Lyle, thanks for the advice on how to apply the new 106 regs.  I, for one,
am inspired!  Maybe we should all go home this week end and draft a letter
of interest to our SHPOs.

Linda Derry ([log in to unmask])
Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Alabama Historical Commission


> Section 106 regs allow for interested parties to be part of the
proceedings.
> Direct involvement at the SHPO level by the specialists on any site is one
way
> that works. If the SHPO refuses to consider the IA component or any other
for
> that matter, we can always march the thing upstairs to the ACHP. That does
> work, or at least the threat of it works.
>
> For non-106 issues, the news media often work wonders, perhaps not for the
> site in question, but once burned, twice wary and the next time the
ignoring
> types may not ignore.
>
> These mail-lists are also a potent weapon in the arsenal. Professional
input
> from informed sources can work.
>
> The biggest and initial problem is discovering that a project is underway,
and
> that someone is working on a project who isn't cognizant of the issues
> involved. How does one get to know of the problem until one reads the
report?
> What I have tried is a blanket letter to the SHPO which states that the
> specialist wishes to be an interested party on any project in which that
> particular specialist expertise is a part in a 106 undertaking or which
> potentially affects a NR property.  There ought to be in each SHPO office
a
> specialist consult list for the various esoteric fields which SHPO staff
use
> regularly. Pie in the sky perhaps, but workable and better for us all.
>
> Lyle
>