Section 106 Archaeology Surveys: Trimming Costs and Avoiding Delays
Many developers, engineering firms, and construction companies find themselves bidding on a new project that requires compliance with cultural resources management laws and regulations, such as Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). And very often the first step in this compliance process involves performing cultural resources surveys like historic building assessments and archaeology investigations. If you or your company need to conduct one of these surveys but are not familiar with how they work, then you could no doubt benefit from some common-sense, practical guidance on how to make sure you both comply with federal or state regulations and still meet your own project goals.
Based on our years of experience, we here at Hardlines Design Company have developed a series of free, downloadable guidelines and tips to help navigate these surveys. Our first entry in this series addresses archaeological surveys and lays out some key steps that a company can take when hiring archaeological consultants, allowing you to streamline the survey process and avoid significant delays and cost overruns.
Future guidelines will address how to have a similar positive effect on historic building surveys, what it means when you need to go to the evaluation stage of compliance, and different ideas for mitigating effects on historical properties . All guidelines in the series are free of charge and available to anyone who would like them.