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There’s Still Time: Take the Survey on Employee Numbers by State
If your organization has not yet taken the survey collecting the number of employees by state, we urge you to do so now! Your participation only takes a few minutes and could be crucial to the fight to protect Section 106. ACRA is aiming to provide is the most current...
Your Congress in Action: September 8, 2026
When the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia over the sweltering summer of 1787, one question loomed as large as any other: should the government be headed by an all-powerful individual, a “national executive?” Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson, a renowned...
Webinar 9/17: From Expert to Expert Witness: What CRM Practitioners Need to Know
CRM practitioners are experts in many aspects of cultural heritage. They are also on the front line of cultural resource compliance and stewardship. Transferring this expertise into the legal system as an expert witness is rewarding and lucrative while opening a new...
ACRA Letter to Congress on Proposed ACHP Regulations
ACRA has written to Congress expressing its opposition to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's (ACHP) radical overhaul of the regulations that implement Section 106 of the NHPA. Reminding Congress that Section 106 has helped the country strike a balance...
ACRA Meeting with OIRA
ACRA leadership met with the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Monday to express its profound concerns about the ACHP's radical overhaul of the regulations that implement Section 106 and call on the ACHP to rescind and rewrite it. OIRA is...
Department of Interior Secretarial Order on Section 106
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued a Secretarial Order intended to accelerate the Section 106 process. The Order, "Timely Completion of National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Reviews" (Order No. 3452), was issued August 20. Its stated purpose is to...
Your Congress in Action: August 24, 2026
Gas cost an average of $1.33 a gallon. “Centerfold” by the J. Geils Band was the number one song in the country. And On Golden Pond, starring Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn, was tops at the box office. But for the preservation community, the big news in February...
SBA Proposes Massive Changes to Small Business Size Standards
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has proposed big changes to its size standards, which if implemented would redefine many more CRM firms as small businesses. The SBA is required by law to review existing size standards and the methodologies it uses to...
Not Our First Rodeo
This post is authored by Charles M. Niquette, founding member of ACRA and Chairman of the Board of Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Many in the historic preservation community are understandably alarmed by the current effort to eviscerate the regulations implementing...
How Your Firm Can Act: Request a Meeting with OIRA
CRM firms have an opportunity to express their views directly to the federal government about the ACHP's radical overhaul of the regulations that implement Section 106. All proposed regulatory changes must be reviewed by the Office of Information and Regulatory...