Assistance program
Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund
$144.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Park Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 15.957
- What it does
- The objectives of this supplemental funding is to provide for necessary expenses related to the consequences of disasters, including costs to States, Tribes, and territories. Funds may be used for historic and cultural resource preservation work in the program areas defined by the National Historic Preservation Act (54 USC 3001 et seq.) and that meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation. Capacity, technical assistance, and emergency repairs to historic and archeological resources impacted by disasters, consistent with legislative intent, may be funded. Funding should substantially mitigate disaster caused damage and mitigate future risk.
- Who benefits
- States and Tribes
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are defined as applicants in either the National Historic Preservation Act (54 USC 3001 et seq.), appropriations law and/or congressionally approved spending plans. They may include: State Historic Preservation Offices in the 50 states, 5 territories, 3 Freely Associated States, and District of Columbia (SHPOs); States; Tribal governments with signed Memorandum of Agreements with the National Park Service to assume the duties of the State Historic Preservation Office on Tribal lands, as defined in 54 USC 3001 et seq. (THPOs); Federally-recognized Tribes, Alaska Native Villages/Corporations, and Native Hawaiian Organizations as defined by 54 USC § 300309, 54 USC 300313 and 54 USC 300314 (Tribes); local governments (including Certified Local Governments); and/or nonprofits. Some programs may not be open to all of these entities, dependent on Congressional intent. Eligible projects must be for sites listed in or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, or similar Tribal register, and must be located within areas receiving FEMA major disaster declarations under the Stafford Act. If not listed, projects must prepare a nomination and secure listing by the NPS prior to the completion of the grant project.
- Authorized by
- National Historic Preservation Act, 54 U.S.C 3001 et.seq.;Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 (P.L. 113-2); Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-123
- Program site
- http://go.nps.gov/disaster ↗
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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