SHPO-CON-3: Re: Section 106 Consultation for Infrastructure Improvements, North Base, Vandenberg Tracking Station, Vandenberg Air Force Base
Creators: name: Polanco, Julianne
Publisher: name: California Office of Historic Preservation, Department of Parks and Recreation
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Santa Barbara (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3486/santa-barbara-county
subject: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/77005/vandenberg-air-force-base-california
subject: California (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1484/california-state-territory
subject: Cold War-era
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/8333/cold-war-era
subject: Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9355/santa-ynez-band-of-chumash-indians
subject: CA-SBA-917
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/100734/ca-sba-917
subject: Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/127278/vandenberg-tracking-station-vts
subject: Vandenberg Tracking Station Historic District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/127710/vandenberg-tracking-station-historic-district
subject: Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/127279/vandenberg-tracking-station-vts-complex
subject: Satellite Control Historic District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/127711/satellite-control-historic-district
subject: CA-SBA-793
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/93148/ca-sba-793
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: remote tracking stations
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/4548/remote-tracking-stations
subject: Air Force Satellite Control Network
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/4549/air-force-satellite-control-network
subject: Historic District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/428/historic-district
subject: Section 106
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/67760/section-106
subject: Monitoring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/58/monitoring
subject: National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/166012/national-register-of-historic-places-nrhp
subject: Consultation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/4/consultation
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/8/records-search-inventory-checking
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to Vandenberg Air Force Base (Vandenberg AFB) regarding the United States Air Force's (USAF) proposal to initiate a series of infrastructure improvements at the Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) in Vandenberg's AFB's North Base area. This letter is in response to the transmittal letter of May 16, 2017, initially opening consultation for the project. The letter briefly reiterates information provided in the initial transmittal letter from Vandenberg AFB in support of the USAF's conditional no adverse effect determination, including project activities associated with the project and the cultural resource effort that was performed in support of the Section 106 process. The letter also includes SHPO's comments in response to USAF's transmittal letter and project determination and are as follows: 1) the APE appears sufficient to take the undertaking's effects on historic properties into account; 2) the SHPO is unable to concur with the USAF's eligibility determination for the VTS (see letter), but recommends that the VTS complex be considered NRHP eligible for the purposes of this undertaking only; 3) the SHPO recommends the USAF evaluate the VTS complex as a potential historic district in accordance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, using NRHP criteria and submit the evaluation for the SHPO's comment and concurrence; and 4) the SHPO agrees with the monitoring conditions imposed by the USAF and SYBCI and, inclusive of the assumption of eligibility for the VTS complex, concurs with USAF's finding of no adverse effect with cond