Urge Your Representative to Sign-on to the FY22 Historic Preservation Fund Dear Colleague Letter Today!

Congress is starting the appropriations process which will determine Fiscal Year 2022 funding levels for historic preservation. The co-chairs of the Historic Preservation Caucus, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH), are leading the bipartisan FY22 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) Dear Colleague Letter in the House. The letter request $150 million in funding for the HPF, the same level Preservation Action advocated for during Advocacy Week and represents full funding for the HPF. The request includes significant increases for State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, and increases to critically important competitive grant programs. The letter requests:

• $60 million for State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs)
• $24 million for Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs)
• $20 million for the Save America’s Treasures grant program
• $10 million for competitive grants for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• $9 million for the Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization grants
• $1 million for a competitive grant program to survey and document historic resources
• $19 million for African American Civil Rights Initiative Competitive Grants
• $7 million for the newly established competitive grants programs to preserve the sites and stories associated with securing civil rights for All Americans.

The letter also supports funding the semiquincentennial grant program to preserve historical sites commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America.