National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

So it's, let's see, I see the list.

The Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, Historic Preservation Act, Coastal Enamel Protections, Noise.

I mean, they're talking about doing at least three launches a week.

Three launches a week.

This country is so haunted.

Thanks in part to pressure from indigenous activists like these, the law slowly began to change, starting with the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966, and the Archaeological Resources and Protection Act in 1979.

Both laws helped establish more protections for Native archaeological sites and began to shift the control of those sites back to Native peoples.

Then, in 1990, came a super significant piece of legislation, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA.

The president has jurisdiction of the national parks, of which one the White House is one of many.

The White House is exempt from the National Historic Preservation Act.

meaning the president, through the National Park Service, responsible for renovating and maintaining the property.

There's no rule or law which states the president is not legally allowed to renovate the White House.

So there are structural fixes to the Clean Water Act we can talk about.

More recently, Senator Lee from Utah is interested in addressing the National Historic Preservation Act.

So that's another part of permitting reform where there's all these protections on historic properties and objects and it's It's one of those things where it sounds good and we do want to protect a lot of those properties and objects and places.

But it has been very much hijacked to result in litigation that creates a lot of delays and prohibits energy infrastructure from coming online in a timely fashion.

Yeah.

Pete, as soon as you question things like historical,

uh, um, um, What's it called? National Historic Preservation Act.

As soon as you mention that, people are like, oh, you're going to put a microreactor on George Washington's house.

In her latest ruling, Chutkin ordered the administration to provide the court at least 48 hours notice before engaging in any activity at the site except the efforts to gather information on archaeological resources beneath subsurface fill materials.

as required under the National Historic Preservation Act.

She also reiterated that any construction or demolition in preparation for construction before the National Park Service issues final authorization or without providing 14 days notice would violate Friday's order and her previous consent order.

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The proposed 250-foot arch planned for Memorial Circle between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery has not been approved by the National Capital Planning Commission, the last of the two agencies that need to review and approve the work.

Nor has it gone through a full review necessary under the National Historical Preservation Act.

The FAA's final aeronautical study looking at the safety impact to the nearby airport has also not been finished.

And the project is still bogged down in the courts, with a veterans' rights group seeking a temporary restraining order Friday, saying the arch obstructs the view of D.C. from Arlington Cemetery.

That survey work was always needing to be done.

It was always anticipated that it would be done.

Before getting proper approvals, it was needed to comply with the National Historical Preservation Act.

That does not mean that this work will actually be work on the arch.

President Trump is about to break ground on construction of the two hundred fifty foot tall gold topped arch he's been talking about for months.

It's moving forward even before a federal commission has approved the project and before it's been reviewed under the National Historic Preservation Act.

Both of those are legally required.

The project is also facing a challenge in the courts.

There are some potential shortcuts here, but there's no evidence right now that this process has even started.

Second, they would need to get compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.

This is overseen by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

And again, normally, this would take a long, long time.