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The public comment period is open. The public has just 30 days to let their voices be heard. Federal agencies need to hear from people across Colorado telling them what is at stake and why these places matter. CPI has created a tool to help you build your own public comment to download and email to the federal government.
It’s important.
Your voice helps ensure that historic places, cultural resources, and communities remain part of the consultation process.
It’s easy.
Use our step-by-step guide to build your comment with your own words. Using your own words ensures that your comment will be counted.
It makes a difference.
Public input helps agencies understand the real impacts of these proposed changes in Colorado. They must address meaningful comments.
Share your perspective
Help us get started. Select the option that best describes you.
Examples: I live in a historic town. I care about… I recreate at… I work in…
Choose key topics
Select the topics you want to include in your comment. Each one you choose adds a question to answer in your own words.
Background: Today, a place does not need to contain a building to qualify. Under the proposal, a place would need to be “geographically compact” with tangible human improvements. Mountains, valleys, bodies of water, landscapes, and ethnographic landscapes would not qualify.
Background: Today, a cell tower along the Santa Fe Trail or a transmission line beside a historic district must be considered even if it never touches a historic building. The proposal narrows review toward direct physical alterations.
Background: Today, State and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, local governments, and other consulting parties help identify places and work toward solutions. The proposal gives agencies more control over who participates and when.
Background: Tribes may hold knowledge about sacred places, ancestral lands, and burial sites that is not in government records. Under the proposal, key decisions could be made before that knowledge enters the review.
Background: Section 106 consultation helped save McGraw Ranch in Rocky Mountain National Park. Under the proposal, an agency could identify harm to a historic place without working with anyone to resolve it.
Not sure what to say? Select a topic to see background information and a question to get you started. The strongest comment is your own.
Make it local
Is there a Colorado place that helps explain your concern? A historic place, landscape, archaeological site, neighborhood, ranch, Main Street, or cultural place you know.
What do you want them to do?
Consider whether you want the final rule to preserve meaningful consultation, maintain consideration of a broad range of historic places, continue considering effects to setting and context, or retain a process for resolving adverse effects.
Review & personalize your comment
Use the draft below and make it your own. You can edit any part of the text. Personalization is required for your comment to be counted individually.
Send to: [Official comment email — coming soon]
Suggested subject line: Public Comment on Proposed Revisions to 36 CFR Part 800
Remember: public comments may become part of the public record. Do not include personal information you do not want made public.