Arkansas Historical Preservation Program
Arkansas Historical Preservation Program can be a good example of the state historical preservation program, because it is well coordinated with the federal historical preservation laws and it shows effectiveness in a sphere of the state cultural heritage protection. An activity of the Program is based on a number of effective laws, and it carried a number of effective measures in a sphere of the protection of cultural heritage of the state.
Stacy Hurst is the State Historic Preservation Officer of Arkansas (“Staff,” arkansaspreservation.com). She was a former Little Rock City Director, who was announced to be a new director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and a State Historic Preservation Officer by the Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson in the 2014 (“Stacy Hurst,” arktimes.com). Thus, she interests in a sphere of the preservation of the cultural heritage of Little Rock City as well as preservation of the cultural heritage of Arkansas in general (“Stacy Hurst,” arktimes.com). In Arkansas the State Historic Preservation Officer is a head of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, which was founded in the 1975 (“Department of Arkansas Heritage,” encyclopediaofarkansas.net). Arkansas Historical Preservation Program is one of the agencies of the Department of Arkansas Heritage (“Agencies,” arkansasheritage.com). In the 2014 the Department of Arkansas Heritage announced a plan of the development of new headquarters in a downtown of Little Rock City near the banks of Arkansas River, which were completed in the 2016. Thus, now the Arkansas Historical Preservation Program is located in these buildings (“Department of Arkansas Heritage,” encyclopediaofarkansas.net).
Arkansas Historical Preservation Program carries a number of the state financed projects, such as the Arkansas Historical Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program, which established a number of the taxes for a financing of the preservation of the historical buildings and a returning these building to a state of utility (“Rules Governing,” sos.arkansas.gov).
An activity of the Arkansas Historical Preservation Program is in accordance with the norms of the federal laws, such as the National Historic Preservation Act. A Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act states that the Federally funded projects in any state must “take into account the effect of the undertaking on any district, site, building, structure or object that is included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places” (“What is section 106?” arch-res.co). In this context, Arkansas Code 13-7-106 also states that the duty of the Arkansas Historical Preservation Program is to cooperate with federal, state, and local government agencies in a sphere of the preservation of historic properties of the sites, which have to be included in the State or National Register of Historic Places. The Arkansas Historical Preservation Program must take these properties into account in a sphere of the cooperation with the government on the planning of specific undertakings, which could affect these historic properties (“Arkansas Code 2012,” law.justia.com). The Program does not approve the projects of undertakings, but it provides a technical assistance to federal agencies in this sphere (“Section 106 Review Process,” …
