National Park Service Annual Products Report for CLGs

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OMB Control Number 1024'0038
Expiration Date: October 31,2017
National Park Service
Heritage Preservation Assistance Programs
State, Tribal, and Local Plans & Grants Division

National Park service Annual Products Report for cLGs
LOCAL GOVERNMENT

NAME:

PERSON \ryHO CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS
ABOUT RESPONSES TO THIS

FORM:-

FEDERAL
FISCAL YEAR:
Please read "Guidance

(October

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STATE:

TELEPHONE:

E-MAIL:
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for Completing the National Park Service Annual Products Report for CLGs". This

guidance defines terms, explains what to count, answers freq uently-asked questions, etc.; e.g., what is the difference
o'Local Register"?
between "CLG Inventory" and

1. CI-:Ç Inventory Prosram
During the reporting period, how many historic properties did your local government
add to your CLG inventory?

2,

Local Landmarks and/or Historic Districts (a.k.a.. Local Resister) Prosram

a.

b.

During the reporting period, did your local government have the legal authorþ to create/amend
local landmarks/local historic districts (or a similar list of designations created by
local law)?

Yes[ Nol

If the answer to question 2a is "No," please leave question 2b's blank empty and proceed
ooYes,"
during the reporting period, how many historic
to question 3a. Iithe answer is
properties (i.e., contributing properties) in local historic districts/landmatks did your local
government add to your local register (or similar list created by local law)?

3.

Local Tax Incentives Prosram

a.

During the reporting period, did your community have a tax incentives program/process
.under local law that could be used to benefit (directly or indirectly) historic properties?

b.

please leave question 3b's blank empty and proceed
If the answer to question 3a is
during the reporting period, how many historic
is
answer
"Yes,"
question
If
the
4a.
to
through the local tax incentives program?
government
assist
proþerties did your local

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ooNo,'o

Yes! No!

LOCAL GOVERNMENT NAME:
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4.

Local "Bricks and Mortar" Grants/Loans Program

a.
b.
5.

STATE:

During the reporting period, did your community have a local government-funded
grantsTloans p.ogru- that could be used for rehabilitating/restoring/preserving
historic properties?

Yes! Nol

If the answer to question 4a is "No," please leave question 4b's blank empty and proceed
to question Sa. tithe answer is "Yes," during the reporting period, how many historic
properties did your local government assist through your local government's program?

Local Desisn Review/Resulatorv Comnliance Program

a.

b.

During the reporting period, did your local government have a historic preservation
regulaìory hw(s) (e.g., an ordinance requiring Commission/staff review of 1) local
go-vernmént activitiei and/or 2) changes to, or impacts on, properties within a historic
district)?

Yesl No!

If the answer to question 5a is 'oNo," please leave question 5b's blank empty and proceed
to question 6a. Iithe answer is "Yes," during the reporting period, how many historic
proþerties did yourrlocal government review for compliance with your local government's
historic preservation regulatory law(s)?

6.

Local Propertv Acquisition Prosram

a.
b.

aside from eminent domain, did your local government have
During the reporting period,
-be
to acquire (and/or help others to acquire) historic properties in
used
could
u progiu¡¡ thát
whole or in part through purchaseo donation' or other means?

Yes!

Non

If the answer to question 6a is "No," please leave question 6b's blank empty. You have
finished the Annual Report. If the answer is "Yes," during the reporting period, how many
historic properties did your local government acquire (and/or help others to acquire) in whole
or in part through purchase, donation, or other means?

Notes/Comments:

Thank you for frlling out this form. For maximum benefit, please send it, no later
State, Tribal, and Local Plans

than

,

to:

& Grants Division Attention: John Renaud

Preservation Assistance Programs

National Park Service
1 20 I Eye Street NW (Organization Code 2256),
Washingfon, DC 20005

Alternatively, feel free to send the report to John Renaud by fax at202-371-1794 or at [email protected] by email. If you want an electronic (Word) or other available version of this format and accompanying guidance, please
contact fônn Uy e-mail. There is also an on-line data entry option that is available for State CLG Program Coordinators
and a Google forms option that is available to you. If you have any questions, please contact John by telephone at202354-2066, by fax, or by e-mail
never be too late to provide this report's information. For information collection
burden language, see the guidance for completing the report.
Because of its long-terïn uses, it

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OMB Control Number 1024-0038
Expiration Date: October 31, 2017

Nation¡l Park Service
Heritage Preservation Assistance Programs
St¡te, Tribat, and Local Plans & Grants Division

GUIDANCE FOR COMPLETING
THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ANNUAL PRODUCTS REPORT FOR
CERTIFIED LOCAL GOVERI\MENTS (CLGS)

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What is the nurnose of
The report data that you provide each year contribute to documenting those achievements of the national
historið preservation partnership that CLGs accomplish. The data that we request all relate to key program
elementi for every CLG; i.e., the designation and protection of historic and prehistoric properties. Except for
the CLG inventory (which is a Federal requirement), this report focuses on CLG accomplishments under
local laws and prógrams. We have information from other sources concerning CLG contributions to historic
preservation underFederal and State law and programs. This report's data provide critical information and
documentation for the Administration's and the Congress' budgetary decision-making process. For your use
and perusal, we will post report results on our web site (http://www.nps.gov/clg -- click on the "Find a CLG
1Cf,ð Database)" button on the right hand column). For data entered on-line by the State CLG Coordinator,
the posting should be instantaneous once the system is fully updated for the curent year. In this way, we can
share infoimation about your program and achievements with your colleagues and with the public. We also
expect that this inforrqation will be useful to you and to your colleagues in your State Historic Preservation
Office. This information can be helpful in explaining to your local and State government decision-makers
what your program has accomplished for historic preservation during the year. We are seeking this
information because it is not available anywhere else on a national basis.

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In the catesories that you ask about. we have done nothins (or verv little). Do vou want us to send vou
a renort with such low numbers?
Your report is valuable to us no matter how little you have to report. The Annual Report only asks six
questions seeking numbers. Many CLGs respond to the questions by answering "0" or "1" because 1) one of
their programs is just getting started, 2) they had other historic preservation priorities for that reporting year,
3) the level of public demand was low for the program, 4) there was not much left to do in that program area,
or 5) because of a myriad of other reasons. We make no judgments of the quality of your historic preservation
program based upon the numbers that you supply in your annual reports. Don't worry about not having much
to report for a given year. We think that it is a big deal for any local government to commit in writing to
histoiic preservation by enforcing appropriate laws for the designation and protection of historic and
prehistoric properties. We recognizethatthe categories that we ask about do not cover all of the CLG's
activities.
Small CLGs with not much action in the categories that the National Park Service asks about are just as
important as big CLGs with a lot of action. Each year, approximately 900 (out of almost 1,900) CLGs
respond tg the annual report. We then extrapolate the figures from the reporting CLGs to produce national
estimates for all CLGs. Thus, the more CLGs that report, the more accurate the projections will be. Given
that there are more small CLGs than big ones, it is important that as many small CLGs as possible report;
otherwise our national projections will be too high.

Finally, it is useful to know which kinds of historic preservation programs your community has the legal
authority to carry out. This helps NPS to describe the national CLG program as a whole.

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we onlv iust became a cLG. Do vou still $/ant us to send You a report?
If your local government only recently became a CLG, there are a number of factors that should go into
*áting yourãecision of whether or not to complete a report. If your local government became a CLG prior
to Sepiember 1't, please prepare a report. If your local government became a CLG during September and you
haveäccomplishments tô report, pleâse prepare a report. If your local government be_came a CLG during
September and you have no accomplishments to report, it is up to you/your State CLG Coordinator as to
whether you shóuld prepare a report. If your local government became a CLG after the reporting period,
there is no need for you to prepare a report.

4.

Who can use the on-line data entrv option for submittins this renort?
Right now, other than National Park Service staff, only each State's CLG Program Coordinator has the option
of-using the on-line data entry option for this reporting. We will reexamine this policy within the next few
years. ihrr. is a data security iisue at play. With NPS' limited staffing available for this purpose, it is a lot
for 50 State CLG Coordinators than it would be to handle
ãasier to assign and administèr passwoids
-Cl-Cs.
As thç technology gets better and we gain more experience with-the_
passwords foi more than 1,900
use of the system, we will reexamine the issue of on-line data entry. Any State CLG Coordinator or official
CLG contact can use the Google forms option because that information does not go automatically into our
secure database.

5.

The on-Iine form has a different annearance than the hard-cony form which looks different than the
Goosle Forms version. WhY is that?
Most of the differences are due to creating an on-line data entry option and how that system works. A hard
copy or e-mail version of the form needs instructions on where to send the completed form; guidance that is
ctéarty not needed for the on-line version or the Google forms version. The fringe benefit of these revisions
is thai a CLG no longer needs to send in a new multi-year cumulative Baseline Questionnaire merely to
report a change in its local government historic preservation-related program area offerings. To preserve the
abillty to addã narrative note, on all versions of the form we have included a notes/comments box.
For similar structural reasons, the Google forms version looks different than the other versions.

6.

Do we have to use the form that NIPS has orovided?
ooYes." For the hard copy or
For the on-line version and the Google forms version of the form, the answer is
e-mailed version of the form, the answer is'oNo." We care more about the content of the data that you
provide than we care about the format in which you provide it or the medium by which you transmit it to us.
Às long as NpS can clearly tell which data relate to which question on the form and you provide information
corresponding to every blank on the form, we are satisfied. E-mail messages, spread sheets, State report
pages, etc. are all acceptable.

If you do choose to report to NPS using a different format, please be explicit about which parts of your
foimat (e.g., in your State-required report) match with each of the NPS form's questions. Also, please ensure
that the guldance for completing the alternative form is consistent with the guidance in this document'
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What defïnitions or snecial instructions do I need to know to pronerly complete this renort?
.oDesignation" as used in this document means that the local government has offrcially identified the property
as hisóric. Most CLGs have two levels of designation. That is, one level of designation is an evaluation of
significance that carries no consequences. CLGs often refer to this as "the inventory" or "the survey." The
otier level of designation carries consequences such as eligibility for benefits or some level of
protection/restriction such as being subjèct to design review for proposed changes. CLGs often refer to this
o'the
landmarks list,"'olocal historic districts," etc.
iecond level of designation as "the local register,"

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The'oFederal fiscal year" begins on October 1 and ends the following September 30. For example, Federal
Fiscal Year 2014 began on October 1,2013, and ended on Septembet 30,2014.
o'Historic Property" means a property that, regardless of government action (i.e., whether it is listed or not),
meets the eligibilþ criteria 1) for creating a local landmark and/or local historic district (a.k.a., 'ol-ocal
Register") oiZ¡ for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. A historic property can include
archeological as well as above-ground resources. Other properties are outside the purview of this
o'historic landmark," or
questionnaire. In some communities, this term.is equivalent to "historic resource,"
some other similar term.
Notes, Paradoxes, and Anomalies. If you wish to, please feel free to use the "Notes/Comments" section to
explain your answers, paradoxeso or anomalies. For example, it would be very unusual for a CLG to have a
design review program or a local tax incentives program or a "bricks and mortar" local grants/loans program
without also having the legal authority to create/amend a local landmark/local historic district. ln most
communities, a local designation is a prerequisite for a historic property to be eligible for/subject to the other

local programs.

Similarly, it would be very unusual for a CLG's accomplishments to produce identical, large numbers as the
answer io multiple questions. Finally, if a very large number is the answer to a question, it would be a good
idea to explain the accomplishment in the 'oNotes/Comments" section. Thus, NPS will feel confident that the
large number is not a typo and, more importantly, such information might merit explicit mention in a
State/l.[PS narrative report. Also, feel free to use the 'oNotes/Comments" section to identify noteworthy
accomplishments even if they are not large.
o'how many propefies" questions, do not use a check, an "X", or
Number Blanks - Numbers Only. For the
words such as "same as last yeat," "several," or "unknown." If your local government offered the program
during the reporting period, please insertoo0" if the subject matter applies, but there was no activity during the
last completed Federal fiscal year. If you are not sure what the correct answer is, please make your best

estimate.

Number Blanks - When to Complete/Relationship to 'rYes" and 'rNo" Boxes. For questions2b,3b,4b,
5b, and 6b, if the subject matter does not apply to your local government's historic preservation
programs/legal authorities/processes (i.e., you answered'oNo" to the "did you have the program" question),
ieave the related "historic properties" question's blank empty. For example, you should leave the blank
empty for question 3b if your government did not have a local government tax incentives program that could
o'No" for question 3a.
benefit historic properties and thus you answered
Generally, for every local program question for which you entered a "No'o in question 2ao3a,4a,5a, ot 6a,
we would expect to see an empty blank in question 2b,3b,4b, 5b, or 6b. Conversely, if you entered a "Yes"
for any "did you have a program" question, we would expect to see a number in the corresponding "how
many properties" question.
ooProgramo' means the legal authorization/authority (created by legislation or by administrative action) to
conduct a series of activities. As long as the authorizationlauthority exists, the program exists regardless of
whether or not the authorization/authority has been exercised during the reporting period. A good example in
many communities is the authority to create/amend historic districts. Often, the legal authority to
create/amend local historic districts exists but has not been used in a number of years.

"Protection"

as used in this document means that because

those elements that make the property historic.

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of government action, a historic property retains

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ooNo"
box as
Boxes. For question s 2a,3a,4a, 5a, and 6a, please mark or circle the "Yes" or
o'Yes,"
even if the
appropriate. If the program existed at any time during the reporting period, please answer
your
State
please
consult
answer,
what
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you
sure
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not
If
30t1.
September
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CLG Coordinator.

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8.

We don't use the same terminolosv that annears on the form and in this guidance. Do we have to
chanee how we refer to things?
That decision is between you and your State Historic Preservation OffÏce. A national report needs to use
national terms that follow Federal statutes and policy. For your o\ryn purposes, you should use terms that
make sense to you. All we ask is that you know how your terms relate to the national terms because we
won't understand the relationship. Therefore, for this report please make the conversion from your
terminology to the national terminology.

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The fiscal I'ear in mv State and communitv does not match the Federal Fiscal Year. What should

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do

in nrenarins this reoort?
Our first preference is that you convert your fiscal year's results to the Federal fiscal year. This is because we
a." prepaiing a report for Federal decision makers about accomplishments during a given fiscal year'
please pro-rate/estimate your fiscal year's results for
was accomplished during the Federal fiscal year is
of
what
year.
An
estimate
fiscal
conversion to the Federal
govemment's
Fiscal Yeat 2014 began on July 1,2013,
your
better than no response at all. For exampleo if
and ended on Jurre 30,20l4,your results converted to the FederalFY 2014 would be a combination of nine
month's (ot 75 percent) of you State's FY 2014 results plus three months (or 25 percent) of your State's FY
2015 results. If your FY 2015 (in this example) is not yet over when you prepare this report, make an
estimate now and send us an update later if needed.

If our first preference is not readily achievable for you,

Ifneither our first not our second preferences are readily achievable for you, provide the results in accordance
with your fiscal year. We would rather have data that is partially from the wrong fiscal year than have no
response at all.
10.

How do I renort on historió nronerties whose protection is not carried out or monitored bv mv òffice/
the Commission?
You don't have to. For the purposes of this inquiry, report only those historic properties whose designation
or protection has involved your local government's historic preservation office/commission in some way;
e.g., through review, approval, project administration, covenant or easement oversight, etc. or for which your
office has the data.

11.

66local register." but we do have other lists and
We don't have anythins called a 6'local inventor.v" or a
overlav zones that indicate historic properties. Should I count those? Should I include local
government-owned pronerties?

you can count the number of historic properties that those lists or overlays,include. Don't
worry aboui the-titles given to the information that you have about historic properties. Use the guidance in
the answer to question 13 (below) to help you determine where in the report to include the number of historic
properties. In iome cases, you should report the number in both the blanks for question I and question 2b
and in some cases just in the blank for question I about CLG inventories.
Yes, as long

as

With,regard to local government-owned properties, you should count them in the answer to question 2b only
if they are subject to local government historic preservation laws/policies. For the purposes of this report,
ownership of the property does not matter.

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Is there a relationship between the local landmarks/local historic districts ouestions and the other
questions in this renort?

yes. If your CLG

has a design review program, a local tax incentives program, and/or a local "bricks and

mortar" grants/loans progrurn, it most likely also has the legal authority to create/modiff local historic
if no local designation has taken place for a while. This relationship is due to the
districts/landmarks,
"ìrn
fact that most communities have a mechãnism through which historic properties are made eligible for local
benefits and/or made subject to local restrictions.
In most situations, you can think of historic properties that are on your list of local landmarks/historic
districts as a subsef of the historic properties that are included in your CLG inventory. Because of the
consequences under local law that oftón attend being added to a list of local landmarks/historic districts, in
the múlti-year, cumulative baseline context, a CLG will always have at least as many historic properties in its
CLG inventory than it has on its list of local landrnarks/historic districts. The annual additions to each will
vary.

13. What is the difference between a *CLG inventorv"

and a list of local landmarhs/historic districts

(a.k.a.. ttlocal register")?

As a CLG, under Federal law, you already have a CLG inventory, but you might not have locally-created
local landmarks/historic districis which we will refer to collectively as a "local register." You have a "local
register" only if your State's CLG procedures require it and/or your local government has created a
relistration/áesignation process under local law. Your community may have given your local register some
otñer name that means alist of logally-registered historic properties. Another way of putting it is that your
,olocal register" is the sum of all contributing properties in all of your local landmarks and in all of your local
historic districts.

A CLG inventory encompasses everything that you know about the resources within the jurisdiction of the
local government regardless of how you got the information. It doesn't matter, for example, if the inventory
information *ur guth.r"d as a part of a State or federally-funded survey. For question 1o we are interested in
the number of CiG inventory properties that are historic properties. Under Federal law, there are no legal
consequences when you add property to your CLG inventory. Your local register (or whatever name you
give it), on the other hand, usually has consequences under local law. In fact, if your State's CLG procedures
iequire a local registration/designation ordinance, there must be consequences under local law for properties
newly added to the local register. Usually, when a historic property is added to a local register, the propeÚy
becomes subject to some kind of review process and/or becomes eligible for some kind of local benefits. In
other words, every historic property that is on the local register is also on the CLG inventory, but not every
historic property on the CLG inventory is on the local register.

If your local government has the legal authority to create/amend local landmarks/local historic districts,
answer "Yes'i to question 2a even if that authority wasn't exercised during the reporting year.

14.

How should I count local historic districts?
Do not count a district as a single property. Count the total number of buildings, structures, sites, or objects
that contribute to the significance of the district. If you do not know the number of contributing properties,
please provide your best estimate of the number. NPS takes this position because historic preservation'
àecisions tend to affect individual properties within a district rather than the district as a whole.

15.

Last vear. due to demolition (or other reasons). we had to remove some propertiès from our CLG
inventor.v and/or our list of local landmarks/historic districts (a.k.a. '6local reeister"). Do vou want us
to, adjuJ our annual fïsures for the CLG inventorv and local reeister to reflect those losses?

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Just report the number of historic properties newly added to your CLG inventory and/or local register.
We don't wànt to have your successes obscured by your losses. However, if you have readily available an
estimate of the number of properties removed during the reporting year; please give us that information in the
notes/comments section. In such a situation, it would also be helpful to provide updated multi-year

No.

cumulative baseline frgures in the following year. For example, the impact of properties demolished during
FY 2014 would be reflected in adjusted multi-year cumulative baseline figures in the FY 2014 cumulative
Baseline Questionnaire.

L6.

For some of our local nrograms. the main purpose is not historic nreservation. but the prosraqts
n,ro,tect hisúòric properties as an incidental consequence. Housing nrograms are a sood example.
Should I count historic nronerties that are nrotected bv those nrosrams?
historic properties are protected and your office is involved or has the data, count the
programs and the historic properties that they protect.

Yes. As long

17.

as

Some historic pronerties are protected more than once le.s.. tax benefits achieved and nermits
a propertv onlv once or each time that it is reviewed. receives a qrant. etc.?

ffiount

Count a property each time that it is reviewed, receives a grùnt,etc. during the reporting yea-r. This approach
gives you credit for all the protection that you give to a historic property, not just the initial instance. Note
that for this reporting you do not have to know or provide a list of what happened to each historic property.
What you n..à to knÑ for this report are total figures for each category; i.e., the total number of properties
listed, receiving tax benefits, etc.
18.

There are some State laws that require local sovernment legislative action (e.s.. passins an ordinancel
for theiarl' to so into effect. This sometimes occurs with resard to Tax Incentives and sometimes with
regard other nrosrams. Would this situation count as a local prosram for the purposes of this reDort?
It depends. See the analysis below.
The Situation. There is a State law that provides direct andlor indirect protection to historic properties. The
State law a) rewards historic property owners for the historic significance of their properties, b) helps them to
correct problems threatening the properties' significance, and/or c) requires the owners to maintain the
properties for a specified period of time. The State law requires some degree of local government
some level of
þarticipation to implement the State legal authority. The State law might also requirelauthorize
law.
(SI{PO)
implement
the
to
participation by the State Historic Preservation Office
The Ouestion. The National Park Service (NPS) asks States to report on accomplishments under State law
and asks Certified Local Governments (CLGs) (either directly or through the SHPO) to report on
accomplishments under local law. Should a State law/program that requires local action for the protection of
historic properties be reported in the State Report, the CLG Report, or both?
Purposes and Principles. Some of the purposes for and principles behind the State and CLG reports

will help

answer the question.

a.

Both the State and the CLG reports are designed to help measure the success of the national historic
preservation partnership. As official partners, both States and CLGs carry out historic preservation
ãctivities that are not paid for by Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) and matching funds. We want to give
full credit to the historic preservation work that our partners do and avoid (where possible) the underreporting of accomplishments.

b.

The partnership work carried out outside of the FIPF grant program is not reported on a national basis
anywhere else. Therefore, the answer to the question must be one that does not lose the ability to get
credit for the protection made possible by such a hybrid State law.

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c.

NpS asks only for information that is (or should be) readily available. No record-keeping should be done
solely for the purposes of these two NPS reports.
the unit of measure for both the State and the CLG reports is the number of historic properties,
what wã are really counting is the number of times a historic property is protected. For example, if
during the reporting period a historic property both is awarded a Certificate of Appropriateness and a_
local tax incentive,-túat situation .ounìr as "two" (one in the Design Review category and one in the local
tax incentives category). Thus, if the answer to the question is to count the properties protected in both
the State and CLG reports that would not be double counting.

d. Although

e.

Often in historic preservation, there is not a clear division of responsibility for the result of an owner of a
historic propertyieceiving a local benefiVprotection under a State authorizationlmandate. For example,
to obtain u to.ui protection, a sign-off on eligibility could be required from both the SFIPO and the CLG
Commission.

f.

Nationwide (and sometime within a single State) there can be a great deal of variability in the role of the
State and the local historic preservation offices in the implementation of such a State hybrid law. It
would be overly cumbersome and nearly impossible for NPS to try to describe and provide an answer to
every possible iact pattern. Consequently, it makes sense to provide the range of possible answers and
the ðriieria that should be applied in arriving at the appropriate answer for the particular situation'

The Answer. ln the case of a hybrid law -- that is, a State law requiring some measure of local government
p".tt.þ"tt"" to confer a historic preservation benefit depending upon the situation, it could be appropriate
io ..pórt the resultant number of historic properties protected just in the CLG Report, just in the State Report,
or in both reports. Apply the criteria below to help determine the appropriate response in a given situation.

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The Criteria.

1)

Whose tax coffers are affected? For example, in a tax incentive situation, if the owner of a historic
property receives only a local tax benefit, then it could be appropriate to report the protection in the CLG
report.

2) Does the local government have any options in whether

or not (or how) to take advantage of the State
law? For examlle, if local gonern-"nt participation is mandatory and thus is acting solely as an agent
the State government, it could be reasonable to treat the program as a State program.

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3)

Which level of government is best able to keep track of the number of historic properties that take
advantage of thè property tax incentive? If only the SHPO or only the CLG has easy acoess to the
informaiion, that is where the prograrn should be reported. One of the principles behind the NPS repofts
is that we are asking only for information that is (or should be) readily available. No record-keeping
should be done solely for the purposes of these two NPS reports. The flip side of this criterion is that
SHPO and/or CLG possession of the data is a good rationale to include the data in the State and/or CLG
Report. We don't want to miss out on the data altogether.

4)

Which level of government has to review the application to determine the property's eligibility to take
advantage of the historic preservation benefit? A reasonable argument could be made that whichever
level of government's historic preservation offlrce makes the final decision regarding a historic property's
eligibilitt for the benefit should get credit for the protection. On the other hand, if both the State and
C1,b nisioric preservation bodies are involved in the process, an equally good argument could be made
that the final protection/benefit would not take place without the participation of both the State and thê
CLG and theiefore the number of historic properties protected should be reported in both the State and
the CLG reports.

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Other criteria? Depending upon the particular situation, there may be other criteria that would aid in the
decision of whetheì'to reporf the number of historic properties protected in the State Report, the CLG
Report, or both.

6)

How does your State CLG Program Coordinator recommend solving this issue? Please check with
her/him. Wittrin every State, simila. program questions should be resolved in a parallel fashion.

Orur h¡storic nreservation financial assistance nrograms (srants. loans. etc.ì are not funded everu vear.

Should

I report that

we have a prosram. or not?

It is helpful to think of this question in tenns of legal authorization for funding being separate from the actual
provision of funds.
oogrants/loans" blank (question
Answer "Yes" to question 4aandreport on the number of properties in the
4b), if the ordinanôe authorizing the frnancial assistance was still in effect during some portion of the
reporting year. If the authoriziÀg ordinance was not in effect at all during the reportingyear, and your local
g*rrntn"nt requires an authorizing statute for grant programs, answer "No" to question 4a and leave
question 4b's blank empty.

If no authorizing ordinance was involved in the financial assistance program, answer "Yes" to question 4a
and fill question 4b's blank with the number of newly protected properties if the financial assistance program
was in eifect during the reporting year. Otherwise, answer "No" to question 4a and leave the blank empty for
question 4b.
For the purposes ofthe local historic preservation grant or loan blank, count a historic property if
rehabiliiatiôn, restoration, preservation, etc. work (a.k.a. "bricks and mortar") is involved. Report elsewhere
(e.g., under Acquisition) those properties that your local grants or loans assisted in other ways (e.g., to help a
nonprofit organization purchase a preservation easement).

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We administer some srants from the State and the staff of the State Historic Preservation Office helDs

us¡l'ithiome of our locallv-funded nrosrams. Similarlv. in some Federal financial assistance
proerams. the Federal funds are lesally transformed into local funds. How should I treat these
situations in resnonding to question 4 on grants and loans?

Count only historic properties protected through grants supported by funds coming from local government
sources. Do not count: 1) grants from Federal (or matching) funds administered by State or local agencies or
2) State government grants-. For example, don't count historic properties that you protect through Historic
Pieservaiiorr Fund CLG subgrants. These are counted elsewhere on State or Federal Government forms.
Howevero if the funds are loõal, count the benefiting historic properties in this report even if you receive
technical assistance from other sources. See question 13 above for additional guidance in related situations.

Similarly, count in this report those few Federal (or State) programs that award funds to local governments
and for which, as a mattei of Federal (or State) law, those funds legally become transformed from Federal (or
Stut ; to local funds. This is a rare situation. The best known Federal example is the Community
Development Block Grant program.

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Manl' of the historic preser.vation accomplishments in our communitv are achieved throu9h the
filrancial sunm,ort of the private sector or throush non-nrofit oreanizations such as the National Main
Súreet n,rosram. Siould we include these achievements in our renortins on the number of historic
pronerties that we nrotect through srants or loans?
a large percentage of current historic preservation would not take place
without the financial support of non-profît organizations and the private sector, this report is focusing on the
achievements of local gôvernment historic preservation programs. However, action by one of these

No. Although we recognize that

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organizations does not prevent the counting of a property/protection if it simultaneously receives a local
go-vernment benefit. One example would be a simultaneous Main Street and local historic district
designation.

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