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Final 2012 NHLPA Report Noapxb.Pub GSA Office of Real Property Utilization and Disposal 2012 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS REPORT NATIONAL HISTORIC LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION ACT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Lighthouses have played an important role in America’s For More Information history, serving as navigational aids as well as symbols of our rich cultural past. Congress passed the National Information about specific light stations in the Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA) in 2000 to NHLPA program is available in the appendices and establish a lighthouse preservation program that at the following websites: recognizes the cultural, recreational, and educational National Park Service Lighthouse Heritage: value of these iconic properties, especially for local http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/lt_index.htm coastal communities and nonprofit organizations as stewards of maritime history. National Park Service Inventory of Historic Light Stations: http://www.nps.gov/maritime/ltsum.htm Under the NHLPA, historic lighthouses and light stations (lights) are made available for transfer at no cost to Federal agencies, state and local governments, and non-profit organizations (i.e., stewardship transfers). The NHLPA Progress To Date: NHLPA program brings a significant and meaningful opportunity to local communities to preserve their Since the NHLPA program’s inception in 2000, 92 lights maritime heritage. The program also provides have been transferred to eligible entities. Sixty-five substantial cost savings to the United States Coast percent of the transferred lights (60 lights) have been Guard (USCG) since the historic structures, expensive to conveyed through stewardship transfers to interested repair and maintain, are no longer needed by the USCG government or not-for-profit organizations, while 35 to meet its mission as aids to navigation. percent (32 lights) have been conveyed through public sales, generating over $3.6 million dollars. Purpose of the Report: In 2012: This report outlines: Four lights were transferred through stewardship (1) The history of the NHLPA’s program; transfers, and four lights were transferred through public sales. (2) The roles and responsibilities of the three Federal partner agencies charged with the program’s There were 70 Expressions of Interest submitted execution; for 2012 lighthouses—the largest number in the history of the NHLPA program. (3) The current (2012) and historical disposal trends of the program; and The public sale of Little Gull Island Light (NY) (4) A snapshot projection of the program’s 2013 generated the largest amount of sales proceeds for workload. a single lighthouse ($381,000) through a public sale. ES-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Report Sections Page Number Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ES-1 Table of Contents………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………..1 NHLPA Program History…………..………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Roles and Responsibilities……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Program Overview……..………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………..4 Program Accomplishments…………………………………………………………………………………………………………...6 FY13 Program Forecasts……………….………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10 Photo Credits…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11 Case Studies: Moose Peak Light Station…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….7 South Haven South Pierhead Light………………………………………………………………………………………………….8 Little Gull Island Light………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 Appendices: Appendix A: Summary of Light Stations Conveyed as of December 2012…………………………………………………… 12 Appendix B: Updates for Outstanding Lights in the NHLPA Program as of December 2012………………………………. 15 Appendix C: Detailed Historical Background Data for 2012 NHLPA Program…………………………………………………19 2012 NHLPA Program Highlights Report 1 NHLPA PROGRAM HISTORY The NHLPA program is a continual, multi-year process that involves Figure 1: NHLPA Timeline multiple agencies as well as the local community. The Department of Homeland Security’s United States Coast Guard (USCG), the Department of Interior’s National Park Service (NPS), and the General 1966 NHPA signed Services Administration (GSA) help support and implement the program established by the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 (NHLPA), P.L. 106-355. Congress passed the NHLPA as an amendment to the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966. Historic lighthouses 1966- transferred through GSA’s 2000 Prior to the NHLPA, historic lighthouses could be transferred to state or Property Act disposal program local agencies through the National Park Service’s Historic Surplus or Federal Lands to Parks Property Program or the Federal Lands to Parks Program. GSA also Program conveyed historic lighthouses as historic monuments through the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (Property Act). Since the passage of the NHLPA, USCG, NPS, and GSA have 2000 NHLPA passed built a strategic and mutually beneficial alliance to preserve historic American light stations, in accordance with the guidelines set forth in the NHLPA. Each of these agencies have unique roles and NHLPA pilot program responsibilities in the NHLPA process, but they share a common goal to 2001 convey historic light stations to eligible stewards. created by Federal partner agencies NHLPA gives priority to public entities and non-profit organizations to First lighthouse transferred acquire a historic light station at no-cost (i.e., conveyed without 2002 monetary consideration) through a competitive application process under NHLPA authority—Saint administered by NPS. If a potential steward cannot be identified through Augustine Light in Florida this process, the NHLPA authorizes GSA to conduct a public sale of the light station. First public sale of a historic 2005 lighthouse under NHLPA The history of the NHLPA program is charted in Figure 1. The NHLPA pilot program was launched in the Fall of 2001, which contained nine lights eligible for transfer. The first light to transfer under the new Largest number of lights (14) program was Saint Augustine Light, Florida, in 2002. Five of the 2011 transferred in a single year remaining lights were transferred later in 2002, while the rest were transferred from 2003 to 2005. Little Gull Island Light generates 2012 largest sales proceeds from a public sale 2012 NHLPA Program Highlights Report 2 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES GSA, USCG, and NPS all play a crucial role in ensuring USCG and NPS assess the submitted applications on the that the government finds suitable new stewards for merits of the preservation, the reuse plan, financial viability, available historic light stations. The NHLPA process is and how the light will be managed. If there are no outlined in Figure 2 below. Initially, USCG identifies lights interested parties or suitable applicants, the light is that are no longer needed for mission purposes at the recommended by the Department of Interior (DOI) for a beginning of the government’s fiscal year (October- public sale. GSA will then schedule and hold a public December). The three partner agencies work together to auction for the light. develop an annual list of lights that will become available to new stewards through the NHLPA program. Eligible Conveyance documents include covenants for historic lighthouses and stations are announced through a Notice preservation and public access. Stewardship transfers also of Availability (NOA). If interested parties submit an require that public access to the light be maintained. The Expression of Interest (EOI), they are sent an application USCG retains a right for access and to service aids to and those that respond are provided the opportunity to navigation equipment for any active lights. inspect the properties during an open house session. Figure 2: Federal Agencies’ Roles and Responsibilities in the NHLPA Process USCG Identifies USCG Sends GSA GSA Issues Notice Excess Historic Report of Excess of Availability Lighthouses NO Public Sale (60-Days): Eligible Expressions of Interest? GSA Forwards Eligible GSA Schedules Site YES Expressions of Interest to Visit with NPS & NPS USCG NO Public Sale Final Applications Due Applications 90 Days after Site Visit Submitted to NPS? NPS Reviews YES Application(s) NO Public Sale DOI Recommends Single Applicant to GSA? GSA Conveys to YES Recommended Steward 2012 NHLPA Program Highlights Report 3 PROGRAM OVERVIEW Since enactment of the NHLPA in 2000, 92 light stations Figure 3: Total Stewardship Transfers and Public Sales have been conveyed to new public and private owners through stewardship transfers and public sales. Of these 100 92 92 historic light stations, 60 lights (65%) have been 90 conveyed through stewardship transfers, and 32 (35%) 80 light stations were sold to private entities (Figure 3). 70 60 Transferred 60 Stewardship Transfers and Public Sales 50 Lights 40 32 of During the initial five years of the program, all lights were conveyed through stewardship transfers. 30 20 In 2005, GSA sold the first three lights through public Number 10 sales as authorized through the NHLPA legislation 0 (Figure 4). In 2007, the number of lights sold through Stewardship Transfers Public Sales Total public sales exceeded that of stewardship transfers. increase was the implementation of submerged land The highest number of stewardship transfers occurred in occupancy agreements between new stewards and the 2004 when nine lights were conveyed to new public state of Michigan, which expedited several stewardship stewards. The largest number of lights transferred transfers
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