Department of Defense (DoD) agencies are required by law to maintain inventories of cultural resources on federal properties that may be affected by construction and development initiatives. These agencies come under the purview of Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended, and its implementing regulations. Section 106 of the NHPA requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties.
 

Section 110 of the NHPA requires that federal agencies fully integrate historic preservation into ongoing programs by establishing preservation programs for the identification, evaluation, nomination to the National Register, and protection of historic properties. PAL has completed more than 170 DoD projects for the Army Corps of Engineers, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, and Coast Guard. Our current DoD multi-year on-call services contracts are for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District and the U.S. Coast Guard, CEU Providence.
 

PAL’s cultural resource management services assist these various DoD agencies in satisfying their obligations to meet federal, state, and local cultural resource requirements on military installations such as active army and air force bases and reserve training facilities throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic regions. We have a thorough understanding of the regulatory guidelines that mandate such studies, resulting from the successful completion of more than one hundred historic and archaeological surveys and site investigations over the past decade. Technical services provided by PAL for these projects include locating, identifying, and evaluating historic structures and archaeological sites in the study areas and developing cultural resource management plans for the treatment of these resources. Treatment plans developed and implemented by PAL include avoidance and preservation/protection protocols, archaeological data recovery programs, and HABS/HAER documentation.