Join the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance and its partners as we offer a free, hour long virtual presentation on this important tool that can be used to inform historic resource decision making in towns and cities across the state By law, Section 106 is triggered when a federal action (i.e. funding, permitting, or licensing) may affect properties that qualify for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. National Register properties can include archaeological sites, bridges, railroads, houses, schools, churches, historic districts, large landscapes and much more.

Over one thousand projects a year are reviewed statewide under the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resource’s Review and Compliance Program. The Section 106 process identifies significant properties and takes into account proposed project impacts and their effects. A variety of federal and state agencies, advocates, and the public share concerns and work through the Section 106 process to outlines ways to avoid, minimize, or mitigate these impacts. By working together, projects can often be implemented with minimal change to historic properties.

We will share a case study in the Seacoast that identified a variety of significant properties, including the University of New Hampshire and the Little Bay Cable Houses; worked closely with project engineers to avoid and minimize impacts to historic properties; and developed creative mitigation to resolve the adverse effects that the project had to National Register eligible and listed properties.

Nadine Miller, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer at the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources will present a Section 106 overview and will take your questions about the process or specific projects in your community. She has worked for both the private and public sectors implementing Section 106 for over thirty years.

Lynne Emerson Monroe, Principal at Preservation Company who has been working in historic preservation in New Hampshire since 1978, along with Brooke Kenline-Nyman, Cultural Resources Specialist for Eversource Energy and professional archaeologist with nearly twenty years’ experience, will present the case study and the project’s efforts to avoid, minimize, and mitigate impacts to historic properties.

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