National Historic Preservation Act of 1966


National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

Expanded the National Register of Historic Places to make it a nationwide inventory of districts, sites, structures, and objects of state and local as well as national importance, maintained by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The act also created a review agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, made up of federal officials and private citizens to advise the president and Congress on historic preservation matters for highway or utility construction, if they are likely to have any effect on historic structures.