§306102 Preservation Program

Summary

Federal agencies must set up, unless exempt under section 304108(c), a preservation program made with the Secretary to find, study, nominate to the National Register, and protect historic places. The program must do five main things: make sure agency-owned historic places are found, evaluated, and put forward for the National Register; manage and care for those places so their historic, archaeological, architectural, and cultural values are protected, with extra care for nationally important sites and in line with section 306108; consider preservation of places the agency might affect even if it does not own them; carry out preservation work with other federal, state, and local agencies, Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, and the private sector; and follow Council rules under section 304108(a)–(b), include a process for deciding National Register eligibility and making agreements with State Historic Preservation Officers, local governments, tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, and the public about handling harms, and handle Native American cultural items from federal or tribal land according to section 3(c) of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C. 3002(c)).