United States HR 2448: To direct the Secretary of Interior to submit to Congress a report on the National Park Service's interpretation and application of the Standards for Rehabilitation for use of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program.

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119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2448
To direct the Secretary of Interior to submit to Congress a report on the
National Park Service’s interpretation and application of the Standards
for Rehabilitation for use of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incen-
tives program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 27, 2025
Mr. MAGAZINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Interior to submit to Congress
a report on the National Park Service’s interpretation
and application of the Standards for Rehabilitation for
use of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives
program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. REPORT. 3
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 4
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub-5
mit a report on the Service’s interpretation and applica-6
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tion of the Secretary’s Standards for Rehabilitation per-1
taining to use of the Program to— 2
(1) the Committee on Natural Resources of the 3
House of Representatives; and 4
(2) the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-5
sources of the Senate. 6
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required under sub-7
section (a) shall include the following: 8
(1) Data on the processing of Program Applica-9
tions during the 10 years immediately before the 10
date of the enactment of this Act, including— 11
(A) the average time a Program Applica-12
tion is in the system, from the date it is sub-13
mitted to the State Historic Preservation Office 14
by the applicant until it is approved or denied 15
by the Service, presented by project size, type, 16
and parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Program Applica-17
tion; and 18
(B) the annual average number of— 19
(i) hold notices annually; 20
(ii) conditions placed on the approval 21
under part 2 of the Program Application; 22
(iii) denied applications; 23
(iv) projects approved under part 2 of 24
the Program Application; and 25
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(v) Program Applications withdrawn. 1
(2) A description of the following: 2
(A) Areas of improvement to and rec-3
ommendations for the Standards to remove bar-4
riers to the development of affordable housing 5
while safeguarding Federal historic preserva-6
tion. 7
(B) Opportunities for the Secretary to up-8
date or provide additional guidance to facili-9
tate— 10
(i) the conversion of nonresidential 11
buildings into housing; 12
(ii) the remediation of environmental, 13
health, and safety hazards; 14
(iii) inclusion of energy efficient up-15
grades and integration of sustainability 16
features; 17
(iv) access for persons with disabil-18
ities; and 19
(v) removal of other barriers to use 20
raised by users and beneficiaries of the 21
Program. 22
(C) The specific steps the Service has 23
taken in the 10 years immediately before the 24
date of the enactment of this Act to improve or 25
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clarify the interpretation of the Standards to 1
support affordable housing development. 2
(D) The most frequent issues that Pro-3
gram users, State reviewers, and other stake-4
holders raise when developing affordable hous-5
ing projects and the steps the Service has taken 6
to address those issues, including details of the 7
process of the Service for soliciting, collecting, 8
and incorporating feedback on the Service inter-9
pretation of the Standards. 10
(E) The process that the Service uses to 11
decide when to update guidance, including 12
guidelines, preservation briefs, bulletins regard-13
ing interpretation of the Standards, and tax-in-14
centive guidance, for implementing the Stand-15
ards and whether resource limitations are af-16
fecting the ability of the Service to update such 17
guidance. 18
(3) Recommendations of the Secretary regard-19
ing updates and improvements that can be made to 20
the Standards and the implementation by the Serv-21
ice of the Standards and accompanying guidelines 22
to— 23
(A) make the Program more compatible 24
with affordable housing needs; 25
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(B) ensure historic properties are protected 1
from climate risk; and 2
(C) take into consideration economic and 3
technical feasibility. 4
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
(1) PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘Program’’ means 6
the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives 7
program. 8
(2) PROGRAM APPLICATION.—The term ‘‘Pro-9
gram Appl