Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 25 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part I - Office of Cultural Development › Chapter 1 - Division of Archeology › Subchapter E - Program › Section I-175 - Archaeological Program

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The
				  commission, acting through its officers, staff, employees, committees and
				  contractors, in order to implement and supplement the directives of
				  R.S.
				  41:1607, shall inaugurate a program of
				  activities in archaeology which will include, but not be limited to, the
				  following endeavors:
1. revise, extend,
				  improve, and promote the
Registry of State Archaeological
				  Landmarks
;
2. contribute
				  to the public awareness and understanding of the state's historic and
				  prehistoric resources by:
a. designing and
				  maintaining a system of exhibits and interpretive displays;
b. issuing regular news releases to the
				  public media;
c. providing a series
				  of accurate and informative publications directed to the nonprofessional
				  audience;
d. cooperating with state
				  archaeological societies;
e. making
				  commission records, files, and expertise available to students from all
				  institutions of higher education;
f. developing a lecture program and
				  audio-visual aids suitable for use by civic and school groups within the
				  state;
3. encourage
				  participation by private landowners in the process of conservation,
				  preservation, and investigation of prehistoric and historic
				  resources;
4. undertake a
				  comprehensive survey of the entire state and its offshore waters to determine
				  the full extent of existing nonrenewable cultural resources;
5. prepare and keep up-to-date a priority
				  list of specific investigations that must be conducted in order to satisfy the
				  objectives of the commission's long-range research strategy. Except in the case
				  of sites threatened with immediate destruction, contracts should be assigned
				  partially on the basis of what the proposed project can contribute to the
				  solution of such overall research problems. Budget requests as well should
				  reflect the priority of investigations;
6. undertake a legislative study exercise to
				  determine the need, if any, for changes in state law to achieve the goals of
				  the commission's program as stated herein;
7. investigate the need for additional
				  regulations to implement Public Law 93-291, adopted May 24, 1974, by the
				  Congress of the United States;
8.
				  standardize the state's archaeological data base by and after interaction and
				  cooperation with all agencies and institutions of higher education actively
				  investigating the history and prehistory of Louisiana. Through standardization
				  of forms used in recording archaeological data and through development of a
				  computer program to process such data, the results of all archaeology conducted
				  within the state shall be made available to and be in a form utilizable by all
				  other archaeologists participating in the system;
9. inform state agencies, departments, and
				  other instrumentalities including subdivisions, special districts, law
				  enforcement officers, and other units of local government of all registered
				  state archaeological landmarks and the regulations pertaining
				  thereto;
10. publish both popular
				  and professional articles of scientific, historic, and prehistoric
				  merit;
11. inform all state
				  agencies, departments, and other instrumentalities of the commission's program,
				  the benefits to be derived from such work, the law pertaining thereto, and the
				  regulations adopted to execute such program;
12. nominate through prescribed channels all
				  state archaeological landmarks determined by the commission to be of major
				  scientific and educational value for inclusion on the National Register of
				  Historic Places. The National Register program will be explained to landowners
				  at the same time sites on private lands are being registered as
				  landmarks;
13. establish and
				  maintain liaisons with archaeological organizations in both the professional
				  and amateur categories for the purpose of:
a.
				  determining the need for action by the commission;
b. identifying new items to include in the
				  program;
c. assessing the need for
				  amendment, repeal or rewriting of the regulations;
d. obtaining input of ideas for better
				  carrying out the purposes, goals, and objectives of the commission;
e. facilitating the preservation,
				  conservation, and proper utilization of the archaeological resources of the
				  state;
14. support
				  federal, state, and private agencies, political subdivisions, and firms in
				  determining the impact of proposed construction projects on all historic and
				  prehistoric resources. The commission may, at its discretion, accept an
				  existing archaeological resources statement, provided that a recent ground
				  survey has been conducted by a professional archaeologist in support of the
				  statement. The commission may also contract with another agency, political
				  subdivision, or firm whose staff includes a professional archaeologist to
				  survey the construction area and to prepare an archaeological resource
				  statement;
15. seek to establish
				  and solicit private support for the Louisiana Archaeological Council.
				  Membership in the council will be open to all professional archaeologists
				  located or working in the state of Louisiana. The council will meet quarterly,
				  whenever possible in conjunction with any other archaeological meeting. The
				  council will serve as an advisory body to the Louisiana Archaeological Survey
				  and Antiquities Commission. It will contribute to a coordinated state
				  archaeological program by providing a medium through which the fruition of
				  on-going investigations can be shared and research assignments can be allocated
				  on a voluntary basis;
16. design,
				  sponsor, and maintain a permanent storage and research facility to be called
				  the "Louisiana Center for the Study of Man". Such a building will:
a. serve as permanent headquarters for the
				  commission;
b. provide safe,
				  atmospherically controlled, and perpetual storage for the state's historic and
				  prehistoric resources;
c. house the
				  central state archaeological survey files;
d. contain efficient and adequate facilities
				  for the treatment, preservation, and processing of recovered remains of all
				  types;
e. be the center for
				  uniform, up-to-date type collections of the state's historic and prehistoric
				  artifacts;
f. supply exhibit space
				  for outstanding archaeological specimens deserving of public viewing;
g. provide safe and accessible storage for
				  photographs, books, records, maps, and documents pertaining to Louisiana
				  history and prehistory;
h.
				  facilitate the utilization of collections and field data in the custody of the
				  commission in a manner which encourages maximum analysis and
				  interpretation;
i. serve as a
				  primary research facility for all professional archaeologists, scientists, and
				  students who are interested in and actively studying the history and prehistory
				  of human settlement in the state of Louisiana.