PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program is asking for help in ensuring the project reduces its impact on historic sites in the Portland and Vancouver areas.
Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires agencies to assess whether federally-funded projects could harm cultural resources and, if so, determine how to minimize that harm. As a result, the team behind ongoing efforts to replace the Interstate 5 Bridge is seeking public comment on its Draft Programmatic Agreement.
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The proposed agreement reveals how leaders would address the program’s potential “adverse effects” to historic places, such as physical damage, removal from their original location or alterations to the features that make the sites historic.
IBRP has identified more than 10 places that could face adverse effects of construction…