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Cultural Resources
Control Number: 299
Course Number: 33CUR01A
Length:36
CEUs: 3.00     PDHs: 30.00     LUs: 0.00     PDUs: 0.00     CMs: 0.00     ACE: 0.00     CEHs: 0.00
Purpose:
This course provides students with a broad-based understanding of the character and quality of cultural resources and historic properties, a working knowledge of the identification and assessment procedures applied to those resources, and a review of tribal consultation policy and principles that impact agency cultural resources management. The course is designed for all planners, natural resources managers, project managers, and others who will participate in the stewardship and management of cultural resources as well as interact with tribes.

Description:
The course addresses cultural resources, historic properties, and overarching laws and regulations that define significance, mandate management, and prescribe treatment. Students will learn the various types of cultural resource categories and their attributes, quality and values. Students receive an overview of Corps planning, operations, and regulatory management actions that have the potential to affect cultural resources. Focus on the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Executive Order 13175, as well as other statutory requirements introduces students to regulatory responsibilities. This course gives special consideration to the procedural requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA and the interrelationships of the agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Office, and consultation with tribes with the opportunity to apply knowledge to case studies. The program also offers an overview of the nature of Corps relations with tribes including an understanding of the Trust relationship, government-to-government relations, treatment of Native American human remains and associated objects and Indian access to sacred sites. State-of-the-art field techniques, methodologies regional overviews, and data management are illustrated.

Prerequisites:
Nominees must be assigned (a) Occupational series: selected 0020, 0100, 0400, 0800 and 1300; (b) Grade: GS-07 or above (water resource planners, rangers, park managers, planners, study managers, designers - anyone potentially involved with cultural resources during the planning, design, or operation of a project). Senior leaders and decision makers at the USACE District and MSC levels are encouraged to enroll in this course offering. Nominees should have attended the Environmental Impact Assessment course and the PCC1 Civil Works Orientation course, or equivalents.

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Sessions: This information is updated nightly and may be up to 24 hours old.
SessionLocationStart DateEnd DateSeats Open
1Santa Fe, NM6/1/20266/5/20260
2Santa Fe, NM7/6/20267/10/20260
4Online, __8/3/20268/7/202614
5Online, __9/14/20269/18/202615