www.cr.nps.gov/whatwedo.htm
The National Park Service has numerous resources concerning historic preservation. Only a few of their programs are outlined here. Go to the addresses listed below and explore the site for your topics of interest.
Of the nearly 72,000 National Register listings, 77% are historic buildings and structures. This includes houses, schools, churches, courthouses, stores, factories and mills, monuments, railroad locomotives, tunnels and roads, dams, nautical vessels, bridges, and stockades. Take a look at the web products devoted to the careful preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic buildings and structures-both within communities across the country and the national park system.

• Historic American Buildings Survey/HABS or Historic American Engineering Record/HAER www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer
• National Register of Historic Places www.cr.nps.gov/nr/
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training www.ncptt.nps.gov
• Historic Landscapes Initiative www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hli/index.htm
• Preservation Briefs www.cr.nps.gov/hps/TPS/briefs/presbhom.htm
• Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings www.cr.nps.gov/hps/tps/
• Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation www.cr.nps.gov/hps/TPS/tax/rhb/
• Federal Historic Tax Incentives www.cr.nps.gov/hps/TPS/tax/
• Cultural Landscapes www.cr.nps.gov/landscapes.htm
• Federal Sources of Historic Preservation Funds www.cr.nps.gov/grants.htm

www.mainst.org

www.nthp.org
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic places and revitalizing America’s communities. Recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Trust was founded in 1949 and provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to protect the irreplaceable places that tell America’s story. Staff at the Washington, D.C., headquarters, six regional offices and 26 historic sites work with the Trusts 270,000 members and thousands of preservation groups in all 50 states. (PACA is a Forum member)

http://www.gardenconservancy.org/
A national, nonprofit organization founded in 1989 to preserve exceptional American gardens for the public’s education and enjoyment. The Garden Conservancy was founded to answer these questions, to provide the resources necessary to preserve many of America’s finest gardens, and to open the gates of these exceptional gardens to the public the public for education and enjoyment.

The Garden Conservancy
PO Box 219
Cold Spring, NY 10516
(845) 265 2029
(845) 265-9620 Fax

www.access.gpo.gov
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
US GPO free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993.

U.S. Government Printing Office
732 N. Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20401

(summary) (ISTEA)
http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/ste.html

TEA-3 is the third iteration of the transportation vision established by Congress in 1991 with the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) and renewed in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21).
How will the next reauthorization enable decision-makers to achieve better outcomes through transportation investments?
How can ISTEA’s provisions for flexibility, local decision-making, long range planning, fiscally constrained budgeting, and environmental stewardship be strengthened to improve the transportation system?
Factors likely to shape the legislation include the economy, strong public support for alternatives, and increasing demand for accountability. Key markers on the road to reauthorization will take place in September when the US Department of Transportation is expected to finalize its proposal through consultation with the Office of Management and Budget; the November elections, and starting in December legislative activity by Congressional committees who have jurisdiction over transportation.

Surface Transportation Policy Project
1100 17th St., NW
10th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-466-2636
Fax: 202-466-2247
tea@transact.org