Secretary Of Interior Standards

They promote historic preservation best practices that will help to protect our nation s irreplaceable cultural resources.

Secretary of interior standards. The secretary of the interior s standards for the treatment of historic properties are common sense historic preservation principles in non technical language. They include both the exterior and the interior and extend to a property s landscape features site environment as well as related new construction. The secretary of the department of the interior has a series of standards to abide by regarding the maintenance replacement and repairing of historic materials as well as the design of new additions and alterations to a property.

The secretary of the interior s standards for rehabilitation codified as 36 cfr 67 are regulatory for the historic preservation tax incentives program. The secretary of the interior s standards and guidelines for archeology and historic preservation as amended and annotated provide technical advice about archeological and historic preservation activities and methods. The guidelines for rehabilitating historic buildings and the guidelines on sustainability for rehabilitating historic buildings which assist in applying the standards are advisory.

The national park service intends to revise the secretary of the interior s historic preservation professional qualifications standards which are authorized by the national historic preservation act nhpa. The secretary of the interior s standards for the treatment of historic properties and the guidelines for the treatment of cultural landscapes provide guidance to cultural landscape owners stewards and managers landscape architects preservation planners architects contractors and project reviewers prior to and during the planning and implementation of project work. The standards and guidelines can be applied to historic properties of all types materials construction sizes and use.