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 Congress to reject efforts underway through regulation, legislation, and executive action to dismantle one of America’s most successful bipartisan conservation and good-government laws. We asked specifically that Congress:
- Reject the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation’s proposed regulatory gutting of Section 106.
- Record your opposition during the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ review and the public comment period, now underway.
- Reject statutory changes that weaken Section 106, whether advanced independently or as part of a
broader permitting package. - Defend Congress’s constitutional authority against executive efforts to narrow, circumvent, or evade the preservation laws Congress enacted.
- Seek genuine improvements to Section 106 based on facts and data to make review more valuable and efficient without trading away the rights, voices, and protections that make the process meaningful.
Read the full letter here.
For more information about the fight to Defend Section 106 and NHPA you can go here.
Signatory Organizations;
106 Group
Aberdeen Main Street
Acacia Heritage Consulting
Adirondack Architectural Heritage
Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology
African American Archive of Columbia County
Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation
All That Philly Jazz
Alliance for Historic Wyoming
Alliance for Pioneer Square
Alliance of National Heritage Areas
Alta Archaeological Consulting LLC
American Alliance of Museums
American Anthropological Association
American Association for State and Local History
American Council of Learned Societies
American Institute for Conservation
American Institute of Architects
American Institute of Architects Los Angeles
American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA)
American Society of Landscape Architects
AMMD Pine Grove Project
Anthropology Career Readiness Network
AP Lohmann General Contracting/ Fine Carpentry LLC
Appalachian Forest Heritage Area Inc.
Applied Archaeological Research, Inc.
Applied Cultural Heritage LLC
Applied Earthworks
Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area
Arbre Croche Cultural Resources LLC
Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants
Archaeological Consultants of the Carolinas, Inc.
Archaeological Consulting Experts, LLC
Archaeological Heritage Association, Inc.
Archaeological Institute of America
Archaeological Research Institute
Archaeological Society of New Jersey
Archaeology in the Community
Archaeology Southwest
Architecture Foundation of Oregon
Arciform
Arizona Archaeological and Historic Society
Arizona Downtown Alliance
Arizona Preservation Foundation
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Arizona Vintage Sign Coalition
Art Deco Society of California
Art Deco Society of New York
Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches
Art Deco Society of Virginia
Art Deco Society of Washington D.C.
ASC Group, Inc.
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation
Association for Preservation Technology Eastern Great Lakes Chapter
Association for Washington Archaeology
Association of Iowa Archaeologists
Atlanta Preservation Center
Autumn Dawn Garden Design
Balanced Horizons, LLC
Barron County Historical Society, Inc.
Bellefonte Historic Preservation Foundation
Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Committee
Berlin, CT Historic District Commission
Black in Historic Preservation
Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation
Blue Lake Rancheria, California
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area
BOLA Architecture + Planning
Booneville Main Street Association
Bosco Milligan Foundation/Architectural Heritage Center
Brick and Beam Historic Preservation Consulting LLC
Brockington and Associates, Inc.
BrutalistDC
Built Buildings Lab
Byhalia Main Street
California Cultural Resources Preservation Alliance Inc.
California Preservation Foundation
Campo Band of Mission Indians
Canton Mississippi Office of Main Street
Canton-Madison County Historical Society
Cardinal Research Institute
Carnegie Hill Neighbors, Manhattan, New York
Carpenters’ Hall
Carroll Society for the Preservation of Antiquities
Castine Historical Society
Cayce Historic Foundation
Center for Biological Diversity
Central New York Cemetery Network of New York State Archaeological Association
Centralia Downtown Association
Chaco Alliance
Charlotte Museum of History
Chicago Art Deco Society
Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)
Chippewa Cree Tribe
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Inc.
Chronicle Heritage
CICADA Architecture/Planning, Inc.
Cincinnati Preservation
City Club of New York
City of Camden
City of Madison, Georgia Historic Preservation Commission
City of Petersburg Architectural Review Board
Civil War Round Table of Western Missouri
CIVITAS
Clark County Historical Museum
Clinton Brown Company Architecture, PC
Clinton County (Iowa) Historic Preservation Commission
Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis
Coalition for Smarter Growth
Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks
Coast Defense Study Group
Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists
Colorado Preservation Inc.
Combs and Combs, AIA, Architecture, Interiors and Art
Committee of 100 on the Federal City
Community Design Collaborative
Community Planning Collaborative
Como Main Street Alliance
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office
Coosa Riverkeeper
Council for Maryland Archaeology
Council for Museum Anthropology
Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology
Council of South Carolina Professional Archaeologists
Council of Virginia Archaeologists
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC
Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.
Cultural Resource Consultants
Cultural Resource Department of the Squaxin Island Tribe
Curtin Archaeological Consulting, Inc.
Dade Heritage Trust Inc.
David Bethuel Jamieson Studio House at Walbridge
Davis-King and Associates
Day Star Research
DC Preservation League
Dekalb History Center
Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University
Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Desert Archaeology
Detroit Area Art Deco Society
Dillinger Archaeology
DOCOMOMO DC
Docomomo Mid Tex Mod Chapter, Austin
Docomomo New England
Docomomo US
Docomomo US/Louisiana-Gulf South
Docomomo US/MN
Docomomo US/New York Tri-State
Docomomo US/NOCA
Docomomo US/North Texas
Docomomo US/WEWA
Docomomo US/Florida
Docomomo-Philadelphia
Docomomo US/Southern California
Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum
Downeast Maine National Heritage Area
Downtown Camas Association
Downtown Hattiesburg Association
Downtown Issaquah Association
Downtown Natchez Alliance
Dunwoody Preservation Trust
Earthjustice Action
Easements Atlanta Inc.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
Endangered California
Environmental Protection Information Center
Epic Metals Corporation
Eppard Vision
Equinox Research and Consulting International Inc.
Erie Canalway Heritage Fund, Inc.
Essex Heritage
Ethos Preservation
Eubanks and Associates, PLLC
expLoring exhibits and engagement
Far Western Anthropological Research Group
Fearnbach History Services, Inc.
Flagg Township Museum
Florida Archaeological Council
Florida Trust for Historic Preservation
Foggy Bottom Association History Project
Fort Collins Historical Society
Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe Historic Preservation Office
Foss Waterway Seaport
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
French Heritage Corridor
Friends of Dyke Marsh
Friends of Fairsted
Friends of Moses Hall
Friends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks
Friends of the Market
Friends of the Overlook House
Friends of the Peebles Homestead
Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists
Georgia Council on American Indian Concerns
Glessner House
Goodwill Theatre Inc.
Gray and Pape
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Greater Portland Landmarks
Greene County Ohio Historical Society
GreenLatinos
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Gullah Museum
Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition
Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society
H.A.N.A.P. LLC
Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe
Hands Off the Arts
Harold Weston Foundation
Heartland Earthworks Conservancy
Heritage Ohio
Heritage Strategies, LLC
Heritage Studies and Public History graduate program steering committee
Historic Albany Foundation
Historic Annapolis
Historic Athens
Historic Augusta, Inc.
Historic Boulder, Inc.
Historic Charleston Foundation
Historic Columbia
Historic Denver, Inc.
Historic Designation Advisory Board – City of Detroit
Historic Districts Council
Historic Flat Rock, Inc.
Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley
Historic Georgetown, Inc
Historic Harrisburg Association
Historic Hawai’i Foundation
Historic Ithaca
Historic Larimer County Colorado
Historic Macon Foundation
Historic Madison, Inc.
Historic Mount Pleasant
Historic Natchez Foundation
Historic Petersburg Foundation
Historic Preservation Education Foundation
Historic Salem, Inc.
Historic Saranac Lake
Historic Seattle
Historic Tacoma
Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA)
Houston Mod
HW Community Builders
Indiana Archaeology Council
Infoquest
Institute for Field Research
Institute of Maritime History
Inter-Mission
Iowa Archeological Society
Iowa Project AWARE
Jabali Preservation
James Harrod Trust
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i
Jefferson City Area Indivisible (Missouri)
John H. Stark Architecture
Keaukaha Action Network
Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area
Kensington Historical Society
Kent Downtown Partnership
Kentucky Museum and Heritage Alliance
Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists
Keysmith Foundation
Kilian Enterprises LLC / KilianWare Pottery
Kirk Huffaker Preservation Strategies
Klamath Forest Alliance
Kreilick Conservation, LLC
L.I.G.H.T. Foundation
La Linea Art Studio
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Landmark Preservation
LANDMARK WEST!
Landmarks Illinois
Langley Main Street Association
Laurel Main Street
Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware
Leslie A. Thomas Enterprises
Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program, Inc. (LAMP)
Living New Deal
Lochmueller Group
Logan Simpson
Loggia Preservation
Long Beach Historical Society
Looking for Lincoln/Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area
Los Angeles Conservancy
Los Descendientes de Tucson
Louisiana Landmarks Society
Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation
Louisville Main Street Association
Lower Columbia Research and Archaeology
Main Street Crystal Springs
Main Street Greenville
Main Street Middletown, MD Inc.
Main Street Poplarville
Maine Archives and Museums
Maine Preservation
Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society
Maritime Washington National Heritage Area
Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab
Maryland Museums Association, Inc.
McComb Main Street Association
McNeil Island Historical Society of Washington State
Meridian Main Street
Michigan Historic Preservation Network
Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference
MidModSC
Milwaukee Preservation Alliance
Mississippi Heritage Trust
Mississippi Main Street Association
Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation (Missouri Preservation)
Modernism Week
Monacan Indian Nation
Monroe County Historical Society
Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area
MotorCities National Heritage Area Partnership, Inc.
Mound Bayou Historic Preservation Commission
Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and History
Mount Peace Cemetery Association
Mountain Valley Archaeology
Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
Municipal Art Society of New York
Murphys Old Timers Museum
Naco Heritage Alliance / Camp Naco
National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC)
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
National Aviation Heritage Alliance
National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
National Council on Public History
National Frontier Trails Museum
National Parks Conservation Association
National Preservation Partners Network
Native American Rights Fund
Native Village of Chitina
Native Village of Ouzinkie
Native Village of St. Michael
N-Compass, Inc.
Nettleton Main Street
Neutra Institute for Survival Through Design
Nevada Preservation Foundation
New Albany Main Street
New South Associates
New York Archaeological Council
New York State Archaeological Association
New York State Archaeological Association, Houghton Chapter
New York State Archaeological Association, The Finger Lakes Chapter
Niagara Falls National Heritage Area
North Carolina Archaeological Society
Northern Alaska Environment Center
Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps
Northwest Vernacular, Inc.
Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia
Oahu Historic Preservation Commission
Oakland Heritage Alliance
Oakland Main Street
Oakland Museum of California
Ohio Archaeological Council
Oil Region Alliance of Business, Industry, and Tourism
Old Swedes Historic Site
Olmsted Network
One Barn Farm at Rippon Manor
One Hundred Miles
Orange County Historical Society
Oregon Black Pioneers
Oregon-California Trails Association
Organization of American Historians
Organized Village of Kasaan
Ossabaw Island Foundation
Our Stories Project
Over-the-Rhine Museum
Pacific Legacy, Inc.
Paleo Analytics LLC
Paleo Research Institute
Partnership for the National Trails System
Passamaquoddy Tribe
Past Forward Northwest Cultural Services
Paul Revere Memorial Association/Paul Revere House
Pele Defense Fund
Penn Center
Pennsylvania Hallowed Grounds
People of Color Outdoors
Philadelphia Archaeological Forum
Picayune Main Street
Piedmont Environmental Council
Pioneer Square Chinatown Community Preservation and Development Authority
Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation
Planning 2 Preserve LLC
Planting Fields Foundation
Port Townsend Main Street Program
Post Oak Preservation Solutions
Poster Mirto McDonald
Poudre Heritage Alliance
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
Preservation Alliance of West Virginia
Preservation Association of the Southern Tier
Preservation Austin
Preservation Chicago
Preservation Company
Preservation Dayton
Preservation Detroit
Preservation Forward
Preservation Futures
Preservation Houston
Preservation Idaho
Preservation Iowa
Preservation League of New York State
Preservation Long Island
Preservation Maryland
Preservation New Jersey
Preservation North Carolina
Preservation Pennsylvania
Preservation Piedmont
Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe Co.
Preservation Society of Charleston
Preservation Society of Newport County
Preservation South Carolina
Preservation Utah
Preservation Virginia
Preserve Arkansas
Preserve Chattanooga
Preserve Rhode Island
Prevail Investments LLC
Professional Archaeologists of Kansas
Professional Archaeologists of New York City
Providence Preservation Society
Public Art Dialogue
Pueblo of San Felipe
Quapaw Quarter Association
Rappahannock Tribe
Redlands Conservancy
RePoint Philadelphia
Resistance Rangers
Restore Oregon
Rethos
Richard Grubb and Associates, Inc.
Richaven Architecture an Preservation
Richmond Hill Historical Society and Museum
River Fields
River of Steel
River to Ridge Consulting
Riverside Preservation Alliance
Roberson Museum
Roger Ciuffo Historic Preservation Services
Rome Area Heritage Foundation
Round Valley Indian Tribes
Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality
Salix Archaeological Services LLC
Saltillo Main Street
Samish Indian Nation
Sand Creek Massacre Foundation
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area
Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance
Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area
Santa Monica Conservancy
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation
Saucon Legacy Trust
Save Our Heritage Organisation
Save the Dunes
sbk + partners, LLC
Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
Sea Level Consulting, LLC
Seafloor Solutions, LLC
Se’Si’Le
Sevonty Restoration
SGS Beta
Ships of Discovery
Social Security Works
Society for Applied Anthropology
Society for Commercial Archeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for Industrial Archaeology
Society of Architectural Historians
Society of Georgia Archaeology
South Carolina Archaeology Public Outreach Division
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
South Carolina Office of State Archaeology
Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Southern Environmental Law Center
Southern Maryland National Heritage Area
Southern Research Historic Preservation Consultants
Southern Sierra Miwuk
Southwestern Anthropological Association
Spokane Preservation Advocates
SS United States Preservation Foundation, Inc.
St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Standing Faculty of the Department of Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Research, Inc.
Strawberry Hill House
Substrate Collaborative Anthropological Research
Susquehanna National Heritage Area
SWCA Environmental Inc.
Sylvester Historic Consultants, LLC
Tallgrass Archaeology LLC
Tatanka Historical Associates Inc.
Tenleytown Historical Society
Tenleytown Neighbors Association
Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology
Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research
Teton County Historical Preservation Board
Texas Historical Foundation
The Archaeological Society of South Carolina
The Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association
The Banker’s House
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Culture Keepers Circle
The Descendants Project
The Dox Thrash Project
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
The Harrodsburg Historical Society
The Heritage Education Network
The Historical Society, Inc. of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown
The History Center in Tompkims County
The Landmark Trust USA
The Last Green Valley, Inc.
The L’Enfant Trust
The Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation
The New York Landmarks Conservancy
The Ocean Foundation
The Olana Partnership
The Osage Nation
The Ottery Group, Inc.
The Pines Preservation Guild
The Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc.
The Shaker Lakes Parklands
The Steilacoom Historical Museum Association
The Vail Preservation Society Board
Tó Nizhóní Ání
Torreon Community Alliance
Town of Carrollton, MS
Town Of Georgetown, Colorado
Two Rivers Heritage Museum
U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield
UHG1
Underground Railroad Education Center
Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco
University City Historical Society
University of Denver Museum of Anthropology
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
Urban Foxes LLC
Urban Greenspaces Institute
USModernist
Utah Professional Archaeological Council
Verity Works
Vieux Carré Property Owners, Residents and Associates
VITETTA, a DRG Architects Company
Waccamaw Indian People
Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Warren Lasch Conservation Center
Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists
Washington County History and Landmarks Foundation
Washington Museum Association
Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington Water Trails
Water Protector Legal Collective
Waterfront Historic Area League
Waymart Area Historical Society
Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation
Wildlife for All
Willamette Cultural Resources Associates, Ltd
Williams Alliance for the Arts
Winchester Historical Society
Wisconsin Intertribal Repatriation Committee
World Monuments Fund
Wyoming Archaeological Society
Yavapai-Apache Nation
York Architecture Illustrated
Ypsilanti Heritage Foundation
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area
Zeller Preservation