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Open Letter to Congress from National Coalition to Protect and Strengthen Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
On Thursday, August 27th, an unprecedented coalition of 600+ public, private, and nonprofit-sector organizations representing 5 million Americans, sent an open letter to call on...
Make Your Voice Heard on Section 106 — Request an OIRA Meeting Now
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s proposed Amendments to the Implementing Regulations for Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (RIN 3010-AA10) are under...
Speak up for the Eisenhower Executive Office Building: Comments Due November 16
The federal government wants to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, and the public now has a chance to tell them no. On October...
OA issues Environmental Assessment for the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
On October 16, 2026, the Office of Administration (“OA”) a component of the Executive Office of the President published a Notice of Availability in the...
106 Strong Coalition Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the NHPA
Sixty years ago today, Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act. Since then, Section 106 has asked one simple thing of the federal government: look...
SENATORS HEINRICH AND WHITEHOUSE JOIN REPUBLICANS TO STRIP SAFEGUARDS FOR TRIBAL SACRED SITES AND AMERICA’S HISTORIC PLACES
106 Strong Coalition, representing more than 800 Tribal Nations and organizations and 8 million Americans, calls the deal a betrayal of communities the senators...
There is Bipartisan, Bicameral Momentum to Save Section 106
A bipartisan, bicameral congressional letter to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Vice Chairman Travis Voyles is circulating right now in both chambers...
CHP Submits FOIA request to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
On Friday, September 11, 2026, Cultural Heritage Partners (“CHP”) submitted an expedited Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation...
PLAINTIFFS CALL FOR INDEPENDENT PROTECTION OF THE KENNEDY CENTER
Statement of eight Plaintiff organizations: The American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Society of Landscape Architects, Committee of 100 on the Federal City, The Cultural...
Let’s build a Section 106 Resource Bank that Fights Back!
We’ve heard from many of you that it would be helpful to have a central resource bank that you can refer to when drafting comments—a...
CHP Meets with OIRA
On September 2, 2026, Cultural Heritage Partners PLLC founding partners Marion Forsyth Werkheiser and Greg Werkheiser met with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs...
Interior’s New Secretarial Order Won’t Speed Up Development. It Will Slow It Down.
Interior’s New Secretarial Order Won’t Speed Up Development. It Will Slow It Down. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act rests on a simple...
Section 106 is NOT a litigation risk
We Correct the Record: Responding to Misinformation about Section 106 Did you know that the odds you will get hit by lightning in your lifetime...
Court Orders Advance Notice Before Any Further Ground-Disturbing Work in Point Roberts
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — July 15, 2026 — A federal judge today granted significant preliminary relief to the Lummi Nation in its lawsuit challenging the disturbance...
New Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts
New Lummi Nation Court Filing Deepens Story of Desecration of Burials at Point Roberts SEATTLE, WA — May 7, 2026 — Ten days after filing...
Lummi Nation Files Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Trenching Through Ancestral Burial Grounds
Lummi Nation Files Federal Lawsuit Over Repeated Trenching Through Ancestral Burial Grounds Seattle, WA – April 28, 2026 – The Lummi Nation has filed a...
Commission of Fine Arts Reviews Proposal to Paint Historic EEOB granite white
What Happened Yesterday—and What Comes Next Yesterday the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, now composed largely of presidential appointees aligned with this project, convened to...
Plaintiffs in Cultural Heritage Partners et al. v. Trump et al. file complaint against the GSA for FOIA violation
Washington DC, January 22, 2026. – Earlier this month Cultural Heritage Partners filed a complaint a for the DC Preservation League against the General Services...