[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR61.3]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 61_PROCEDURES FOR STATE, TRIBAL, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT HISTORIC 
PRESERVATION PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  61.3  Implementation of this part.

    (a) National Park Service policy of management by exception. The 
National Park Service (NPS) will administer the regulations in this part 
in such a way (and where feasible) as to:
    (1) Limit the use of direct Federal management review procedures to 
high risk situations, to new programs, or to activities that are 
appropriate for the Federal Government to oversee;
    (2) Presume that State, tribal, and local government historic 
preservation officials manage their programs in an accountable way 
unless situations indicate the contrary; and
    (3) Rely to the maximum extent feasible on State, tribal, and local 
government systems of financial and program management that meet Federal 
standards. At the discretion of the Secretary, each State, tribal, and 
local government may substitute its own fiscal audit and management 
systems for the Secretary's comparable fiscal audit and management 
requirements, so long as the State, tribal, or local government system 
establishes and maintains accounting standards substantially

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similar to Federal standards and provides for independent peer review.
    (b) The Secretary's Standards. NPS will use the Secretary's 
Standards as technical performance standards for matters covered by this 
part. NPS may also use as technical performance standards (for matters 
covered by this part) additional guidance that NPS identifies and 
provides from time to time after appropriate consultation and notice.
    (c) Each State historic preservation program staff member, State 
Historic Preservation Review Board (Review Board) member, and certified 
local government (CLG) historic preservation review commission 
(Commission) member whom the Secretary has approved as meeting ``the 
Secretary's (Historic Preservation) Professional Qualifications 
Standards'' will retain that status, regardless of subsequent revisions 
to those Standards, until such time as that individual no longer works 
in that program, or serves on that Review Board, or serves on that 
Commission with which that individual was affiliated as of the date of 
that individual's approval.
    (d) You may obtain publications and other information mentioned in 
this part by contacting: Heritage Preservation Services, National Center 
for Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnership Programs, National 
Park Service, 1849 C Street NW (NC Suite 200), Washington, D.C. 20240 or 
via the National Park Service Home Page for cultural programs at http://
www.cr.nps.gov.