End of Year Report - Palau National Register of Historic Places and Research Library

Ngirmang, Sunny

From the Overview: "Established in 1974 by the Historic Preservation Act, Palau Register of Historic Places became an integral part of historic preservation in Palau. It is the official inventory of the nation's registered cultural and historic resource. Its expansion and maintenance was authorized by the Historic Preservation Act of 1978... The Palau Register is the legal instrument to ensure that registered properties or properties that may be eligible, threatened by public or private development will be subject to comment and review in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law. The primary goal of the Palau Register is to preserve significant historic and cultural properties...More specifically, the Palau Register seeks to: 1) assess and record the history and achievements of the Palauan people as reflected in historic districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects; 2) aid Palauan municipalities in the preparation of comprehensive preservation; 3) assist in the preservation of the tangible reminders of history; 4) to extend to all such properties a degree of protection by insuring compliance with procedures whenever and wherever the law applies; and 5) nominate eligible tangible cultural properties for inclusion on the Palau Register...." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Palau Historic Preservation Office, Bureau of Cultural and Historical Preservation, Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs, administered by the Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number 70-12-41964).

End of Year Report - Palau National Register of Historic Places and Research Library

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