Cultural Resources Management

Our cultural resources team has over half a century of collective experience in surveying, assessment, and research. Our surveys and investigations have addressed land development, infrastructure replacement and expansion, and interpretation and preservation programs covering multiple jurisdictions and institutions.

Our current work commonly entails archival and physical investigations of land units for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating project impacts. Cultural resource sites investigated by our team range in age from 13,500 years to the 20th century. We pride ourselves in keeping fully abreast of responsible agency regulations and policies, further assuring that the most expeditious and economical means of compliance is achieved.

The ENPLAN cultural resources team includes principal investigators, archaeologists, archaeological technicians, architectural historians, historians, and archivists. To undertake intensive excavations or projects covering large geographic areas, we maintain relationships with independent cultural resource management specialists throughout northern California to ensure that all projects are completed in a timely and cost-effective manner.

  • Archaeological Surveys and Cultural Resource Inventories
  • NHPA Section 106 Compliance
  • Archaeological Resource Management Reports (ARMR)
  • CEQA/NEPA Compliance
  • Archival Research
  • Archaeological Data Recovery
  • National, California and/or Local Register Resource Evaluations
  • National, California and/or Local Register Nominations
  • Historical Architecture Investigations
  • Construction Monitoring
  • Mitigation Programs
  • Preservation Planning
  • Native American Coordination and Public Participation
  • National, California and/or Local Register Nominations
  • Traditional Cultural Property Evaluations
  • Archaeological Site Mapping
  • Historic Masonry Rehabilitation Consultation

 

Federal and California laws and regulations

Our cultural resources team stays abreast of and performs tasks in compliance with all regulations addressing cultural concerns, including the following:

  • The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, 36 CFR, Part 68
  • National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Protection of Historic Properties, Part 800 of Section 106 and Section 110 of the NHPA
  • The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
  • The Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA)
  • American Indian Religous Freedom Act
  • Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment, Executive Order 11593
  • Locating Federal Facilities on Historic Properties in Our Nation’s Central Cities, Executive Order 13006
  • Indian Sacred Sites, Executive Order 13007
  • Consulting and Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments, Executive Order 13175
  • Preserve America, Executive Order 13287
  • Government to Government Relations with Native American Tribal Governments, Executive Momorandum dated April 29, 1994
  • The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Public Resources Code Sections 5020, 5024, 5028, 21080, 21083 and 21084
  • Native American Historic Resource Protection Act, Public Resources Code Section 5097
  • California Public Records Act, 6254
  • The California Health and Safety Code, Section 7050