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Cultural Resources & Section 106 NHPA Compliance

Cardno ENTRIX employs a team of cultural resources management experts who specialize in archaeology, architectural history and the historic preservation of architecture.  When a project involves architectural/historical or archaeological resources, unique challenges to obtaining, federal, state and local permits typically arise.  Our technical experience and in-depth knowledge of today’s complex regulatory requirements facilitates environmental permitting processes, particularly compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Act of 1966, the myriad of National and State Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA/SEPA/CEQA), as well as local preservation ordinances. 

Our specialized archaeological services include survey, testing, data recovery, ethnographic studies and construction monitoring, as well as the development of treatment and curatorial plans.  Our architectural historians routinely conduct inventories and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility evaluations, author historic context statements, develop historic structures reports, and prepare tax rehabilitation tax credit applications. In addition, Cardno ENTRIX has experience with tribal consultation, writing management plans and memorandum of agreements (MOAs)/programmatic agreements (PAs), as well as providing expert witness testimony.  Our Cultural Resources group is capable of managing large-scale, multi-state projects (e.g. environmental impact statements) as well as site-specific historic building or archaeological assessments.  Additionally, Cardno ENTRIX professionals have served as on-call historic preservation consultants for various local jurisdictions.

Related Services: Example Projects:
  • Section 106 Archaeological and Historic Building Surveys, Assessments, and Reports
  • Archaeological Site Testing and Data Recovery/Site Mitigation
  • Section 106 Federal/State/Local agency and State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Consultation Assistance
  • NEPA/CEQA/SEPA Cultural Resource Reports, Coordination, Process Management, Agency Consultation, & Public Meeting Facilitation
  • Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) Reports and Tribal Consultation
  • Historic Properties Management Plans
  • Expert Witness Testimony
  • Development of Agreement Documents (PAs, MOAs) and Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs)
  • HABS/HAER Documentation
  • Ethnographic Services (Ethnohistory/Ethnobotony)