01787225

Monograph

https://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/182578.aspx

This report provides state departments of transportation (DOTs), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs) with an analysis of the common challenges and successful practices related to the development and execution of project-level Programmatic Agreements (PAs). The research presented in this report was conducted as part of NCHRP Project 25-62 Improving the Efficiency and Consistency of Section 106 Compliance for State DOTs: Strategies for Project-Level Programmatic Agreements and Postwar Commercial Properties. A future publication will present the research on postwar commercial properties. The full range of how state DOTs use project-level PAs is not well documented and practitioners often rely on anecdotal information regarding development and implementation of these agreements. This project focuses on lessons learned and best practices for project-level PAs and highlights how DOTs are successfully using project-level PAs. This report serves as a companion to NCHRP Project 25-25/Task 107, Section 106 Delegation Programmatic Agreements: Review and Best Practices and Quick Reference Guide, which provided state DOTs, FHWA, and SHPOs practical guidance for the application, preparation, modification, and implementation of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (Section 106) delegation PAs. Delegation PAs address Section 106 compliance for the FHWA’s Federal-Aid Highway Program within a state and “delegates” decision making that is normally the purview of FHWA to a state DOT. NCHRP Project 25-62 analyzes the use of project-level PAs to better understand current approaches to their development and identify best practices based on input from questionnaire respondents, interviewees, and analysis of PAs collected from across the country. The document is organized to easily communicate the key considerations and questions to ask before and during the development of a project-level PA. To complete the analysis presented in this report, the project team developed and executed the Data Collection and Outreach Plan, detailed in Technical Memorandum 1, Information Collection Plan: Project-Level PAs, which included a questionnaire and interviews with DOTs, SHPOs, FHWA Division Office staff, key staff at the ACHP, tribal liaisons at DOTs, and THPOs concerning their experiences in the development and implementation of project-level PAs. Examples of project-level PAs were provided by questionnaire respondents, interviewees, and NCHRP study panel members. The project team reviewed examples of successful and less successful project-level PAs to understand what works and what does not work in the implementation of these documents.

Submitted July 2021.

NCHRP Project 25-62

English

60p

2021

NCHRP Web-Only Document

9780309272179

Digital/other

Appendices; Figures

Best practices; Compliance; Federal aid highways; Historic preservation; Lessons learned; State departments of transportation; State of the practice; Strategic planning

National Historic Preservation Act

Highways; History; Planning and Forecasting; Policy

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Oct 22 2021 10:11AM