**Meeting Notes**

**Heritage Asset Partnership**

10:00 am-12:00, Thursday, March 15, 2006, MIB

Meeting participants and their contact information were:

NPS Terry Childs 202-354-2125 <Terry_Childs@nps.gov>

FWS Eugene Marino 703-358-2173 <eugene_marino@fws.gov>

BOR Tom Lincoln (via phone) 303-445-3311 <tlincoln@do.usbr.gov>

BOR Christine Pfaff (via phone) 303-445-2712
[cpfaff@do.usbr.gov]{.underline} USGS Steve Felch 703-648-4370
[sfelch@usgs.gov]{.underline}

BLM Emily Shillingburg Palus 202-452-7721 <Emily_Palus@blm.gov>

DOI Robert Wilson 202-208-7556 <Robert_M_Wilson@ios.doi.gov>

DOI Robert Jarcho 202-208-3329 [Robert
Jarcho/PAM/OS/DOI@DOI]{.underline}

BLM Robin Burgess 202-785-6581 [robin_burgess@blm.gov]{.underline}

DOI Debbie Smith (via phone) 202-208-3250
[dlsmith@ios.doi.gov]{.underline}

**HAP Governance**

HAP documents are available on the PAM website
(<http://www.doi.gov/pam/HeritageAssetsPartner.html>). Please check the
site often for updates.

**HAP**

Please accept my apologies for the technical difficulties with the
call-in number. We were issued the right code but the problem was with
the code activation and the Communication Office. The line became viable
at 10:10 am.

**Cultural Heritage Inventory**

Robert Jarcho from PAM summarized what the Cultural Heritage Inventory
initiative is about. This initiative, born out of the Preserve America
Summit 2006 aims to help states, tribes, and Federal agencies identify
and implement best practices for collecting, structuring, managing, and
using cultural resource data effectively. The CHI involves standards and
best practices for helping SHPO's, THPO's, and FPO's achieve and
maintain a level of excellence in the management and use of site
inventory and other information for historic preservation planning,
compliance and associated activities. The long term outcome of the CHI
is for the sharing of [existing]{.underline} and [future]{.underline}
cultural resource information electronically between stakeholders and
enabling communication between systems that run on different hardware
and use different software. The goal is for a completed comprehensive
inventory by 2016. With around \$4million identified to work with in the
2008 Budget the first step will be for the NPS to establish a working
group of stakeholders to identify existing and emerging best practices
in cultural resources management and other disciplines for creating,
structuring, storing, and using electronic spatial and nonspatial data.

**Report on Briefing with Mike Keegan, AD/ Facility and Property
Management**

Briefing attendance:

Mike Keegan, Bob Jarcho, Steve Felch, Eugene Marino, Terry Childs, Ron
Wilson

The HAP met with Mike Keegan to brief him on 2006 HAP activities and
2007 planning. Eugene Marino discussed the past years activities;
development of deferred maintenance guidance aimed specifically at
heritage assets, edits/comments to the Asset Management Plan,
development and submission to the DOI Inspector General a set of
protocols for site visits to heritage assets by auditors, and
modification of the HAP charter to best reflect and address the
membership and ensure continual leadership. Mike suggested getting on
Mike Powers (Deputy, PFM) calendar for a possible briefing, clarify the
role of the HAP and the subsequent links to helping with the audit. Bob
Jarcho stated that the AMP was due to be updated this quarter.

Terry Childs led and articulated on the HAP Position Paper regarding the
consideration of all archeological sites to be real property. Mike
accepts the HAP position, believes each Bureau should develop their own
list of real property that qualifies, and stated that the issue was for
the Asset Management Team to clarify. Mike also said that we should plan
on briefing Craig Crutchfield, (OMB) upon his lead and direction.

The revised Charter was accepted and Ron Wilson offered to reformat the
back signatory page and draft a memo for submission to Debra Sonderman.
The basic change spells out the Chair and Associate chair positions and
rotation.

[HAP White Paper:]{.underline} Eugene Marino stated that at the Preserve
America Summit Deputy Secretary Lynn Scarlett praised the DOI for
developing the HAP and suggested it could serve as a model to other
agencies. Mike was in total agreement with the development of a HAP
white paper which will outline the benefits of a group that works
closely with asset managers and that the needs of cultural resource
managers and asset managers are identified and shared. HAP member are
asked to provide examples to Steve Felch for collection and
solidification into the white paper.

Next meeting is scheduled for May 3, 10am -12 noon, MIB --PAM conference
room

The meeting was adjourned.