# Presentation: 290351

## EXECUTIVE ORDER 13287 PRESERVE AMERICA

**Introductory Briefing for Federal Agencies**
**April 2, 2003       Washington, DC**

## Preserve America Initiative

**Executive Order is part of new White House initiative **
**Developed in cooperation with ACHP and Departments of Interior and Commerce**
**Goal to support community efforts to preserve and use cultural and natural resources**

## Preserve America Components

**Presidential awards**
**Designation of Preserve America Communities**
**Targeting of Federal funding support**
**Executive Order 13287**

## Executive Order 13287Goals and Policy

## Goals of the Executive Order

**Promote the benefits of preservation**
**Foster recognition of historic properties as assets with economic    as well as intrinsic value **
**Encourage public-private   partnerships**
**Improve Federal stewardship**
**Support preservation and economic development through heritage  tourism**

## Policy Vision 

**Set forth in Section 1**
**Federal government provides leadership in preserving America’s Heritage **
**Protects, enhances, and uses its historic properties**
**Promotes partnerships for preservation and use of historic properties**
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## Property Management Policy 

**Federal government shall manage historic properties as assets that:**
**support agency missions**
**contribute to community economic vitality**
**foster appreciation of American   history and values**
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## Broad Policy Directives

**Federal agencies shall:**
**protect and continue to use Federal historic properties**
**pursue public-private partnerships to promote both preservation of cultural heritage and potential economic benefits **
**maximize efforts to integrate National Historic Preservation Act  and Executive Order into their program activities**
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## Specific Directives

## Building Preservation Partnerships

**All agencies are to seek public-private partnerships to use historic properties to promote local economic development**

## Improving Agency Planning and Accountability

**Property managers must report on:**
**Condition of historic properties and suitability for contributing to community economic development**
**Compliance of regulations, etc., with Sections 110 and 111 (revise if needed)**
**Progress (every three years) in identifying, protecting, and using historic properties**
**All agencies must designate senior preservation policy official**

## Improving Federal Stewardship of Historic Properties

**Agencies shall manage properties to contribute to local economies and increase public access and benefit**
**ACHP directed to accept donations to assist agencies with stewardship**
**NPS to make available information for agency education and training**
**ACHP to recognize agency achievement and submit recommendations to the President on stimulating creativity**

## Promoting Preservation Through Heritage Tourism

**Department of Commerce directed to assist States, tribes, and local governments in promoting    heritage tourism**
**Commerce to work with ACHP          and other agencies**
**Property managers shall use   historic properties in conjunction with State, tribal, and local tourism programs to foster partnerships**

## Section-by-Section Analysis

## Specific Directives Section-by-Section

**The Executive Order spells out specific requirements for:**
**building preservation partnerships  ****[Section 2]**
**improving agency planning and accountability  ****[Section 3]**
**improving Federal stewardship of historic properties  ****[Section 4]**
**promoting preservation through heritage tourism  ****[Section 5]**

## Important Definitions

**Historic properties: included in or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places **
**Heritage tourism: attracting visitors to an area based on unique aspects of its history, landscape, and culture **
**Federally owned: does not include foreclosed properties held for less than five years**
**[Section 7]**

## Qualifiers

**As noted, directives to be carried     out when appropriate and consistent with some or all of the following:**
**agency mission**
**governing law**
**applicable preservation standards **
**public access restrictions**
**long-term preservation of the properties**
**nature of the historic properties **
**national and homeland security goals**

## Section 2Building Preservation    Partnerships

## Seeking Partnerships

**Each Federal agency shall seek partnerships with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and private sector**
**Goal is promoting local economic development and vitality through long-term preservation and productive use of historic properties**

## Ensuring Support for Partnerships

**Each agency shall examine its policies, procedures, and capabilities**
**Goal is to ensure agency actions under such policies, etc., will routinely encourage public-private initiatives and investment**

## Section 3Improving Agency Planning        and Accountability

## Assessing Current Status of Federal Historic Properties

**Each property-managing agency  shall make baseline assessment of:**
**status of its Section 110(a) inventory**
**general condition and management needs of its historic properties**
**steps underway or planned to meet those needs**
**suitability of historic properties to contribute to economic development, including heritage tourism**
**     ****[Section 3(a)]  **

## Reporting on the Baseline Assessment

**Each property-managing agency must report on its baseline assessment of historic properties   by September 30, 2004**
**Report must be made available to  ACHP and Department of the Interior (DOI)**
**[Section 3(a)]**

## Assessing Agency Regulations, Policies, and Procedures 

**Each property-managing agency shall review its regulations, policies, and operating procedures for compliance with Sections 110 & 111 of NHPA**
**Deadline for review is September 30, 2004**
**Results of review must be made available to ACHP and DOI**
**If out of compliance, amendments or revisions required                           **
**[Section 3(b)]**** **

## Tracking Progress in Managing Historic Properties

**Each property-managing agency is responsible for reporting on its progress in identifying, protecting, and using its historic properties**
**First report due September 30, 2005**
**Reports due every third year   thereafter**
**Reports must be made available to the ACHP and DOI**
**[Section 3(c)] **

## ACHP Report on the State of Federal Historic Properties

**ACHP required to report to the President every three years on:**
** ****the state of the Federal   government’s historic properties**
**their contribution to local economic development**
**Report will incorporate data from agency reports**
**First report due February 15, 2006**
**[Section 3(c)]**

## Reporting Systems and Guidelines

**Agencies authorized to use    existing information gathering and reporting systems during their assessments and reporting**
**ACHP, in consultation with DOI,   will issue advisory guidelines**
**Guidelines must be issued by September 30, 2003**
**[Section 3(d)]**

## Designation of Senior Preservation Policy Official

**Each agency must designate a senior policy level official to have historic preservation policy oversight**
**Assistant secretary, deputy assistant secretary, or equivalent**
**Designation deadline is June 30, 2003**
**This official or direct subordinate to be Federal Preservation Officer (FPO)**
**FPO shall be qualified and have access to expertise and support**
**[Section 3(e)]**

## Section 4Improving Federal Stewardship     of Historic Properties

## Agency Stewardship Directives

**Property-managing agencies are     to manage historic properties:**
**to promote their preservation and     use as Federal assets**
**to contribute to local communities    and their economies**
**Agencies shall cooperate with     local communities to increase   public benefit from and access to Federal historic properties**
**[Sections 4(a)-(b)]**

## Donations to ACHP toAssist in Stewardship

**ACHP directed to use its donations authority to encourage and accept public and private donations**
**Donations can be of money, equipment, or other resources**
**Such donations to be used to assist agencies in the preservation of Federally-owned historic properties**
**[Section 4(c)]**

## National Park Service  Educational Assistance

**NPS directed to make available existing materials for stewardship education, training, and awareness**
**In doing so, NPS to work with the ACHP and consult other agencies**
**Goal that all Federal personnel will have access to stewardship information, methods, and skills needed to productively use historic properties**
**[Section 4(d)]**

## Encouragement & Recognition of Exceptional Agency Achievement

**ACHP directed to encourage and recognize exceptional achievement**
**In consultation with NPS and other agencies**
**ACHP to develop recommendations on stimulating initiative, creativity, and efficiency in stewardship**
**To be submitted to the President and agency heads by March 31, 2004**
**[Section 4(e)]**

## Section 5Promoting Preservation       Through Heritage Tourism

## Promoting Heritage Tourism

**Within existing resources, Department of Commerce directed to work with ACHP and agencies to:**
**assist States, tribes, and communities to promote use of historic properties for heritage tourism and related economic development**
**strengthen heritage tourism as it relates to historic properties and important natural assets on Federal land**
**[Section 5(a)]**

## Forging Heritage Tourism Partnerships

**Property-managing agencies shall use their historic properties in conjunction with State, tribal, and local tourism programs to:**
**foster economic partnerships**
**cooperate and coordinate with  tourism officials and others**
**[Section 5(b)]**

## Summary of Agency Responsibilities

## Responsibilities:  All Federal Agencies

**Seek public-private partnerships     to promote local economic vitality through use of historic properties**
**Examine policies, etc., to ensure encouragement of partnerships**
**Appoint a senior policy level official (by June 30, 2003) to have historic preservation policy oversight**
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## Responsibilities:  All Federal Agencies

**Cooperate with local communities to increase public benefit from and access to Federal historic properties**
**Work with Department of Commerce in its effort to assist States, tribes, and communities in promoting use of historic properties for heritage tourism and related economic development**

## Additional Responsibilities: Property Managers

**Develop baseline assessment and report concerning their historic properties (by 9/30/2004)**
**Assess policies, etc. for compliance with Sections 110 and 111 of NHPA (by 9/30/2004), and revise as needed**
**Develop triennial progress reports on their historic properties (starting 9/30/2005)**
***continued . . .***

## Additional Responsibilities: Property Managers

**Manage historic properties to promote their continued use and their contribution to local economies**
**Use their historic properties in conjunction with State, tribal, and local tourism programs**

## ACHP Agency Outreach

## Assistance in Agency Reporting

**Will consult with agencies on existing reporting systems in development of advisory reporting guidelines**
**Will issue reporting guidelines by September 30, 2003**
**Will work with agencies to     consider and address issues     raised in agency reports**

## Encouragement of Agency Innovation

**Will continue issuance of Chairman’s Award for Federal Achievement in Historic Preservation**
**Will solicit from agencies examples of innovative stewardship techniques during development of recommendations to the President and agency heads on stimulating creativity in stewardship**

## Promotion of Federal Heritage Tourism

**Will sponsor a second Federal Heritage Tourism Summit**
**Planned for May 2003 in Washington**
**Opportunity for dialogue among Commerce, ACHP, and agencies on fulfilling mandates of Section 5 **

## Assistance for FPOs

**Will convene a meeting of FPOs to:**
** ****brief newly appointed officials on their responsibilities**
**discuss Executive Order implementation**
**Planned for September 2003 in Washington**

## Funding Stewardship Through Donations

**Will explore directive to seek donations to assist agencies in preserving Federally-owned    historic properties**
**Opportunities for agencies without such a mechanism to utilize ACHP’s donations authority**
**Potential for ACHP to proactively    seek donations**

## Encouraging Participation in Preserve America

**In addition to working with agencies to implement Executive Order 13287, ACHP will: **
**Encourage agencies to develop their own preservation awards programs or coordinate existing award programs with Preserve America initiative**
**Explore opportunities for agency programs to support Preserve America goals**