by amanda@acra-crm.org | Aug 26, 2026 | ACRAsphere, Section 106 Action Center
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....
by amanda@acra-crm.org | Aug 24, 2026 | ACRAsphere, Section 106 Action Center
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...
by amanda@acra-crm.org | Aug 24, 2026 | ACRAsphere, Section 106 Action Center
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...
by amanda@acra-crm.org | Aug 21, 2026 | ACRAsphere
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...
by amanda@acra-crm.org | Aug 19, 2026 | ACRAsphere, Section 106 Action Center
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...
by amanda@acra-crm.org | Aug 13, 2026 | ACRAsphere, Section 106 Action Center
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...
