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FY 2015 Certified Local Government Manual 2. REUSE STUDIES Historic properties that are vacant over an extended period of time are especially vulnerable to demolition or serious deterioration. The MN SHPO has developed a process called the Minnesota Historic Properties Reuse Team(HPRT)through which it works with communities and local citizens to conduct studies of vacant, threatened,and under-used historic properties in order to identify a range of potential new uses. The HPRT process is outlined in the publication,A Primer for Historic Properties Reuse Teams in Minnesota which can be found online: http://www.mnhs.org/shpo/planning/primer.pdf The following information should be included in the application narratives: 1. Physical description of the property including construction date, type of structure,original and present function,and type of construction. 2. Discussion of current ownership. 3. Discussion of how the building is threatened. 4. Discussion of the city's and/or HPC's role in the reuse study. 5. Discussion of how the city will follow the established HPRT process. 6. Anticipated reuse study schedule. 7. References to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties sufficient to demonstrate that the project will conform to these standards. 8. Description of the how the report will be promoted, distributed, or made available to the public. 9. Discussion of how the report will be used and how the recommendations will be implemented. 10. Discussion of how the project relates to the state's comprehensive planning process and the statewide preservation plan released in the winter of 2011.The plan is available at: http://www.mnhs.org/shpo/planning/docs pdfs/preservationplan 2012-2017.pdf. Simply citing the part of the plan to which the project relates is not sufficient. C.SURVEY Most Minnesota cities were included in the SHPO reconnaissance level county-by-county survey conducted between 1977 and 1988. Many, however, merit more intensive survey to compile comprehensive information for use in local planning and for identifying and evaluating additional properties for registration. Before beginning a long-range survey program, it is recommended that cities establish a series of historic contexts(see A above)as a framework for planning survey activities.Guidance for survey is found in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Identification(pages 44720 to 44723) in the Federal Register of 9-29-83, in SHPO Manual for Archaeological Projects in Minnesota of July 2005, and in MN SHPO's Guidelines for Architecture/History Projects of October 2010. The Manual and Guidelines can be found online: http://www.mnhs.org/shpo/survey/archsurvey.pdf and http://www.mnhs.org/shpo/survey/docs pdfs/HistoryArchitectureSurveyManualOctober2010.pdf,and the Standards at: http://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/arch stnds 0.htm The following information should be included in 10 in the application narratives: 1. Type of survey(architecture/history,archaeology,or both). 2. Level of documentation(intensive or reconnaissance). 3. Number of acres in survey area (include a map). 4. Statement explaining how the survey relates to previous and future survey work in the city. 5. Statement explaining how the survey relates to the statewide historic contexts developed by the SHPO,and local contexts, if applicable. 6. Anticipated survey work schedule. 7. References to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Identification sufficient to demonstrate that the project will conform to these standards. 4