**Meeting Notes**

**Heritage Asset Partnership**

9:00 -- 11:00 a.m., Thursday, December 14, 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

USGS Steve Felch 703-648-4370 sfelch@usgs.gov

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

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

**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 Chair Nominations**

Some time was spent early in the meeting discussing nominations for a
2007 chair. The only nomination made was Steve Felch of USGS, however,
Steve was late to the meeting and not able to respond. He will be
contacted prior to our next meeting. In addition to this nomination,
some time was devoted to some possible adjustments to the charter to
allow for Co-chairs. It was felt that being able to share the duties of
the chair might enable others in the membership to more easily accept
these responsibilities. Further, there was also some discussion of
having a request to serve as Co-chair come from PAM so that the selected
members could have the request in hand when discussing with their
management. All were good suggestions and I will make an attempt to
draft new language for the charter to reflect the suggestions that the
membership can review and vote on. We can then present the adjusted
charter to PAM for signature.

**Contaminants discussion with PEP**

Robert Wilson from PEP gave a presentation on environmental liability.
The DOI has a variety of sites, for example, mines, structures with
asbestos, that require some level of environmental clean up. Mr. Wilson
has developed a database to track these assets that came on-line in
July. The system is meant to work with FBMS and will also interact with
Bob Jarcho's asset management database. A connection to Heritage Assets
also exists from the standpoint that some historic structures,
archaeological sites, and museum collections can also potentially be a
contaminated asset. Mr. Wilson has a workgroup with representatives from
all bureaus. He will share that list so that HAP members will be able to
discuss the issue with their respective bureau representatives. Some
discussions on this topic should also be made with Bob Jarcho to discuss
how the asset partnership is accounting for heritage assets that are
also contaminated and if there is any departmental policy.

**Solicitor meeting with Cultural Resource Managers**

HAP attendees of the Cultural Resources Solicitors meeting held on Nov.
9 reported an active and successful discussion with the solicitors about
whether or not all archeological sites are real property. After the
discussion, the solicitors requested a summary of HAP's position on the
question.

At the HAP meeting today, Terry Childs presented her draft of a summary
position with additions provided by Emily Palus, and Tom Lincoln
provided a revision by Chris Pfaff. Since Chris wasn't at the meeting,
Terry agreed to contact her the following week to work out another draft
version. Once finished, it would be sent to Emily Palus who would work
to get any comments and additions from Ron Wilson, who also attended the
Nov. solicitors meeting, but not this HAP meeting. Emily will send the
final draft to the solicitors one week prior to the next meeting with
the solicitors scheduled for Jan. 18^th^.

The meeting was adjourned.

Because of scheduling conflicts, our next meeting will be in early
February. Date and place TBA.