Section 106 of the NHPA. Formerly codified at 16 U.S.C. § 470f. Section 106 protects properties listed on the Register or eligible for listing on the Register by requiring agencies to take into account impacts on those properties before undertaking any work.
First federal statute covering historic preservation of more than one site. Authorized the President to designate landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest.
Authorized the Department of the Interior to create a list of places of national significance. Also organized federally owned parks, monuments, and historic sites under the National Park Service.
Passed in 1974, this grants greater powers to the Secretary of the Interior than those in the Historic Sites Act. Requires federal agencies to preserve historical and archaeological data that might not otherwise be protected.
This provision provided substantive protection for historic resources threatened by federal action. Applicable only to federal transportation programs, it requires the Department of Transportation to consider historic lands in any project it undertakes. Moving ahead would occur if there is no prudent and feasible alternative to the historic site and with consideration and planning to minimize harm to the protected site.
