CULTURAL RESOURCES

JBR Environmental Consultants, Inc. provides cultural resource services through its professional staff in the Pacific Northwest and through teaming partners throughout the JBR footprint. Our expertise includes all aspects of cultural resource management, from feasibility assessments and historical property inventories to complex archaeological excavations.

JBR staff has provided cultural resource services on transportation, infrastructure, energy, development, resource inventory, due diligence, and habitat restoration projects for public and private clients. Our staff has also coordinated with many federal, state, and municipal agencies, including State Historic Preservation Offices, Departments of Transportation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Meet JBR's Cultural Resources Team

Cultural Resource and Archaeology Services:

Regulatory Compliance

• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
• Section 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
• Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 1966
• Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Assessment Chapter Preparation
• Executive Order 05-05
• Memorandum of Agreements (MOA)/Programmatic Agreements (PA) development
• Environmental Classification Summaries
• Due Diligence
• Mitigation Recommendations
• Local regulation Compliance
• Gap Analyses

Archaeological Resources

• Recording Prehistoric, Ethnohistoric, and Historic sites
• National Register of Historic Places Evaluations
• Pedestrian Surveys
• Subsurface Sampling
• Testing and Data Recovery Excavations
• Feasibility Studies
• Construction Monitoring
• Artifact Analyses and Illustrations

Historic Buildings and Structures

• Architectural Descriptions
• Historical Property Inventories
• Chain-of-Title Searches
• Background and Archival Research
• National, State, and Local Register Evaluations
• Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) recording

Traditional Cultural Properties

• Native American Tribal Consultation Assistance
• Ethnographic Research
• Oral History Interviews

Historical Research

• Federal, State, and Local Archival Research
• Literature Reviews
• Historic Land Use Research

Agency Experience

JBR staff has extensive experience working with federal, state, and local agencies, as well as with Tribal governments and representatives including:

• State Historic Preservation Offices
• City and county governments
• Federal Highway Administration and State Departments of Transportation
• US Army Corps of Engineers
• US Forest Service
• US Environmental Protection Agency and State Department of Health
• US Department of Agriculture Rural Development
• US Department of Veterans Affairs
• US Department of Defense
• Bureau of Land Management
• National Park Service
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Federal Communications Commission
• US Department of Justice
• Tribal Councils, Historic Preservation Officers, and cultural representatives
• Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council
• Department of Ecology

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