I had not thought of the legal aspects. But if there are known errors
in an accepted report (discovered after submission), is there a legal
requirement to submit a correction? Otherwise you leave in place a
legal document that is incorrect. In the case of CRM reports they are
the property of the client, but are often filed with the SHPO, for
instance here in Virginia they are placed in the VA Dept of Hisotric
REsources archives. Where they are available to the public,
researchers, and CRM firms.

On Dec 1, 2004, at 8:26 AM, William B. Lees, Ph.D. wrote:

> Two things in regards to this:  1) if you do not own the report
> it would be presumptuous to change it (perhaps the best course is
> to notify the client/owner of any egregious error, and possibly
> the SHPO also?); 2) if the report is reviewed and accepted it is
> a legal document and to make changes after that poses issues of
> another sort (which is another reason to simply inform the
> client/owner)..
>
> William  Lees