In a message dated 1/9/98 1:21:50 AM EST, [log in to unmask] writes: > All federally permitted or funded projects which > have effects on historic structures would follow the Secretary of Interior's > Standards and Guidelines in negotiating the treatment of specific > properties affected by the undertaking. Although one would hope that the Standards and NHPA would protect historic properties affected by federal undertakings, all too often the result is "D&D preservation" -- document and destroy. Memorandums of agreement, in my experience, are notoriously uncreative when it comes to mitigation and sensitive treatment of historic resources. Mary Krugman