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eLearning Tool for FEMA Grant Applicants

Section A: Historic Buildings and Structures

A-1: Determining if your project will affect or is in close proximity to buildings or structures greater than 50 years old
A-2: How to Gather Other Important Information
A-3: How to Address Adverse Effects
A-4: How to provide relevant and helpful support Documentation

How to Address Adverse Effects

Adverse effects impact the integrity or intactness of a historic structure or its surroundings. If you anticipate that your project will have an adverse effect to an historic structure, then you should consider ways to avoid those effects, minimize the effects, and if necessary, compensate for the effects. When possible, all projects should be designed to avoid adverse effects to historic structures. If adverse effects cannot be avoided, develop appropriate treatment measures into the scope of work so adverse effects are reduced and minimized. Lastly, if adverse effects cannot be avoided, compensate for the adverse effects through documentation or development of other treatment measures in consultation with FEMA, the SHPO or THPO, and other interested parties. Listed below are some of the possible adverse effects that your project may have, together with possible treatment measures that you may include in your project to avoid, reduce or minimize, or compensate for adverse effects. The list is illustrative, and does not include all adverse effects that a project may have or all of the ways to potentially treat those effects.

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Last Modified: Wednesday, 11-Aug-2010 14:17:29 EDT