[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR60.1]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 60_NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  60.1  Authorization and expansion of the National Register.




Sec.
60.1 Authorization and expansion of the National Register.
60.2 Effects of listing under Federal law.
60.3 Definitions.
60.4 Criteria for evaluation.
60.5 Nomination forms and information collection.
60.6 Nominations by the State Historic Preservation Officer under 
          approved State Historic Preservation programs.
60.7-60.8 [Reserved]
60.9 Nominations by Federal agencies.
60.10 Concurrent State and Federal nominations.
60.11 Requests for nominations.
60.12 Nomination appeals.
60.13 Publication in the Federal Register and other NPS notification.
60.14 Changes and revisions to properties listed in the National 
          Register.
60.15 Removing properties from the National Register.


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    Authority: National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, 
16 U.S.C. 470 et seq., and E.O. 11593.

    Source: 46 FR 56187, Nov. 16, 1981, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 80 Stat. 915, 16 
U.S.C. 470 et seq., as amended, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior 
to expand and maintain a National Register of districts, sites, 
buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, 
architecture, archeology, engineering and culture. The regulations 
herein set forth the procedural requirements for listing properties on 
the National Register.
    (b) Properties are added to the National Register through the 
following processes.
    (1) Those Acts of Congress and Executive orders which create 
historic areas of the National Park System administered by the National 
Park Service, all or portions of which may be determined to be of 
historic significance consistent with the intent of Congress;
    (2) Properties declared by the Secretary of the Interior to be of 
national significance and designated as National Historic Landmarks;
    (3) Nominations prepared under approved State Historic Preservation 
Programs, submitted by the State Historic Preservation Officer and 
approved by the NPS;
    (4) Nominations from any person or local government (only if such 
property is located in a State with no approved State Historic 
Preservation Program) approved by the NPS and;
    (5) Nominations of Federal properties prepared by Federal agencies, 
submitted by the Federal Preservation Officer and approved by NPS.