[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR65.3]

[Page 344-345]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 65_NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 65.3  Definitions.

    As used in this rule:
    (a) Advisory Council means the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation, established by the National Historic Preservation Act of 
1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Address: Executive Director, 
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1522 K Street NW, Washington, 
DC 20005.
    (b) Chief elected local official means the mayor, county judge or 
otherwise titled chief elected administrative official who is the 
elected head of the local political jurisdiction in which the property 
is located.
    (c) Advisory Board means the National Park System Advisory Board 
which is a body of authorities in several fields of knowledge appointed 
by the Secretary under authority of the Historic Sites Act of 1935, as 
amended.

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    (d) District means a geographically definable area, urban or rural, 
that possesses a significant concentration, linkage or continuity of 
sites, buildings, structures or objects united by past events or 
aesthetically by plan or physical development. A district may also 
comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by 
association or history.
    (e) Endangered property means a historic property which is or is 
about to be subjected to a major impact that will destroy or seriously 
damage the resources which make it eligible for National Historic 
Landmark designation.
    (f) Federal Preservation Officer means the official designated by 
the head of each Federal agency responsible for coordinating that 
agency's activities under the National Historic Preservation Act of 
1966, as amended, including nominating properties under that agency's 
ownership or control to the National Register.
    (g) Keeper means the Keeper of the National Register of Historic 
Places.
    (h) Landmark means National Historic Landmark and is a district, 
site, building, structure or object, in public or private ownership, 
judged by the Secretary to possess national significance in American 
history, archeology, architecture, engineering and culture, and so 
designated by him.
    (i) National Register means the National Register of Historic 
Places, which is a register of districts, sites, buildings, structures 
and objects significant in American history, architecture, archeology, 
engineering and culture, maintained by the Secretary. (Section 2(b) of 
the Historic Sites Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 666, 16 U.S.C. 461) and section 
101(a)(1) of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 
915; 16 U.S.C. 470), as amended.) (Address: Chief, Interagency Resource 
Management Division, 440 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20243.)
    (j) National Historic Landmarks Program means the program which 
identifies, designates, recognizes, lists, and monitors National 
Historic Landmarks conducted by the Secretary through the National Park 
Service. (Address: Chief, History Division, National Park Service, 
Washington, DC 20240; addresses of other participating divisions found 
throughout these regulations.)
    (k) Object means a material thing of functional, aesthetic, 
cultural, historical or scientific value that may be, by nature or 
design, movable yet related to a specific setting or environment.
    (l) Owner or owners means those individuals, partnerships, 
corporations or public agencies holding fee simple title to property. 
``Owner'' or ``owners'' does not include individuals, partnerships, 
corporations or public agencies holding easements or less than fee 
interests (including leaseholds) of any nature.
    (m) Property means a site, building, object, structure or a 
collection of the above which form a district.
    (n) Site means the location of a significant event, a prehistoric or 
historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether 
standing, ruined or vanished, where the location itself maintains 
historical or archeological value regardless of the value of any 
existing structure.
    (o) State official means the person who has been designated in each 
State to administer the State Historic Preservation Program.
    (p) Structure means a work made by human beings and composed of 
interdependent and interrelated parts in a definite pattern of 
organization.

[48 FR 4655, Feb. 2, 1983, as amended at 62 FR 30235, June 3, 1997]