Palau Register of Historic Places and Bureau of Arts and Culture Research Library Report

Overview: "Established in 1974 by the Historic Preservation Act of the Congress of Micronesia Public, creating the Palau District Historical Preservation Office, the Palau Register of Historic Places became an integral part of historic preservation in Palau. It is the official inventory of the nation's cultural and historical resources....The Palau Register is responsible for the identification and documentation of those resources and focuses on the most important sites to ensure their protection. The Palau Register of Historic Places comprised of places of national significance as well as places of state and local importance. In the Palau Register Manual, it says that the Palau Register of Historic Places is intended to serve as the official inventory list of those historical sites, tangible and intangible cultural properties which are deemed of significance to the Palauan people, hence worth preserving. It includes properties of national and state significance as well as those of local importance. It is an authoritative guide whereby government officials, private groups, and ordinary citizens can indicate which properties throughout the nation should be protected from destruction or impairment. The Palau Register is the legal instrument to ensure that registered property 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." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Palau Historic Preservation Office, Bureau of Arts and Culture, Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs, administered by the Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Palau Register of Historic Places and Bureau of Arts and Culture Research Library Report

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