Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act

ATSSA advocated for an increase to the federal gas tax as well as a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. ATSSA advocated for H.R. 2084, Partnership to Build America Act of 2013 and H.R. 1846, the Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure Act to be considered during debate of the FAST Act and its conference committee.

Client expense: $70,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

ATSSA advocated for an increase to the federal gas tax as well as a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. ATSSA advocated for H.R. 2084, Partnership to Build America Act of 2013 and H.R. 1846, the Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure Act to be considered during debate of the FAST Act and its conference committee.

Client expense: $70,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

ATSSA advocated for an increase to the federal gas tax, as well as, a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. ATSSA has advocated for H.R. 2084, Partnership to Build America Act of 2013 and H.R. 1846, the Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure Act to be considered during debate of the FAST Act and its conference committee.

Client expense: $90,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

ATSSA advocated for an increase to the federal gas tax, as well as, a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. ATSSA has advocated for H.R. 2084, Partnership to Build America Act of 2013 and H.R. 1846, the Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure Act to be brought to the House floor for consideration or to be incorporated in a long-term surface transportation reauthorization.

Client expense: $110,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

ATSSA advocated for an increase to the federal gas tax, as well as, a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. ATSSA has advocated for H.R. 2084, Partnership to Build America Act of 2013 and H.R. 1846, the Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure Act to be brought to the House floor for consideration.

Client expense: $80,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

ATSSA advocated for an increase to the federal gas tax, as well as, a long-term funding solution for the Highway Trust Fund. ATSSA has advocated for H.R. 2084, Partnership to Build America Act of 2013 and H.R. 1846, the Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure Act.

Client expense: $80,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Federal Highway Administration (FHA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

H.R.1033 - American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 H.R.4049 - Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act H.R.706 - Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act H.R.520 - Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act H.R.5821 - Fort Frederica National Monument Boundary Expansion Act of 2014 H.R.1513 - To revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station and certain land along Plum Run in Cumberland Township, to limit the means by which property within such revised boundaries may be acquired, and for other purposes. H.R.3806 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Agreement Act of 2014 H.R.664 - Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act H.R.445 - National Heritage Area Act of 2013 H.R.5003 - Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014 H.R.1846 - Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act H.R.1208 - Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act H.R.298 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the Mill Springs Battlefield located in Pulaski and Wayne Counties, Kentucky, and the feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. H.R.1501 - Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument Preservation Act H.R.3929 - Pullman National Historical Park Act H.R.885 - San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013 H.R.1934 - Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013 H.R.2015 - Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 H.R.2271 - Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act H.R.3917 - Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 H.R.3922 - Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 H.R.3979 - Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 S.2031 - Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act S.371 - Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act S.225 - Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act S.2987 - Fort Frederica National Monument Boundary Expansion Act of 2014 S.782 - Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act S.2744 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Agreement Act of 2014 S.247 - Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act S.2571 - Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014 S.925 - Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Improvement Act of 2013 S.311 - Lower Mississippi River Area Study Act S.507 - Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act S.1389 - A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Fort Greene Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, as a unit of the National Park System. S.1962 - Pullman National Historical Park Act S.974 - Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 S.305 - Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act S.1949 - Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 S.2410 - Carl Levin National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 S.2580 - Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2014 No Legislation yet California Desert Protection Act amendments Rim of the Valley National Monument Waco Mammoth National Monument Establishment

BILLS: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 (HR 83, PL 113-235) GOV; Tax Reform Act of 2014 (HR 1)--TAX; Creating American Prosperity through Preservation Act of 2011 (S. 1141/HR 5655) -- TAX; Manhattan Sites Project National Historical Park Act (S. 507/HR 1208) - SCI/NAT; Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act HR 1459 (and any amendments that propose weakening the Antiquities Act of 1906) - NAT; Water Resources Development Act(HR 3080/S. 601) -- BUD; Patterson Great Falls National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act (S. 1189) NAT; Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act of 2013 (HR 2430) - NAT; Civil Rights Heritage Trail Act (HR 2416) -- NAT; American Battlefield Protection Amendments Act of 2013 (HR 1033) NAT; A bill to extend the exemption from the fire-retardant materials construction requirement for vessels operating within the Boundary Line (HR 1961/S.1022/S. 2924) MAR; Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act (HR 1348) NAT; Lower East Tenement National Historic Site Amendments (HR 1846/S. 925) NAT; Pullman National Historic Site Study Act (HR 3929/S. 1962) NAT; Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 (HR 5021) TRA; MAP-21 Re authorization Act (S. 2322) TRA; Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4005) MAR; National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (HR 4435/S.2289) -- DEF/NAT; Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY2015 (HR 5171) BUD; Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act of 2013 (HR 596) ENR/NAT; Postal Facilities Preservation and Sales Reform Act (HR 5377) GOV/POS. FEDERAL AGENCY CONTACTS AND ISSUES Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) - Section 106/4(f), cultural resource reviews in transportation projects; provided the National Trusts report on management of cultural resources in the Veterans Administration portfolio and requested their assistance in getting the VA to consider implementing the reports recommendations. Mitigating impacts of proposed gravel pit mine within Elkhorn Ranch (ND) National Register District. Closure of Battle Mountain Sanitarium VA medical facility (SD). Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) ACOE National Historic Preservationist and ACOE Project Manager re: town of Zoar (OH) relocation and flood reduction measures; Willamette River Locks Closure and De-accession (OR), and the San Juan Waterworks (PR) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS); cultural resources funding and management; sacred sites; oil and gas development affecting the Greater Chacoan Landscape and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appropriate use of Executive Branch authority to use the Antiquities Act for national monument proclamations; federal funding for historic preservation, cultural and historic resources on public land; discussion about VAs systemic lack of compliance with NEPA. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Preservation of Green Mountain Lookout and wilderness designation issues; met with USFS officials regarding oil and gas leasing in the Little Missouri National Grasslands; the use of the leasing authority of Section 111 of the National Historic Preservation Act; management issues surrounding Theodore Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch. Department of the Interior (DOI) -- Historic Preservation Fund allocation and funding levels; administration of federal rehabilitation tax credit; Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act; Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Department of Transportation (DOT) & Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - Environmental streamlining and surface transportation; Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA); Section 4(f) review; surface transportation planning funding.National Park Service (NPS) further discussion of management plan issues surrounding Ft. Monroe National Monument; cultural and historic resource funding; protection of culturally-diverse historic sites; oil and gas leasing around Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Elkhorn Ranch; status of NPS funds for the completion of the restoration of cabins on the White Grass Dude Ranch; meeting about oil and gas leasing near Chaco Culture National Historical Park; meetings with Chief of National Park Maintenance and Associate Director of Cultural Resource Programs to review and discuss potential historic preservation projects that could be performed by youth corps as part of a new program called HOPE Crews (Hands on Preservation Experience); met with Cultural Resources Program staff regarding the Cultural Resources Challenge; implementation and expansion of historic leasing in the parks as one of the strategies to reduce maintenance backlogs. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) -- funding for Bureau of Land Management cultural resources and the National Landscape Conservation System. Funding for the National Park Service cultural resources account, operations of the National Park Service. Treasury/Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Ongoing meetings to discuss IRS guidance and safe harbor provisions for historic tax credit deals and structured partnership investments. Veterans Affairs (VA) Worked with VA to find an acquisition process and create a veterans-only HOPE Crew for restoration of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. Ongoing discussion with VA officials and veterans groups/stakeholders to implement National Trust recommendations regarding keeping the Battle Mountain Sanitarium VA facility in South Dakota open.

Legislative Bills: Draft Discussion Tax Reform bill (HR 1); Creating American Prosperity through Preservation Act of 2011 (S. 1141/HR 5655) -- TAX;; Manhattan Sites Project National Historical Park Act (S. 507/HR 1208) - SCI/NAT; Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act HR 1459 (and any amendments that propose weakening the Antiquities Act of 1906) - NAT; Water Resources Development Act (HR 3080/S. 601) -- BUD; Patterson Great Falls National Historical ParkBoundary Adjustment Act (S. 1189) NAT; Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act of 2013 (HR 2430) - NAT; Civil Rights Heritage Trail Act (HR 2416) -- NAT; American Battlefield Protection Amendments Act of 2013 (HR 1033) NAT; A bill to extend the exemption from the fire-retardant materials construction requirement for vessels operating within the Boundary Line (HR 1961/S.1022) MAR; Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act (HR 1348) NAT; Lower East Tenement National Historic Site Amendments (HR 1846/S. 925) NAT; Pullman National Historic Site Study Act (HR 3929/S. 1962) NAT; Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 (HR 5021) TRA; MAP-21 Reauthorization Act (S. 2322) TRA; Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4005) MAR; National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (HR 4435/S. 2289) -- DEF/NAT; Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY2015 (HR 5171) BUD; Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act of 2013 (HR 596) ENR/NAT; Postal Facilities Preservation and Sales Reform Act (HR 5377) GOV/POS. FEDERAL AGENCY CONTACTS AND ISSUES Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) - Section 106/4(f), cultural resource reviews in transportation projects; Review of Yosemite National Park management plan and preservation of the parks collection of historic bridges that span the Merced River; provided the National Trusts report on management of cultural resources in the Veterans Administration portfolio and requested their assistance in getting the VA to consider implementing the reports recommendations. Mitigating impacts of proposed gravel pit mine within Elkhorn Ranch (ND) National Register District. Closure of Battle Mountain Sanitarium VA medical facility (SD). Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) ACOE National Historic Preservationist and ACOE Project Manager re: town of Zoar (OH) relocation and flood reduction measures; Willamette River Locks Closure and De-accession (OR), and the San Juan Waterworks (PR) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS); cultural resources funding and management; sacred sites; oil and gas development affecting the Greater Chacoan Landscape and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appropriate use of Executive Branch authority to use the Antiquities Act for national monument proclamations; federal funding for historic preservation, cultural and historic resources on public lands. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Preservation of Green Mountain Lookout and wilderness designation issues; met with USFS officials regarding oil and gas leasing in the Little Missouri National Grasslands; public comments on forthcoming Chimney Rock National Monument management plan; the use of the leasing authority of Section 111 of the National Historic Preservation Act; management issues surrounding Theodore Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch. Department of the Interior (DOI) -- Historic Preservation Fund allocation and funding levels; administration of federal rehabilitation tax credit; Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act; Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Department of Transportation (DOT) & Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - Environmental streamlining and surface transportation; Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA); Section 4(f) review; surface transportation planning funding. National Park Service (NPS) further discussion of management plan issues surrounding Ft. Monroe National Monument; cultural and historic resource funding; protection of culturally-diverse historic sites; Yosemite National Park - Merced River Plan consultation; oil and gas leasing around Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Elkhorn Ranch; status of NPS funds for the completion of the restoration of cabins on the White Grass Dude Ranch; meeting about oil and gas leasing near Chaco Culture National Historical Park; meetings with Chief of National Park Maintenance and Associate Director of Cultural Resource Programs to review and discuss potential historic preservation projects that could be performed by youth corps as part of a new program called HOPE Crews (Hands on Preservation Experience); met with Cultural Resources Program staff regarding the Cultural Resources Challenge; implementation and expansion of historic leasing in the parks as one of the strategies to reduce maintenance backlogs.Office of Management and Budget (OMB) -- funding for Bureau of Land Management cultural resources and the National Landscape Conservation System. Funding for the National Park Service cultural resources account, operations of the National Park Service. Treasury/Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Ongoing meetings to discuss IRS guidance and safe harbor provisions for historic tax credit deals and structured partnership investments. Veterans Affairs (VA) Worked with VA to find an acquisition process and create a veterans-only HOPE Crew for restoration of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. Ongoing discussion with VA officials and veterans groups/stakeholders to implement National Trust recommendations regarding the Battle Mountain Sanitarium VA facility in South Dakota open.

Legislative Contacts: Ways and Means (Camp) Draft Discussion Tax Reform bill (HR 1); Creating American Prosperity through Preservation Act of 2011 (S. 1141) - TAX; Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act (HR 908/S. 404)- NAT; Manhattan Sites Project National Historical Park Act (S. 507/HR 1208) - SCI/NAT; Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act HR 1459 (and any amendments that propose weakening the Antiquities Act of 1906); - NAT; Water ResourcesDevelopment Act (HR 3080/S. 601) - BUD; Patterson Great Falls National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act (S. 1189) NAT; Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act of 2013 (HR 2430) - NAT; Civil Rights Heritage Trail Act (HR 2416)- NAT; American Battlefield Protection Amendments Act of 2013 (HR 1033) NAT; A bill to extend the exemption from the fire-retardant materials construction requirement for vessels operating within the Boundary Line (HR 1961/S. 1022) MAR; Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act (HR 1348) NAT; Lower East Tenement National Historic Site Amendments (HR 1846/S. 925) NAT; Pullman National Historic Site Study Act (HR 3929/S. 1962) NAT; MAP-21 Reauthorization Bill (DRAFT) TRA; Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4005) MAR; Bipartisan Sportmen's Act of 2014, Title II, Sec. 202: FLTFA Reauthorization (S. 2363) - NAT: National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (HR 1960)/HR. 3034) - DEF/NAT. Federal Agency Contacts and Issues: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) - Section 106/4(f), cultural resource reviews in transportation projects; Review of Yosemite National Park management plan and preservation of the parks collection of historic bridges that span the Merced River; provided the National Trusts report on management of cultural resources in the Veterans Administration portfolio and requested their assistance in getting the VA to consider implementing the reports recommendations. Formally participated in Section 106 compliance for proposed gravel pit within Elkhorn Ranch (ND) National Register District. Requested involvement in Section 106 process at the Veterans Administration National Historic Landmark (NHL) Battle Mountain Sanitarium (SD) -- including a request for a 213 report. Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) ACOE National Historic Preservationist and ACOE Project Manager re: town of Zoar (OH) relocation and flood reduction measures; Willamette River Locks Closure and De-accession (OR), and the San Juan Waterworks (PR) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS); cultural resources funding and management; sacred sites; oil and gas development affecting the Greater Chacoan Landscape and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appropriate use of Executive Branch authority to use the Antiquities Act for national monument proclamations; federal funding for historic preservation, cultural and historic resources on public lands. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Preservation of Green Mountain Lookout and wilderness designation issues; met with USFS officials regarding oil and gas leasing in the Little Missouri National Grasslands; public comments on forthcoming Chimney Rock National Monument management plan; the use of the leasing authority of Section 111 of the National Historic Preservation Act ; management issues surrounding Theodore Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch. Department of the Interior (DOI) - Historic Preservation Fund allocation and funding levels; administration of federal rehabilitation tax credit; Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act; Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Department of Transportation (DOT) & Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - Environmental streamlining and surface transportation; Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA); Section 4(f) review; surface transportation planning funding. National Park Service (NPS) further discussion of management plan issues surrounding Ft. Monroe National Monument; cultural and historic resource funding; protection of culturally-diverse historic sites; Yosemite National Park - Merced River Plan consultation; oil and gas leasing around Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Elkhorn Ranch; status of NPS funds for thecompletion of the restoration of cabins on the White Grass Dude Ranch; meeting about oil and gas leasing near Chaco Culture National Historical Park; meetings with Chief of National Park Maintenance and Associate Director of Cultural Resource Programs to review and discuss potential historic preservation projects that could be performed by youth corps as part of a new program called HOPE Crews (Hands on Preservation Experience); met with Cultural Resources Program staff regarding the Cultural Resources Challenge; discussed implementation of historic leasing in the parks as one of the strategies to reduce maintenance backlogs. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - funding for Bureau of Land Management cultural resources and the National Landscape Conservation System. Funding for the National Park Service cultural resources account, operations of the National Park Service. Treasury-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Ongoing meetings to discuss IRS guidance and safe harbor provisions for historic tax credit deals and structured partnership investments. VA Worked with VA to find an acquisition process and create a veterans-only HOPE Crew for restoration of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. Ongoing discussion with VA officials and veterans groups/stakeholders to implement National Trust recommendations regarding the Battle Mountain Sanitarium VA facility in South Dakota open.

H.R.298 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the Mill Springs Battlefield located in Pulaski and Wayne Counties, Kentucky, and the feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. H.R.445 National Heritage Area Act of 2013 H.R.520 Buffalo Soldiers in National Parks Study Bill H.R.644 Delaware River Basin Conservation Act of 2013 H.R.664 Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act H.R.706 Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act H.R.716 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to the city of Vancouver, Washington, and for other purposes H.R.885 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013 H.R.1033 American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 H.R.1208 Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act H.R.1459 Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act H.R.1513 To revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station and certain land along Plum Run in Cumberland Township, to limit the means by which property within such revised boundaries may be acquired, and for other purposes H.R.1846 Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act H.R.1934 Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013 H.R.2015 Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 H.R.2192 National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act H.R.2497 Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2013 H.R.3917 Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 H.R.3929 Pullman National Historical Park Act H.R.4049 Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act S.225 Buffalo Soldiers in National Parks Study Bill S.247 Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act S.285 Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act S.305 Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act S.311 Lower Mississippi River Area Study Act S.354 Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013 S.371 Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act S.507 Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act S.782 Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act S.916 American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 S.974 Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 S.1962 Pullman National Historical Park Act No Legislation Yet American West Monument Interstate 11 Vicksburg World Heritage Areas

Legislative Contacts: Ways and Means (Camp) Draft Discussion Tax Reform bill (HR 1); Creating American Prosperity through Preservation Act of 2011 (S. 1141) - TAX; Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act (HR 908/S. 404)- NAT; Manhattan Sites Project National Historical Park Act (S. 507/HR 1208) - SCI/NAT; Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act HR 1459 (and any amendments that propose weakening the Antiquities Act of 1906); - NAT; Water ResourcesDevelopment Act (HR 3080/S. 601) - BUD; Patterson Great Falls National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act (S. 1189) NAT; Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act of 2013 (HR 2430) - NAT; Civil Rights Heritage Trail Act (HR 2416)- NAT; American Battlefield Protection Amendments Act of 2013 (HR 1033) NAT; A bill to extend the exemption from the fire-retardant materials construction requirement for vessels operating within the Boundary Line (HR 1961/S. 1022) MAR; Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act (HR 1348) NAT; Lower East Tenement National Historic Site Amendments (HR 1846/S. 925) NAT; Pullman National Historic Site Study Act (HR 3929/S. 1962) NAT; MAP-21 Reauthorization Bill (DRAFT) TRA; Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4005) MAR; Bipartisan Sportmen's Act of 2014, Title II, Sec. 202: FLTFA Reauthorization (S. 2363) - NAT: National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (HR 1960)/HR. 3034) - DEF/NAT. Federal Agency Contacts and Issues: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) - Section 106/4(f), cultural resource reviews in transportation projects; Review of Yosemite National Park management plan and preservation of the parks collection of historic bridges that span the Merced River; provided the National Trusts report on management of cultural resources in the Veterans Administration portfolio and requested their assistance in getting the VA to consider implementing the reports recommendations. Formally participated in Section 106 compliance for proposed gravel pit within Elkhorn Ranch (ND) National Register District. Requested involvement in Section 106 process at the Veterans Administration National Historic Landmark (NHL) Battle Mountain Sanitarium (SD) -- including a request for a 213 report. Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) ACOE National Historic Preservationist and ACOE Project Manager re: town of Zoar (OH) relocation and flood reduction measures; Willamette River Locks Closure and De-accession (OR), and the San Juan Waterworks (PR) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS); cultural resources funding and management; sacred sites; oil and gas development affecting the Greater Chacoan Landscape and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appropriate use of Executive Branch authority to use the Antiquities Act for national monument proclamations; federal funding for historic preservation, cultural and historic resources on public lands. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Preservation of Green Mountain Lookout and wilderness designation issues; met with USFS officials regarding oil and gas leasing in the Little Missouri National Grasslands; public comments on forthcoming Chimney Rock National Monument management plan; the use of the leasing authority of Section 111 of the National Historic Preservation Act ; management issues surrounding Theodore Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch. Department of the Interior (DOI) - Historic Preservation Fund allocation and funding levels; administration of federal rehabilitation tax credit; Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act; Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Department of Transportation (DOT) & Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - Environmental streamlining and surface transportation; Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA); Section 4(f) review; surface transportation planning funding. National Park Service (NPS) further discussion of management plan issues surrounding Ft. Monroe National Monument; cultural and historic resource funding; protection of culturally-diverse historic sites; Yosemite National Park - Merced River Plan consultation; oil and gas leasing around Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Elkhorn Ranch; status of NPS funds for thecompletion of the restoration of cabins on the White Grass Dude Ranch; meeting about oil and gas leasing near Chaco Culture National Historical Park; meetings with Chief of National Park Maintenance and Associate Director of Cultural Resource Programs to review and discuss potential historic preservation projects that could be performed by youth corps as part of a new program called HOPE Crews (Hands on Preservation Experience); met with Cultural Resources Program staff regarding the Cultural Resources Challenge; discussed implementation of historic leasing in the parks as one of the strategies to reduce maintenance backlogs. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - funding for Bureau of Land Management cultural resources and the National Landscape Conservation System. Funding for the National Park Service cultural resources account, operations of the National Park Service. Treasury-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Ongoing meetings to discuss IRS guidance and safe harbor provisions for historic tax credit deals and structured partnership investments. VA Worked with VA to find an acquisition process and create a veterans-only HOPE Crew for restoration of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. Ongoing discussion with VA officials and veterans groups/stakeholders to implement National Trust recommendations regarding the Battle Mountain Sanitarium VA facility in South Dakota open.

H.R.298 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the Mill Springs Battlefield located in Pulaski and Wayne Counties, Kentucky, and the feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. H.R.445 National Heritage Area Act of 2013H.R.664 Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act H.R.706 Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act H.R.716 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to the city of Vancouver, Washington, and for other purposes H.R.885 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2013 H.R.1033 American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 H.R.1208 Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act H.R.1459 Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act H.R.1513 To revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station and certain land along Plum Run in Cumberland Township, to limit the means by which property within such revised boundaries may be acquired, and for other purposes H.R.1846 Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act H.R.1934 Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013 H.R.2015 Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 H.R.2192 National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act H.R.2497 Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2013 H.R.3917 Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014 H.R.3929 Pullman National Historical Park Act H.R.4049 Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act S.247 Harriet Tubman National Historical Parks Act S.285 Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act S.305 Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond Battlefields Addition Act S.311 Lower Mississippi River Area Study Act S.354 Oregon Caves Revitalization Act of 2013 S.371 Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act S.507 Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act S.782 Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act S.916 American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 S.974 Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 S.1962 Pullman National Historical Park Act No Legislation Yet American West Monument Interstate 11

Legislative Contacts: Ways and Means (Camp) Draft Discussion Tax Reform bill (HR 1); Creating American Prosperity through Preservation Act of 2011 (S. 1141) - TAX; Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act (HR 908/S. 404)- NAT; Manhattan Sites Project National Historical Park Act (S. 507/HR 1208) - SCI/NAT; Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act HR 1459 (and any amendments that propose weakening the Antiquities Act of 1906); - NAT; Water ResourcesDevelopment Act (HR 3080/S. 601) - BUD; Patterson Great Falls National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act (S. 1189) NAT; Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act of 2013 (HR 2430) - NAT; Civil Rights Heritage Trail Act (HR 2416)- NAT; American Battlefield Protection Amendments Act of 2013 (HR 1033) NAT; A bill to extend the exemption from the fire-retardant materials construction requirement for vessels operating within the Boundary Line (HR 1961/S. 1022) MAR; Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act (HR 1348) NAT; Lower East Tenement National Historic Site Amendments (HR 1846/S. 925) NAT; Pullman National Historic Site Study Act (HR 3929/S. 1962) NAT; MAP-21 Reauthorization Bill (DRAFT) TRA; Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4005) MAR. Federal Agency Contacts and Issues: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) - Section 106/4(f), cultural resource reviews in transportation projects; Review of Yosemite National Park management plan and preservation of the parks collection of historic bridges that span the Merced River; provided the National Trusts report on management of cultural resources in the Veterans Administration portfolio and requested their assistance in getting the VA to consider implementing the reports recommendations. Army Corp of Engineers (ACOE) ACOE National Historic Preservationist and ACOE Project Manager re: town of Zoar (OH) relocation and flood reduction measures; Willamette River Locks Closure and De-accession (OR), and the San Juan Waterworks (PR) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS); cultural resources funding and management; sacred sites; oil and gas development affecting the Greater Chacoan Landscape and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Appropriate use of Executive Branch authority to use the Antiquities Act for national monument proclamations; federal funding for historic preservation, cultural and historic resources on public lands. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Preservation of Green Mountain Lookout and wilderness designation issues; met with USFS officials regarding oil and gas leasing in the Little Missouri National Grasslands; public comments on forthcoming Chimney Rock National Monument management plan; the use of the leasing authority of Section 111 of the National Historic Preservation Act ; management issues surrounding Theodore Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch. Department of the Interior (DOI) - Historic Preservation Fund allocation and funding levels; administration of federal rehabilitation tax credit; Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act; Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Department of Transportation (DOT) & Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - Environmental streamlining and surface transportation; Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA); Section 4(f) review; surface transportation planning funding. National Park Service (NPS) further discussion of management plan issues surrounding Ft. Monroe National Monument; cultural and historic resource funding; protection of culturally-diverse historic sites; Yosemite National Park - Merced River Plan consultation; oil and gas leasing around Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Elkhorn Ranch; status of NPS funds for the completion of the restoration of cabins on the White Grass Dude Ranch; meeting about oil and gas leasing near Chaco Culture National Historical Park; meetings with Chief of National Park Maintenance and Associate Director of Cultural Resource Programs to review and discuss potential historic preservation projects that could be performed by youth corps as part of a new program called HOPE Crews (Hands on Preservation Experience); met with Cultural Resources Program staff regarding the Cultural Resources Challenge; discussed implementation of historic leasing in the parks as one of the strategies to reduce maintenance backlogs. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - funding for Bureau of Land Management cultural resources and the National Landscape Conservation System. Funding for the National Park Service cultural resources account, operations of the National Park Service.Treasury-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Ongoing meetings to discuss IRS guidance and safe harbor provisions for historic tax credit deals and structured partnership investments. VA Distributed National Trusts report on stewardship and management of historic properties under the stewardship of the agency to the Secretary asking that he consider implementing the reports recommendations to improve their cultural resources management practices.

H.R.1033 American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 H.R.716 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to the city of Vancouver, Washington, and for other purposes.H.R.1846 Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act H.R.2634 To modify the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and for other purposes. H.R.1934 Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion and Study Act of 2013 H.R.3294 State-Run Federal Lands Act H.R.2015 Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 H.R.3451 Veterans Conservation Corps Act of 2013 H.R.1208 Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act HR 445 National Heritage Areas Act of 2013 H.R.298 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the Mill Springs Battlefield located in Pulaski and Wayne Counties, Kentucky, and the feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. S.916 American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2013 S.782 Gettysburg National Military Park Expansion Act S.507 Manhattan Project National Historical Park Act S.1718 A bill to modify the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and for other purposes. S.974 Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013 S.1262 Veterans Conservation Corps Act of 2013 S.1232 Great Lakes Ecological and Economic Protection Act of 2013 CBC Cultural Resources- Not yet filed American West Monument Act- Not yet filed Pullman National Historical Park- Not yet file

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