FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $32.627 million • Japanese American Confinement Site Grants JUSTIFICATION: The National Park Service’s Cultural Programs implement • American Battlefield Protection our nation’s historic preservation laws and benefit local economies. Increased funding will maintain and improve access to the National Register, including Program Assistance Grants modernizing its information system. It will also support ongoing demands to • Grants Administration review and approve federal historic tax credits, and administer expanded grant programs.
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NPS Cultural Programs Highlights
About the National Register of Historic Places Recent National Historic Landmark Theme Studies The National Register is the official list of the nation’s • Finding A Path Forward: Asian American Pacific historic places worthy of preservation . More than Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study 93,000 sites and 1 8. million contributing resources are (2018) listed . • The Era of Reconstruction: 1861-1900 (2017) • LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, About the Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) Transgender, and Queer History (2016) The federal Historic Tax Credit provides incentives to • American Latino Heritage (2013) catalyze economic development through the reuse • Japanese Americans in World War II (2012) of America’s historic buildings . The credit applies to • American Aviation Heritage: Identifying and certified historic structures either listed individually on Evaluating Nationally Significant Properties in U S. . the National Register or contributing to the character Aviation History (2011) of a National Register-listed Historic District . The tax • Protecting America: Cold War Defensive Sites Theme credit is available for any income producing property, Study (draft 2011) including residential rental projects . The credit generates new economic activity by leveraging private Renovation of the former Shenandoah Hotel in Martinsburg, WV, will provide residential and commercial space to the community, dollars—$162 billion since inception—to preserve reactivating the commercial corridor. The project combines the historic buildings and create jobs . Through 2018, the federal Historic Tax Credit and the New Markets Tax Credit, and developers are working in close coordination with the local Main rehabilitation of more than 44,000 historic buildings Street program ensure the needs of the community are met. has created more than 2 7. million jobs . PHOTO COURTESY BRIAN WISHNEFF & ASSOCIATES
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International Park Affairs, Office of International Affairs The United States was the world leader in the creation of the World Heritage Program in 1972 and was the first to ratify the Convention in 1973 . Yellowstone National Park and Mesa Verde The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright sites inscribed on the UNESCO National Park were among the first 12 sites World Heritage List in 2019. The other sites include the Unity inscribed on the World Heritage List . In 2019, Temple and the Frederick C. Robie House, both in Illinois; Taliesin and the Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House, both in eight Frank Lloyd Wright sites spanning the Wisconsin; the Hollyhock House in California; Fallingwater in Pennsylvania; and Taliesin West in Arizona. PHOTO BY DAVID HEALD country were inscribed .
Background FY 2021 Appropriations Request The Office of International Affairs (OIA) within the National Park Please support $2 million for International Park Affairs, including Service (NPS) works to protect the Office of International Affairs, in the FY 2021 Interior and enhance parks, protected Appropriations bill. areas, and cultural sites with outstanding cultural and natural APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies resources and critical habitats . AGENCY: National Park Service Among other responsibilities, National Recreation and Preservation OIA responds to issues relating ACCOUNT: to existing World Heritage sites in ACTIVITY: International Park Affairs, Office of International Affairs the United States, 18 of which are managed by the NPS . Recent Funding History: FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $1.648 million ($972,000 for the Office of International Affairs) OIA is also responsible for FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $1.648 million ($972,000 for selecting sites for the World the Office of International Affairs) Heritage Tentative List and FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $1.903 million shepherding them through the FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $1 million detailed nomination process . FY 2021 NTHP Recomendation: $2 million Examples include Hopewell
Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio; JUSTIFICATION: A modest increase in funding for Office of International Affairs Big Bend National Park in Texas; within International Park Affairs is necessary to ensure robust engagement in and Civil Rights Movement Sites the World Heritage Program and support the dozens of communities and sites across the country seeking nomination to the World Heritage List. Inclusion in in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, the World Heritage List brings communities and sites substantial social, cultural, and Mississippi . and economic benefits. The World Heritage Program builds mutual respect for the cultural and natural heritage and peaceful coexistence of all humanity. Congress should again reject proposals to shift the Southwest Border Resource Protection Program into the Office of International Affairs and drastically reduce overall program funding.
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Current U.S. World Heritage Tentative List
CULTURAL SITES NATURAL SITES
Brooklyn Bridge, New York Big Bend National Park, Texas
Central Park, New York California Current Conservation Complex, California • California Coastal National Monument Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama [other sites to be considered for inclusion] • Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary • Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, • Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Montgomery • Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary • Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham • Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge • 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham • Point Reyes National Seashore Dayton Aviation Sites, Ohio • Golden Gate National Recreation Area • Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Marianas Trench National Monument, U .S . Territory, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam Early Chicago Skyscrapers, Illinois [other properties may be added] National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa/Rose Atoll • The Rookery National Marine Monument (Formerly Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary) • Auditorium Building • Monadnock Building Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia • Ludington Building Pacific Remote Islands National Monument, U .S . Territorial • Marquette Building Waters • Old Colony Building Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona • Schlesinger & Mayer (Carson, Pirie Scott) Department Store White Sands National Monument, New Mexico • Second Leiter Building • Fisher Building
Ellis Island, New Jersey and New York
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio • Fort Ancient State Memorial • Hopewell Culture National Historical Park • Newark Earthworks State Historic Site
Moravian Bethlehem District, Pennsylvania (an extension to Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement, Denmark)
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Serpent Mound, Ohio
Thomas Jefferson Buildings, Virginia (an extension to the Monticello and the University of Virginia Historic District) The U.S. World Heritage Tentative List includes a proposal to • Poplar Forest inscribe sites associated with Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Native American cultures flourished • Virginia State Capitol in this region and created a rich network of economic, political, and spiritual practices and constructed remarkable earthworks, such as the Mound City Group (pictured above). PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE/TOM ENBERG
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National Heritage Areas
Congress has designated 55 National Heritage Areas (NHAs) to recognize the unique national significance of a region’s sites and history . Through partnerships with the National Park Service (NPS), National Heritage Areas provide community-driven heritage conservation that tells America’s stories .
Burnside Bridge at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland is part of the Journey Through Hallowed Grounds National Heritage Area. The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history. The battle ended the FY 2021 Appropriations Request Confederate Army’s first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Please support $32 million for National Heritage Areas in the PHOTO BY JEN GOELLNITZ FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill.
Background APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies National Heritage Areas are AGENCY: National Park Service partnerships among the National ACCOUNT: National Recreation and Preservation Park Service, states, and local ACTIVITY: Heritage Partnership Programs/National Heritage Areas communities, in which the NPS supports state and local Recent Funding History: conservation through federal FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $20.321 million recognition, seed money, and FY 2019 Enacted Funding $20.321 million technical assistance . NHAs are FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $21.944 million designated by individual legislation FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $398,000 with specific provisions for operation unique to the area’s specific FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $32 million resources and desired goals . NHAs JUSTIFICATION: According to the National Park Service, NHAs leverage an are often organized around a theme, average of $5.50 for every $1 of federal investment to create jobs, generate local industry, and/or geographic feature government revenue, and sustain local communities through revitalization and heritage tourism. NHAs may be managed by federal commissions, nonprofit that has influenced our national groups, universities, and state agencies or municipal authorities, guided by culture and history . Lands within a management plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Through this NHAs remain in state, local, private partnership strategy, heritage areas combine historic preservation, cultural, natural resource conservation, local and regional preservation planning, and ownership, or a combination thereof . heritage education and tourism. This activity includes commissions and grants NHA designation does not affect to the 55 individual NHAs, as well as administrative support for coordination, guidance, assistance, and training. Funding has lagged far behind the needs and private property rights . popularity of the program.
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National Heritage Areas by State
ALABAMA MARYLAND NORTH DAKOTA Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area Northern Plains National Heritage Area Baltimore National Heritage Area (MD, WV) ALASKA OHIO Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area (MD, PA, VA, WV) Heritage Area National Aviation Heritage Area MASSACHUSETTS ARIZONA PENNSYLVANIA Essex National Heritage Area Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Freedom's Way National Heritage Area (MA, NH) Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Journey Through Hallowed Ground National John H . Chafee Blackstone River Valley Heritage Area (MD, PA, VA, WV) National Heritage Corridor (MA, RI) CALIFORNIA Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National The Last Green Valley National Heritage Oil Region National Heritage Area Heritage Area Corridor (CT, MA) Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area COLORADO Area (CT, MA) Schuylkill River Greenways National Heritage Area Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Area Susquehanna National Heritage Area MICHIGAN Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area MotorCities National Heritage Area RHODE ISLAND South Park National Heritage Area John H . Chafee Blackstone River Valley MISSISSIPPI CONNECTICUT National Heritage Corridor (MA, RI) Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area The Last Green Valley National Heritage SOUTH CAROLINA Corridor (CT, MA) Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage (FL, GA, NC, SC) Area (CT, MA) MISSOURI South Carolina National Heritage Corridor FLORIDA Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area (KS, MO) TENNESSEE Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (FL, Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area GA, NC, SC) NEVADA GEORGIA Great Basin National Heritage Area (NV, UT) UTAH Great Basin National Heritage Area (NV, UT) Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area NEW JERSEY Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area Augusta Canal National Heritage Area Crossroads of the American Revolution Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (FL, National Heritage Area VERMONT GA, NC, SC) Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership NEW HAMPSHIRE IOWA (NY, VT) Freedom's Way National Heritage Area (MA, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area NH) VIRGINIA ILLINOIS Journey Through Hallowed Ground National NEW MEXICO Heritage Area (MD, PA, VA, WV) Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Historic District Corridor NEW YORK Champlain Valley National Heritage WASHINGTON KANSAS Partnership (NY, VT) Maritime Washington National Heritage Area Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Mountains to Sound Greenway National (KS, MO) Maurice D . Hinchey Hudson River Valley Heritage Area LOUISIANA National Heritage Area WEST VIRGINIA Atchafalaya National Heritage Area Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area Cane River National Heritage Area NORTH CAROLINA (MD, WV) Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area (MD, PA, VA, WV) Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (FL, Information compiled from: https://www.nps. GA, NC, SC) National Coal Heritage Area gov/subjects/heritageareas/visit_nhas_online. htm Wheeling National Heritage Area
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OTHER PROGRAMS The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program commemorates significant events and people associated with the Underground Railroad as part of the early African American civil rights movement . The program not only designates sites to be included in the Network to Freedom listing, Visitors gather outside of the Bucktown Store where but also administers competitive grants to sites, Harriet Tubman was injured as a child. The building is part of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National programs, and facilities listed in the Network to Historical Park in Church Creek, MD. complete preservation and research projects . PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Background In 1998, Congress passed the National Underground Railroad Network to FY 2021 Appropriations Request Freedom Act, which created the Network of Freedom Program to Please support $1 million for grants within the National better commemorate and interpret Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program in the FY the Underground Railroad and those 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. who experienced it . Through the program, the National Park Service APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies partners with local, state, and federal AGENCY: National Park Service agencies as well as private individuals ACCOUNT: ONPS Resource Stewardship and organizations to educate the ACTIVITY: Park Management public, provide technical assistance, SUBACTIVITY: Resource Stewardship—The National Underground and compile and maintain a list of Railroad Network to Freedom Program sites and programs related to the Underground Railroad . The Network Recent Funding History: to Freedom listing now recognizes FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $1 million more than 625 sites in 40 states plus FY 2019 Enacted Funding $849,000 Washington, DC, and the U S. . Virgin Islands . FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $1.109 million FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $1.036 million Between 2002 and 2014, $2 086. FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $1 million million in grants for “preservation and related research” was awarded to 115 JUSTIFICATION: Increased funding for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program would be used for staff support and projects . reestablishment of the Network’s grant program.
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The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Listings by State* The Network to Freedom is composed of sites, facilities, and programs that are important to the commemoration and interpretation of Underground Railroad history .
ALABAMA ILLINOIS MISSOURI 1 site 2 programs 1 site 22 sites ARIZONA NEBRASKA 1 program INDIANA 1 program 5 programs 11 sites ARKANSAS 20 sites 2 programs NEW HAMPSHIRE 2 sites IOWA 1 site 21 sites CALIFORNIA NEW JERSEY 1 facility KANSAS 1 program 4 programs 2 programs 2 sites 3 sites 4 facilities NEW MEXICO 16 sites Located in Boston, MA, the African Meeting COLORADO 1 program House is the oldest known extant black church 1 site KENTUCKY in the country. The meeting house hosted many NEW YORK prominent abolitionists, including Frederick 2 facilities CONNECTICUT 10 facilities Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Now a site 6 programs 1 facility 6 programs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the 2 sites African Meeting House is owned and operated by 1 site 48 sites the Museum of African American History. LOUISIANA PHOTO BY WARREN JAGGER PHOTOGRAPHY DELAWARE NORTH CAROLINA 2 facilities 3 facilities 2 facilities 1 site 2 programs 15 sites 10 sites MAINE SOUTH DAKOTA VIRGINIA OHIO 1 site 8 facilities 3 sites DISTRICT OF 9 facilities 2 programs COLUMBIA TENNESSEE MARYLAND 10 programs 30 sites 1 program 2 facilities 13 facilities 61 sites 2 sites 3 programs 19 programs WEST VIRGINIA 13 sites OKLAHOMA 1 facility 46 sites TEXAS 1 site 1 site 2 programs FLORIDA MASSACHUSETTS PENNSYLVANIA 1 site 2 facilities 6 facilities WISCONSIN 3 programs 14 facilities 1 facility 6 programs VERMONT 5 sites 9 programs 1 program 16 sites 1 site 28 sites 6 sites GEORGIA MICHIGAN VIRGIN ISLANDS 2 facilities RHODE ISLAND 1 facility 1 site 1 facility 4 programs 6 programs 1 program 2 sites 18 sites SOUTH CAROLINA HAWAII MISSISSIPPI 1 facility 1 site 5 sites 4 sites
*As of August 2019
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OTHER PROGRAMS African American Civil Rights Network The African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) program authorizes the National Park Service (NPS) to identify and interpret sites that commemorate and honor the history of the modern civil rights movement (1939-1968) . The AACRN encompasses all NPS units and programs related to the struggle for African American equality as well as places included in or eligible for Mary McLeod Bethune served as activist and educator. Now the National Register of Historic Places and other owned by Bethune-Cookman University, Bethune built this house when she moved to Daytona, FL, to establish a school for girls. directly related sites with permission of the owner . She later served as an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founded the National Council of Negro Women. She lived here until her death in 1955. PHOTO BY EBYABE Background Patterned after the National Underground Railroad to Freedom Network, the African American Civil Rights Network recognizes FY 2021 Appropriations Request sites associated with African American civil rights from 1939 to 1968 . This date range was identified because 1939 was the year Please support $2 million for grant programs within the Marian Anderson sang from the steps of African American Civil Rights Network in the FY 2021 Interior the Lincoln Memorial . Congress passed the Appropriations bill. African American Civil Rights Network Act in December 2017 and it was signed into APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies law in January 2018 . AGENCY: National Park Service ACCOUNT: Operation of the National Park System The AACRN program offers a ACTIVITY: Resource Stewardship, African American Civil Rights comprehensive overview of the people, Network places, and events associated with the civil rights movement of the 20th Recent Funding History: century . Since February 2018, twenty- FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $250,000 eight sites, facilities, and program have FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $250,000 been chosen for inclusion in the AACRN, FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $2 million including: Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas; the Mary McLeod Bethune Home in Florida; Pullman National JUSTIFICATION: Increased funding for the African American Civil Rights Monument in Illinois; and the Leona Tate Network would be used for National Park Service staff, program materials, Foundation for Change in Louisiana . and grant making.
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African American Civil Rights Network: Highlighted Sites
Marian Anderson Mural, Leona Tate Foundation for Washington, DC Change, LA The Marian Anderson mural, located In November 1960, six-year-old in the Department of the Interior, Leona Tate and her classmates was the first site designated under Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost the AACRN . The mural depicts the became the first black students famed opera singer performing at to desegregate a public school the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after in Louisiana . Nearly fifty years she was prevented from singing at later, Tate founded the Leona Tate Constitution Hall due to the color of Foundation for Change dedicated her skin . The concert attracted an to idea that every person is integrated audience of 75,000 and deserving of affordable, comparable became a symbol of the early civil opportunities, particularly in rights movement . education . Now part of the AACRN, the foundation is working to turn the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home old public school that Tate attended National Monument, Jackson, MS into The Tate, Etienne, and Prevost Medgar Evers spent his life fighting (TEP) Interpretive Center . The center for equal rights, including assisting will provide exhibits and programs Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan on New Orleans’ civil rights history, Zinke and honored guests at the black Americans with registering to dedication of the Marian Anderson mural vote, gathering evidence in the case a community educational space, and as an AACRN site. PHOTO BY TAMI HEILEMANN, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of the murder of Emmett Till, and affordable housing for seniors . leading economic boycotts . He was the first field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and he and his wife established the NAACP office in Jackson . After Medgar’s assassination in their home in 1963, Myrlie became the national chairwoman of the NAACP, established the Medgar and Merlie Evers Institute, and worked to bring her husband’s killer to justice .
RIGHT: Activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in the carport of his home in June 1963. The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000 and is also part of the Medgar Evers Historic District and is a designated National Historic Landmark. PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
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OTHER PROGRAMS The Reconstruction Era National Historic Network The Reconstruction Era National Historic Network (Reconstruction Era Network) helps to preserve and interpret sites and stories important to understanding the successes and struggles of African Americans in the decades following the Civil War . All National Park Service (NPS) units and programs connected to
the Reconstruction Era will be included in the Part of the Beaufort National Historic Landmark District in South Network in addition to related sites that apply Carolina, the Old Firehouse now serves as the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park Visitor Center. to join the program . PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE/J . CADOFF
Background In March 2019, legislation created FY 2021 Appropriations Request the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network and redesignated the Reconstruction Era National Please support $2 million for staff and grants within the Monument as the Reconstruction Reconstruction Era Network Program in the FY 2021 Interior Era National Historical Park . Based Appropriations bill. on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom and APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies the African American Civil Rights AGENCY: National Park Service Network, the Reconstruction Era ACCOUNT: ONPS Resource Stewardship Network is administered by the NPS . ACTIVITY: Park Management The Network includes the sites of SUBACTIVITY: Resource Stewardship—The Reconstruction Era the expanded Reconstruction Era National Historic Network National Historical Park, including the Beaufort National Historic Recent Funding History: Landmark District, St . Helena Island, FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $250,000 and Camp Saxton . FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $250,000 FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $2 million
JUSTIFICATION: Funding for the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network would better enable the National Park Service to staff and fund the Network and a grants program.
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ABOVE: Built in 1789, the Barnwell-Gough House is listed on the National Register, contributes to the Beaufort Historic District, and is part of the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park. PHOTO BY ELISA ROLLE
RIGHT: Located on St. Helena Island, the Brick Baptist Church was incorporated into the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park when it was redesignated in March 2019. PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE/J . CADOFF
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Cultural Resources Management The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stewards the largest, most diverse, and most scientifically important body of cultural, historical, and paleontological resources on federal lands . Yet only about 10% of BLM lands have been surveyed for Gold Butte National Monument, which covers nearly 300,000 acres of Mojave Desert landscape in southeastern Nevada, was heritage resources, meaning we have limited data designated in 2016 to preserve the area’s cultural, prehistoric, and historic legacy and maintain its diverse array of natural and about the types and density of cultural resources scientific resources for the benefit of all Americans. that exist on nearly 90% of our public lands . PHOTO COURTESY BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Background This collaboration with state historic for large-scale, cross-jurisdictional preservation offices is one of the land-use projects . It is a significant BLM’s Cultural Resources nation’s most innovative programs and too-often overlooked Management (CRM) program to support predictive modeling and preservation success story . inventories, evaluates, and manages data analysis to enhance planning cultural and paleontological resources on public lands, as well as associated data and museum FY 2021 Appropriations Request collections, for the benefit of the Please support $20.131 million for the Cultural Resources public . The cultural resources Management at the Bureau of Land Management in the FY 2021 program also supports National Interior Appropriations bill. Historic Preservation Act Section 106 review of land-use proposals, APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Section 110 inventory and protection AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management of cultural resources, compliance ACCOUNT: Management of Lands and Resources with the Native American Graves ACTIVITY: Land Resources Protection and Repatriation Act, and SUBACTIVITY: Cultural Resources Management consultation with Tribes and Alaska Native Governments . This work Recent Funding History: includes surveys of sensitive areas, FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $17.131 million site protection, and stabilization FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $17.131 million projects for sites vulnerable to FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $18.631 million unauthorized activities and damage . FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $15.304 million FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $20.131 million National Cultural Resources
Information Management JUSTIFICATION: Increased funding is necessary to fulfill BLM’s statutory System (NCRIMS) requirements for inventory and protection of cultural resources. Funding would also support continued implementation of the BLM’s National In FY 2020, Congress provided $1 .5 Cultural Resources Information Management System. Digitizing and million in dedicated funding for the standardizing data promotes consideration of cultural resources early in the planning process to inform siting decisions, reduce potential conflicts BLM’s National Cultural Resources with cultural resources, and facilitates more efficient planning and project Information Management System . implementation.
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ABOVE: The Largo Schoolhouse Pueblito is part of the Pueblitos of Dinétah in New Mexico that were constructed in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. PHOTO COURTESY BLM NEW MEXICO
LEFT: The Garnet Ghost Town in Montana features more than 25 historic buildings along with historic mining features dating back to the 1890s. PHOTO BY BOB WICK/BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Cultural Resources Management* BLM has inventoried cultural resources on 26 .277 million acres (10% of its land base) and recorded approximately 400,400 properties . Resources include: • 141 National Register of Historic Places (National Register) listed properties • 2,187 National Register contributing properties • 57,291 National Register eligible properties • 425 maintained historic structures • 30,413 recorded paleontological localities • 10 million artifacts and specimens in 165 museums and universities *Information from the 2018 Public Lands Statistics report and FY 2018 BLM Budget Justification
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National Conservation Lands The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) system of National Conservation Lands includes approximately 36 million acres of nationally significant landscapes with outstanding historic, cultural, ecological, and The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in central scientific values . Congress and presidents have Montana protects a historic landscape that is tremendously popular for outdoor recreation. The monument includes key provided specific designations to these lands segments of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and the to conserve, protect, and restore them for the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, as well as the Fort Benton National Historic Landmark. benefit of current and future generations . PHOTO BY BOB WICK/BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
National Conservation Lands The National Conservation Lands FY 2021 Appropriations Request system include BLM lands with the following congressional and presidential Please support $49.5 million for the Bureau of Land designations: Management’s National Conservation Lands in the FY 2021 • National Monuments Interior Appropriations bill. • National Historic Trails • National Scenic Trails • Wild and Scenic Rivers APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies • Wilderness Areas AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management • Wilderness Study Areas ACCOUNT: Management of Lands and Resources • National Conservation Areas ACTIVITY: National Landscape Conservation System (National • Additional areas designated by Conservation Lands) Congress for inclusion in the system
Background Recent Funding History: FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $36.819 million BLM created the National Landscape Conservation System (National FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $39.819 million Conservation Lands) in 2000 . Congress FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $43.819 million codified the system in the Omnibus FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $37.634 million Public Lands Act of 2009 (PL 111-11) and FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $49.5 million directed the Secretary of the Interior to manage these lands “in a manner that protects the values for which JUSTIFICATION: An increase in base funding for National Conservation Lands will allow for greater inventory and monitoring of cultural resources the components of the system were and prevent damage to the resources found in these areas, ensure proper designated” and in accordance with any management, and provide for a quality visitor experience. applicable law .
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National Conservation Lands by State
ALASKA Old Spanish National Historic Trail Conservation Area Iditarod National Historic Trail 5 Wilderness Areas; 53 Wilderness Study Areas Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument Steese National Conservation Area Old Spanish National Historic Trail FLORIDA 1 Wilderness Study Area Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Monument 6 Wild and Scenic Rivers Area Prehistoric Trackways National Monument ARIZONA IDAHO Río Grande del Norte National Monument Agua Fria National Monument California National Historic Trail 2 Wild and Scenic Rivers Arizona National Scenic Trail Continental Divide National Scenic Trail 18 Wilderness Areas; 48 Wilderness Study Areas Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area Craters of the Moon National Monument NORTH DAKOTA Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Ironwood Forest National Monument Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail National Conservation Area OREGON Nez Perce National Historic Trail Las Cienegas National Conservation Area California National Historic Trail Old Spanish National Historic Trail Oregon National Historic Trail Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area 16 Wild and Scenic Rivers Oregon National Historic Trail Sonoran Desert National Monument 9 Wilderness Areas; 40 Wilderness Study Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail Areas Vermilion Cliffs National Monument Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area 47 Wilderness Areas; 2 Wilderness Study Areas MARYLAND Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area Captain John Smith Chesapeake National 34 Wild and Scenic Rivers CALIFORNIA Historic Trail Alabama Hills National Scenic Area 9 Wilderness Areas; 87 Wilderness Study Areas Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail UTAH California Coastal National Monument Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area California National Historic Trail MONTANA Bears Ears National Monument Carrizo Plain National Monument Continental Divide National Scenic Trail California National Historic Trail Fort Ord National Monument Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Headwaters Forest Reserve Nez Perce National Historic Trail John Wesley Powell National Conservation Area Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Pompeys Pillar National Monument Jurassic National Monument Old Spanish National Historic Trail King Range National Conservation Area Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument Pony Express National Historic Trail Mojave Trails National Monument 1 Wild and Scenic River Red Cliffs National Conservation Area National Conservation Lands of the California 12 Wild and Scenic Rivers Desert 1 Wilderness Area; 35 Wilderness Study Areas 35 Wilderness Areas; 77 Wilderness Study Old Spanish National Historic Trail NEVADA Areas Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail Basin and Range National Monument Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station VIRGINIA Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Outstanding Natural Area Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail Trails National Conservation Area Sand To Snow National Monument Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route California National Historic Trail Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Historic Trail National Monument Gold Butte National Monument WASHINGTON 10 Wild and Scenic Rivers Old Spanish National Historic Trail Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail 92 Wilderness Areas; 59 Wilderness Study Pony Express National Historic Trail Areas Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area San Juan Islands National Monument Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area 1 Wilderness Area; 1 Wilderness Study Area COLORADO 46 Wilderness Areas; 60 Wilderness Study Browns Canyon National Monument Areas WYOMING Canyons of the Ancients National Monument California National Historic Trail Continental Divide National Scenic Trail NEW MEXICO Continental Divide National Scenic Trail Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Continental Divide National Scenic Trail Area El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Nez Perce National Historic Trail Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area Historic Trail Oregon National Historic Trail Pony Express National Historic Trail McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area El Malpais National Conservation Area Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National 42 Wilderness Study Areas
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Land and Water Conservation Fund Since 1965, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has played a pivotal role in preserving historic places as the principal funding source for adding to our national parks Thanks to LWCF, visitors to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and other public lands . Through the American in West Virginia can more fully experience the rich, multi-layered Battlefield Protection Program, LWCF also history of the area. For example, LWCF allowed the park to add Murphy Farm, the one-time site of John Brown’s Fort that drew helps states, local governments, and their a pilgrimage from W.E.B. Du Bois and other Niagara Movement leaders during their historic meeting in the early years of the partners preserve historic battlefields . modern civil rights era. PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LWCF helps people experience places that tell diverse American stories. LWCF has helped ensure permanent FY 2021 Appropriations Request stewardship of and public access to: • Sites of women’s history like the Please support increasing funding toward the full $900 million Women’s Rights National Historical for Land and Water Conservation Fund programs in the FY 2021 Park in New York Interior Appropriations bill, including at least $20 million for • Iconic Civil Rights Era sites like the Martin Luther King, Jr . National American Battlefield Protection Program acquisition grants. Historical Park in Georgia • Civil War battlefields like those at APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Agencies National Military Park in Virginia AGENCY: Crosscutting • Native American cultural landscapes ACTIVITY: Land and Water Conservation Fund managed by the Bureau of Land Management like Sears Point at the Recent Funding History: Great Bend of the Gila in Arizona and FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $425 million Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $435 million FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $495.103 million Background FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $14.752 million Each year, $900 million—primarily from FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: Increase toward full funding offshore oil and gas revenues—is deposited of $900 million, including $20 million for American Battlefield into the Land and Water Conservation Protection Grants Fund in the U .S . Treasury . Congress then
appropriates funding from LWCF for federal JUSTIFICATION: LWCF has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to grow land acquisition, outdoor recreation grants the historic and cultural parks managed by the National Park Service, to states that fund state and local park preserve battlefields, and bring other lands with cultural and historic significance into public stewardship at the federal, state, and local levels. projects, the American Battlefield Protection This popular and effective program is essential to America’s $887 billion per Program, and a handful of other programs year outdoor recreation economy. Within LWCF funding, at least $20 million that provide permanent preservation and should be dedicated for the American Battlefield Protection Program. conservation benefits across the nation .
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Historic and Cultural Units of the National Park System Protected with LWCF
ALABAMA ILLINOIS NEW HAMPSHIRE RHODE ISLAND Cape Krusentstern NM Lincoln Home NHS Saint-Gaudens NHP Roger Williams Nmem Freedom Riders NM Tuskegee Airmen NHS INDIANA NEW JERSEY SOUTH CAROLINA Tuskegee Institute NHS Morristown NHP Charles Pickney NHS Selma To Montgomery NHT George Rogers Clark NHP Lincoln Boyhood Nmem Paterson Great Falls NHP Cowpens NB ALASKA Thomas Edison NHP Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie NHP Sitka NHP IOWA Ninety Six NHS Klondike Gold Rush NHP Effigy Mounds NM NEW MEXICO Reconstruction Era NHP Herbert Hoover NHS Aztec Ruins NM ARIZONA Bandelier NM TENNESSEE Coronado Nmem KANSAS Chaco Culture NHP Fort Donelson NB (also KY) Brown v . Board of Education NHS Fort Bowie NHS El Malpais NM Shiloh NMP (also MS) Fort Larned NHS Hubbell Trading Post NHS El Morro NM Stones River NB Fort Scott NHS Montezuma Castle NM Pecos NHP Nicodemus NHS Tumacácori NHP Petroglyph NM TEXAS Salinas Pueblo Missions NM Alibates Flint Quarries NM Tuzigoot NM KENTUCKY Fort Davis NHS ARKANSAS Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP NEW YORK Lyndon B Johnson NHP Arkansas Post Nmem Camp Nelson NM Eleanor Roosevelt NHS Palo Alto Battlefield NHP Fort Smith NHS (also OK) Cumberland Gap NHP (also TN, VA) Fort Stanwix NM San Antonio Missions NHP Little Rock Central High School NHS General Grant Nmem Waco Mammoth NM President William Jefferson Clinton LOUISIANA Governors Island NM Birthplace Home NHS Cane River Creole NHP Hamilton Grange Nmem U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Jean Lafitte NHP&P Harriet Tubman NHP Salt River Bay NHP and Ecological Preserve CALIFORNIA Home of Franklin D Roosevelt NHS Eugene O’Neill NHS MAINE Martin Van Buren NHS Saint Croix Island International UTAH John Muir NHS Sagamore Hill NHS Golden Spike NHP Manzanar NHS Historic Site Saint Paul’s Church NHS San Francisco Maritime NHP Saratoga NHP VERMONT Tule Lake NM MARYLAND Stonewall NM Antietam NB Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP (also COLORADO DC, WV) Women’s Rights NHP VIRGINIA Bent’s Old Fort NHS Clara Barton NHS Appomattox Court House NHP Mesa Verde NP Hampton NHS NORTH CAROLINA Booker T Washington NM Sand Creek Massacre NHS Carl Sandburg Home NHS Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Cedar Creek & Belle Grove NHP Yucca House MN NHP Fort Raleigh NHS Colonial NHP Monocacy NB Guilford Courthouse NMP Fort Monroe NM CONNECTICUT Piscataway Park Moores Creek NB Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania NMP Weir Farm NHS Thomas Stone NHS George Washington Birthplace NM NORTH DAKOTA Maggie L Walker NHS Fort Union Trading Post NHS (also MT) DELAWARE MASSACHUSETTS Manassas NBP Captain John Smith Chesapeake NHT Knife River Indian Villages NHS (also DC, MD, NY, PA, VA) Adams NHP Petersburg NB Boston NHP Theodore Roosevelt NP First State NHP (also PA) Frederick Law Olmsted NHS Richmond NBP John Fitzgerald Kennedy NHS OHIO FLORIDA Longfellow House-Washington’s Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers NM WASHINGTON Castillo de San Marcos NM Headquarters NHS Fort Vancouver NHS (also OR) Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP Fort Caroline Nmem Lowell NHP San Juan Island NHP Minute Man NHP First Ladies NHS Timucuan Ecological & Historic Whitman Mission NHS New Bedford Whaling NHP Hopewell Culture NHP Preserve Salem Maritime NHS James A Garfield NHS Saugus Iron Works NHS Perry’s Victory & International Peace WASHINGTON, D.C. GEORGIA Springfield Armory NHS Memorial Carter G . Woodson Home NHS Andersonville NHS William Howard Taft NHS Ford’s Theatre NHS Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP MICHIGAN (also TN) Keweenaw NHP Frederick Douglass NHS Fort Frederica NM OKLAHOMA Mary McLeod Bethune Council House River Raisin NBP Washita Battlefield NHS NHS Jimmy Carter NHS Kennesaw Mountain NBP MINNESOTA OREGON WEST VIRGINIA Martin Luther King, Jr ., NHP Grand Portage NM Lewis and Clark NHP (also WA) Harpers Ferry NHP (also MD, VA) Ocmulgee Mounds NHP MISSISSIPPI PENNSYLVANIA WYOMING GUAM Natchez NHP Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS Fort Laramie NHS War in the Pacific NHP Vicksburg NMP (also LA) Edgar Allan Poe NHS Eisenhower NHS ABBREVIATIONS HAWAII MISSOURI Flight 93 Nmem NB: National Battlefield George Washington Carver NM Ala Kahakai NHT Fort Necessity NB NBP: National Battlefield Park Harry S Truman NHS Honouliuli NHS Friendship Hill NHS NHP: National Historical Park Wilson’s Creek NB Kalaupapa NHP (lease) Gettysburg NMP NHP&P: National Historical Park and Preserve NHS: National Historic Site Pu`uhonua O Hōnaunau NHP Independence NHP Pu`ukoholā Heiau NHS MONTANA NHT: National Historic Trail Big Hole NB Johnstown Flood Nmem NM: National Monument Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS Valley Forge NHP Nmem: National Memorial IDAHO NMP: National Military ParkNHS Lewis & Clark NHT (also IL, IA, KS, PUERTO RICO MO, MT, NE, ND, OR, SD, WA) NEBRASKA San Juan NHS Minidoka NHS (also WA) Homestead National Monument of America Nez Perce NHP (also MT, OR, WA) Scotts Bluff NM NOTE: This list only includes NPS historic and cultural units. Many other NPS units have protected historic or cultural resources with LWCF, including a historic ranch and traditional Lakota sites at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota and historic resources at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin. Other federal agencies also use LWCF. For example, the BLM has added lands at the Sears Point ACEC in Arizona, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado, and many others. States also use LWCF for state and local historic parks, including sites like Fort Churchill State Historic Park along the Pony Express National Historic Trail in Nevada.
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Cultural and Scientific Collections The Department of the Interior (DOI) manages one of the largest museum collections in the nation, with more than 200 million natural and cultural objects held in trust for the American people . The vast collections are housed in 2,000 Interior facilities as well as 1,000 museum and university partner facilities . These collections represent the fields of archaeology, ethnography, fine arts, history, biology, geology, The “People, Land & Water” exhibit at the U.S. Department of and paleontology . Countless public exhibits the Interior Museum in Washington, D.C. and educational programs feature objects from PHOTO COURTESY INTERIOR MUSEUM these collections, and they are used widely for research . FY 2021 Appropriations Request Background Please support $1 million for Cultural and Scientific Collections The Department of the Interior in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. established the Cultural and Scientific Collections program in 2014 to APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies address deficiencies cited by the Office of Inspector General . As of AGENCY: Office of the Secretary/Department-Wide Programs 2018, approximately 148 million, or ACCOUNT: Working Capital Fund 70 percent of bureau collections, ACTIVITY: Cultural and Scientific Collections (CSC) had been cataloged . Yet millions of scientific and cultural objects remained Recent Funding History: to be accessioned and cataloged to FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $998,000 provide accountability and increase FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $0 access and use for the benefit of the FY 2020 Enacted Funding: TBD public . FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: TBD FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $1 million
JUSTIFICATION: Small investments in cultural and scientific collections from this program have realized substantial returns for the public. Many projects involve partnerships with non-Federal museums and universities that house Interior collections. Through this initiative hundreds of thousands of museum objects have been accessioned and cataloged to improve accountability, access, and compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. This program has helped to correct deficiencies in facilities to improve preservation for research, exhibit, and heritage uses by Tribes. Most importantly, this program has enabled greater public access to and understanding of Interior’s vast collection of America’s artifacts.
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Cultural and Scientific Collections The Department of the Interior’s museum collection is cared for by the Office of Acquisition and Property Management and the ten DOI bureaus and offices that manage portions of the collection. Those offices include the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, the Interior Museum, the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, and nearly 1,000 partners.
The diverse museum collections are used in many ways, including: Traditional cultural uses: museum exhibits at DOI bureaus and partner facilities; online exhibits; research; curriculum-based educational initiatives; and publications.
Clay bowl (AD 1030-1200) found at Photographic print (c. 1898–1910) of Maggie Clara Barton’s first book, The Red Cross in Pueblo Alto in Chaco Culture National L. Walker, civil rights activist, community Peace and War. This comprehensive history Historical Park. leader, and entrepreneur. Maggie Walker covers the origins of the International Red PHOTO COURTESY MUSEUM COLLECTION OF CHACO was the first African American woman in Cross movement, founding of the American CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK the United States to charter a bank, which Red Cross, and its work from 1881–1898. It she used to empower women economically also focuses on the Spanish-American War. and help the emerging black middle class in Barton often gave signed copies of her Richmond, Virginia. book as gifts. PHOTO COURTESY MAGGIE L . WALKER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE PHOTO COURTESY CLARA BARTON NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE VIRTUAL MUSEUM EXHIBIT
1925 Ford Model T pick-up truck at the Fort Egbert National Historic Site in Alaska. The BLM works in cooperation with the local Eagle Historical Society and Museums to manage five restored structures at Fort Egbert, which is part of the Eagle Historic District National Historic Landmark. PHOTO BY BOB WICK/BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
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Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent federal agency that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and sustainable use of our nation’s diverse historic resources and advises the President and the Congress on national historic preservation policies .
Background Administration’s efforts to improve the The ACHP is a linchpin in implementing delivery of major infrastructure projects . our nation’s historic preservation Similarly, the ACHP will continue to programs . ACHP administers the focus on improving consultation with rulemaking process for preservation tribes to make environmental reviews more efficient and expeditious for Rehabilitation of the Waterbury State law, assists in the resolution of conflicts Office Complex in Vermont following infrastructure projects . arising from Section 106 historic resource Tropical Storm Irene was the largest reviews of federal undertakings, identifies historic preservation project undertaken The ACHP also performs a critical role in Vermont. Its success was grounded in efficiencies in the infrastructure project in the emergency response to natural the many partnerships established early in the process. review process, and participates in other disasters, as well as long-range planning PHOTO COURTESY VERMONT STATE HISTORIC preservation issues . and recovery from natural disasters . PRESERVATION OFFICE The ACHP is responsible for advising the Administration, Congress, and state FY 2021 Appropriations Request agencies on legislative, regulatory, Please support $7.878 million for the Advisory Council on and administrative policies related to Historic Preservation in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. historic preservation, including the implementation of recommendations APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for improving the national historic AGENCY: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation preservation program adopted following the 50th anniversary of the National Recent Funding History: Historic Preservation Act . FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $6.4 million In FY 2020, the ACHP will focus on FY 2019 Enacted Funding $6.89 million developing efficiencies for Section FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $7.378 million 106 review of federal and federally FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $7.400 million assisted projects . As a member of FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $7.878 million the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in the JUSTIFICATION: An increase in funding would enhance the ACHP’s performance of its essential roles in ensuring that the nation’s historic and Fixing America’s Surface Transportation cultural resources are protected while also advancing timely delivery of major (FAST) Act of 2015, the ACHP will infrastructure projects and improving consultation with Indian Tribes. The continue to play an important role in the increase would also support the ACHP’s efforts to promote enhanced mapping and digitization of cultural resources.
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Section 106 Success Stories
LEFT: Interior of the TWA Hotel which opened in 2019. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER MICHEL
BELOW: Back courtyard at the rehabilitated Waterbury State Office Complex in Vermont.PHOTO COURTESY VERMONT STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE
the building . That investment led to significant adaptive reuse developer interest, and the new TWA Hotel, centered on the historic terminal, opened in spring 2019 .
WATERBURY STATE OFFICE COMPLEX, WATERBURY, VERMONT Following severe flooding in 2011, state and federal officials undertook a massive rehabilitation of the state office complex in Waterbury, Vermont . The project restored and reused 13 historic core buildings and added new, resilient office space and a heating and cooling plant . A successful Section 106 consultation process helped preserve the character of the historic campus while enhancing energy efficiency and climate resilience . Increasing TWA TERMINAL AT JFK INTERNATIONAL resilience to future flood events required changing the interior AIRPORT, NEW YORK of most buildings, including filling basements and old heating tunnels and elevating first floors . Demolished buildings have The Trans World Airlines Flight Center (known as the TWA given way to courtyards and open spaces . Terminal) at New York’s John F . Kennedy International Airport is an icon of modern expressionistic architecture that embodies According to the ACHP, the completed project has increased the romance of flight as well as the jet age aesthetic of the public awareness of the historic complex and illustrated how 1960s . The building opened as a hub terminal for TWA in disaster recovery activities and flood mitigation best practices 1962, and its architectural significance led to the building’s can be used to foster local redevelopment sensitive to historic designation as a New York City Landmark when it was only 32 preservation . years old . It was subsequently listed in the National Register of Historic Places . However, over time the terminal grew functionally obsolete . By the time TWA went out of business in 2001, the terminal had significant operational and capacity deficiencies that led the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to propose replacing the terminal . The Port Authority planned construction of a large new terminal behind the TWA Terminal that included demolishing aspects of the historic terminal . The Section 106 process included 13 consulting parties, including the ACHP, who worked together to revise the new terminal’s design and fully protect the historic TWA Terminal . As part of the process, the Port Authority agreed to seek an adaptive reuse developer for the historic terminal and fund interim maintenance to stabilize and maintain the structure . Further, the Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement for the project established a Redevelopment Advisory Committee that would review and consult on future plans and designs as they were developed . The new terminal building was completed in 2008, and the Port Authority agreed to fund a $19 million restoration of
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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) support our cultural heritage, including efforts by communities around the country to tell a fuller American story and engage people with history in compelling ways .
Background The NEA provides Americans in every congressional district the opportunity to experience and participate in the arts . Since 1965, NEA has awarded more than $5 billion in grants, which have been distributed in all fifty states . Lyndhurst Mansion, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and part of the Hudson Valley National Heritage Each dollar of federal investment leverages up to $9 in Area, received an NEA grant to support the installation of a private and other public funds . The NEH has distributed contemporary art exhibit by Jorge Otero-Pailos as part of his Ethics of Dust series. The installation will be in the Swim Tank approximately 64,000 grants for education, research, Building, the last building at Lyndhurst to be renovated. preservation, and other public programs in the humanities . PHOTO BY CLIFFORD PICKETT
FY 2021 Appropriations Request Please support $170 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and $170 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities in the FY 2021 Interior Appropriations bill. National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Agencies AGENCY: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities AGENCY: National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities ACCOUNT: National Endowment for the Arts ACCOUNT: National Endowment for the Humanities ACTIVITY: Grants and Administration ACTIVITY: Grants and Administration
Recent Funding History: Recent Funding History: FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $152.849 million FY 2018 Enacted Funding: $152.849 million FY 2019 Enacted Funding $155 million FY 2019 Enacted Funding $155 million FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $162.250 million FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $162.250 million FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $30.175 million FY 2021 President’s Budget Request: $33.419 million FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $170 million FY 2021 NTHP Recommendation: $170 million
JUSTIFICATION: NEA and NEH investments promote access to the arts and advance knowledge and understanding in the humanities for all Americans. The federal commitment to the arts and humanities spurs innovation, promotes economic development, and helps tell our nation’s many diverse stories.
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NEA and NEH in Action at National Trust for Historic Preservation Sites
Support from the National arts-focused programming that that it was made and to carry Endowment for the Arts has created now draws people from around the those experiences back to their programs like Art and Shadows country to the town’s downtown classrooms, such as exploring the at the Shadows-on-the-Teche commercial district . intellectual underpinnings of the in Louisiana that put regionally- Constitution at James Madison’s based artists in residence at the National Endowment for the Montpelier or discovering the site, resulting in programming Humanities support has brought rich, but largely unknown, African that attracted new audiences and teachers from around the country American history in the President’s served as a prototype for broader to learn about history in the places neighborhood at Decatur House .
In January 2020, Woodlawn (right) and Pope-Leighey House (left) received an NEA grant to support “Creators and Cultivators: Engaging a Community to Design a New Trail for Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House.” This project will bring together artists, landscape designers, agriculturalists, architects, historians, place-makers, and community activists to create a plan for contemporary art trail that both ties together the sites and serves the larger community. Located in Fairfax County, VA, both of these sites are owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. PHOTOS BY GORDON BEALL (WOODLAWN), PAUL BURK (POPE-LEIGHEY)
46 FY 2021 APPROPRIATIONS | NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION EXECUTIVE TEAM This report could not have been published without the consistent and Paul Edmondson President and Chief Executive enthusiastic support of internal colleagues and external partners. The Officer Government Relations and Policy team at the National Trust gratefully Katherine Malone-France acknowledges the extraordinary work of our colleagues throughout our Executive Vice President and organization, especially in Public Affairs, Marketing, Field Services, Legal, and Chief Preservation Officer Outreach and Support, who strengthen and amplify the National Trust’s policy Tabitha Almquist Chief Administrative Officer priorities and messages. We are especially thankful for the advocacy of our many Thompson M. Mayes partners whose sustained advocacy and solid on-the-ground efforts bring the Chief Legal Officer preservation movement to life. and General Counsel Geoff Handy The creation of this report was co-managed by Janelle DiLuccia, Associate Chief Marketing Officer Director of Public Lands Policy, and Christine Grubbs, Associate Manager Lynn English of Government Relations. We would like to acknowledge the rest of our team, Interim Chief Development Officer whose contributions made this report possible: Patricia Woodworth Tom Cassidy, Vice President of Government Relations and Policy Interim Chief Financial Officer Shaw Sprague, Senior Director of Government Relations Pam Bowman, Director of Public Lands Policy Carl Wolf, Policy Advisor
Special thanks to Mary Butler, Creative Director
For more information, please contact: Janelle DiLuccia, Associate Director of Public Lands Policy National Trust for Historic Preservation 202.588.6140 | [email protected] Christine Nicole Grubbs, Associate Manager of Government Relations National Trust for Historic Preservation 202.588.6115 | [email protected]
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