Take action to reauthorize the Historic Preservation Fund!

The Historic Preservation Fund's (HPF) current authorization expired on September 30th. We need your help. Reach out to your members of Congress and urge them to support efforts to reauthorize the HPF!

The Historic Preservation Fund is the principal federal funding source to implement the the nation's historic preservation programs. For more than 45 years, the HPF has empowered states and local entities to preserve the buildings and sites that tell their community's stories. The HPF supports State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (S/THOPs) in carrying out their federally mandated duties to protect historic resources and evaluate the impact of federal projects on them. The HPF also supports a number of critically important competitive grant programs that helping to revitalize communities and preserve places that tell a more diverse and inclusive American story.

The bipartisan Historic Preservation Fund Reauthorization Act (H.R. 3350) would reauthorize the HPF for 10 years and increase the program's current authorization from $150 million to $250 million. The recent FY24 Senate Interior Appropriations bill included a one year authorization for the HPF. While a longer authorization is needed, including a short-term authorization as part of a Continuing Resolution or other legislative vehicle would provide a temporary fix and avoid a long lapse in deposits to the HPF.

Reauthorization is imperative to the ongoing success of the HPF program.

If the HPF remaining unauthorized, undermines the importance of this funding and revitalization projects across the country. Reauthorization would provide much needed certainty to the states, tribes, and local communities that rely on this federal funding to carry out their critical preservation work.