Common use of Historic Context Clause in Contracts

Historic Context. Conduct background research to identify meaningful historic contexts or verify the lack of meaningful historic associations (i.e., those that may render the properties eligible to the NRHP). If historic associations are identified, the refuse deposits do not qualify for this protocol. As part of background research, review available: atlases (e.g., cut-over atlases, timber sale atlases, etc.); planting records, range condition inventories, and other records; historic maps; historic photographs; ethnographies, oral histories; and standard historical references. Incorporate brief narratives of results of background research into site records. 2.1 Isolated historic refuse deposits lack integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and, most importantly, association. Isolated historic refuse deposits are disassociated from their sources and thus from their historic contexts. They are ineligible for the NRHP. 2.2 The waste in isolated historic refuse deposits has been removed from its source and may be mixed with other deposits. Isolated historic refuse deposits are not associated with adjacent or nearby eligible properties for which historic contexts are or can be established. They represent variable and idiosyncratic behavior by unknown persons or groups. Without historic contexts, isolated trash dumps do not contribute to property significance. (a) Isolated historic refuse deposits may be associated with roads (see 2.2(b), below). This protocol does not apply if these deposits are associated with other types of historic properties. (b) The exception for integrity of association is that for roads, and particularly road use. Many refuse deposits are found at the ends of or adjacent to roads. In most cases, the only association is that for road use; the roads were used to access generally remote areas in order to dump trash well removed from the sources of the trash. The roads themselves may have been originally built long before their use to dump trash, or reengineered many times since original construction and subsequent use for dumping trash, or only be incidental to the use for dumping trash. HPM/DHPS need to apply professional judgment to determine if shared relationships exist between trash dumps and historic roads that together may otherwise make refuse deposits eligible to the NRHP.