Star Barn Welcome to the Transportation Public Involvement Clearinghouse

Welcome to Pennsylvania's clearinghouse for transportation projects.  If you are receiving this e-mail, you expressed an interest in knowing about transportation projects in your county/district that have the potential to impact cultural resources. 
 
    Unfortunately, we have encountered a slight delay in the program launch. PennDOT  coordinated the newest release of the CE/EA Expert System with the implementation of the New Statewide Section 106 Programmatic Agreement (PA). In order to utilize the tools necessary to post Appendix C Exemptions, PennDOT temporarily delayed the start of the online notification until the CE/EA Expert System Release 33 launch. PennDOT expects to begin notification service in early May. 
 
    In the meantime, we hope that you will visit Preservation PA's website at www.preservationpa.org to read the full PA and view instructions for accessing the FTP server where Section 106 documents will be stored.  We also encourage you to attend the Statewide Conference on Heritage workshop on transportation. Please read the announcement below for more information.
 
    We hope to have more information for you soon, and will begin sending out e-mails about projects as soon as the new system is in place. Thank you again for your interest in this program. 

A New Approach to Transportation and Preservation: A Workshop for the Public

Tuesday, May 18 ~ 8:30am-12:00pm


    This workshop, targeting potential consulting parties and the interested public, will serve as an introduction to the new interagency delegation agreement for Section 106 activities among the Federal Highway Administration, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the PHMC, and PennDOT.


    The workshop will introduce attendees to the new provisions in the agreement, and to the specific implementation of those provisions through the new cultural resources handbook, administrative procedures, and public involvement clearinghouse. 


    The new agreement constitutes some of the most sweeping changes in cultural resource management and transportation in Pennsylvania's history, and includes unprecedented opportunities for public access to information and public involvement. This workshop is especially important for organizations and individuals who have been or may become consulting parties on section 106 agreements with PennDOT and the Federal Highway Administration, or Army Corps of Engineers permitted transportation projects.

 

Please visit the conference website to view the full conference schedule.  To register and learn more about the 2010 Statewide Conference on Heritage, please visit: www.pennbyways.org.