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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Oklahoma Main Street</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We are pleased to share the following notice from the National Park Service/Technical Preservation Services. These guidelines are used in the application of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards. We hope
you find the updated guidance helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Melvena Heisch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Deputy SHPO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">State Historic Preservation Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Oklahoma Historical society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Oklahoma city, OK 73105-7917<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">405/522-4484<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:mheisch@okhistory.org">mheisch@okhistory.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">From NPS/TPS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The updated version of <i>The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring and Reconstructing Historic Buildings</i> has been released and is now
available in <a href="https://www.nps.gov/tps/standards/treatment-guidelines-2017.pdf">
PDF format</a> from the <span style="color:#1F497D">Technical Preservation Services (TPS)</span> website.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Guidelines have been updated to ensure that they continue to reflect best practices in historic preservation, apply to 20th-century building types, materials, and systems now considered historic, and incorporate modern methods and technologies.
The Standards themselves have not been changed. <a href="https://www.nps.gov/tps/standards/treatment-guidelines-2017.htm">
Additional information</a> about the updated guidelines describing the changes that have been made from the prior version of the publication is also available from the TPS website.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">T</span>he publication is available to the general public in PDF format and for purchase from the Government Printing Office.<o:p></o:p></p>
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