Alabama Administrative Code › Title 460 - ALABAMA HISTORICAL COMMISSION › Chapter 460-X-11 - ALABAMA CULTURAL RESOURCES PRESERVATION TRUST FUND GRANTS › Section 460-X-11-.01 - Program Description

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
Grant funds are made available from the Alabama Cultural
				Resources Preservation Trust Fund. Grants are on a matching basis.
(a) Eligible Applicants - The Alabama
			 Historical Commission accepts grant applications from nonprofit organizations,
			 local governments, educational institutions and others. Individual persons are
			 not eligible to receive grants.
(b)
			 Eligible Projects - All project work will be supervised by professionals
			 meeting United States Code of Regulations  36 CFR 61, Appendix A.
1. Survey and Registration - Identification
			 of historic resources and their Evaluation are the two phases of the Survey
			 Process. Registration is the preparation of nominations to the National
			 Register of Historic Places. Applicants must apply for projects that are
			 considered as having priority by the Alabama Historical Commission.
2. Planning - Project activities involve the
			 identification, evaluation and management of critical information about
			 cultural resources relating to their development and preservation. Cultural
			 resources are defined as individual properties, districts, structures,
			 archaeological and historic sites, maritime resources, objects, and
			 landscapes.
3. Public Awareness and
			 Education - Projects and activities that increase public knowledge of
			 preservation principles, promote preservation as an ethic, and that increase
			 knowledge and awareness of the kinds of properties (both historical and
			 archaeological) that are worthy of preservation and the various methods of
			 preserving them.
4. Predevelopment
			 - is the preparation of architectural plans, specifications, feasibility
			 studies, and structure reports. All archaeological sites and historic
			 structures must be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic
			 Places.
5. Rehabilitation
			 Development and Acquisition of properties and Archaeological Mitigation of
			 sites - Development grants are for protection, stabilization, preservation,
			 rehabilitation restoration of properties eligible for the National Register of
			 Historic Places. Mitigation grants are for archaeological excavation and data
			 recovery of sites eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
			 Projects shall be geared toward rehabilitation of existing historic structures,
			 not reconstruction. Mitigation of archaeological sites will be considered as a
			 final alternative after other preservation measures have failed.
i. Ownership of Property - Rehabilitation
			 Development project applicant must have possession of property. Archaeological
			 excavation projects must have written permission from the property owner. For
			 buildings which have been leased or transferred the lessee is eligible to apply
			 for a grant provided the lease period is as long as the grant required letter
			 of agreement period for maintenance and administration of the property for
			 public benefit. Grants are allowable for local governments and local
			 preservation organizations to provide facade rehabilitation grant programs that
			 will prevent deterioration and blight to contributing properties in historic
			 districts National Register of Historic Places. Grants will not be made for the
			 restoration of privately-owned structures with the exception of significant
			 structures determined by the Alabama Historical Commission to be of State
			 and/or National importance and which are threatened by demolition.
ii. Allowable Costs - Funds may be used for
			 restoration work to structures open to public, protection, historic landscapes,
			 archaeological excavations. Funds may not be used for costs that do not lead to
			 the preservation of the affected resource.
iii. Maintenance of Grant Assisted Work - A
			 covenant (or letter of agreement) must be executed by the appropriate parties
			 who will be able to maintain, repair, and administer the property in a manner
			 satisfactory to the Alabama Historical Commission.