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Section 106 Guidelines and Links
The main protection archaeological sites have against the encroachment of federally-funded programs in the United States is called Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
Nellie Longsworth Reports on Proposed Section 106 Changes
Even though the vote on the proposed changes to Section 106 of teh National Historic Preservation Act did not get out of subcommittee, historic preservation's guiding light Nellie Longsworth reports that the battle to educate Congress on the knowledge we gain as a nation through archaeology about our past has just begun.
United States Cultural Resources Laws in Jeopardy: The Nunes Amendment
This week, the United States House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks has proposed a language change to long-standing legislation protecting archaeological resources that may well seriously alter the way cultural resource management is handled in the United States.
Thinking About Cultural Resource Management
One of Tom King's contributions to the education of archaeologists conducting commercial archaeology in the United States is entitled Thinking About Cultural Resource Management, and it includes around twenty of his diatribes, er, essays, on the ins and outs of the Section 106 process.