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Opportunity Summary:

The BLM OR-WA Cultural Resources Data Management in Oregon opportunity is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement designed to strengthen how Oregon manages, standardizes, and shares information about historic properties and other cultural resources. The grant is rooted in the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), which set up State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs) and made them responsible for maintaining statewide inventories of historic properties, supporting National Register nominations, implementing statewide preservation planning, administering preservation-related federal assistance, advising agencies and local governments on compliance responsibilities, and providing public information and technical support. In practical terms, Oregon SHPO is expected to serve as the central hub for collecting and distributing cultural resources data generated across federal, state, local, and private-sector activities that may affect historic properties.

The problem this funding targets is the sheer volume and complexity of cultural resources information produced in Oregon. Cultural resources specialists generate large datasets while conducting surveys, inventories, evaluations, and project compliance reviews. Much of that information can exist in mixed formats, including modern digital records, older legacy databases, and paper files. Because SHPO must both safeguard this information and make it usable for professionals and, in appropriate ways, for the public, the opportunity emphasizes the need for more efficient and modern data management approaches that can keep pace with ongoing fieldwork and compliance demands.

The core objective is to develop and/or implement efficient, cost-effective best-practice methodologies for managing cultural resources data statewide. The BLM is specifically interested in innovative strategies that reflect current technology and modern methods, including digital data management systems. The opportunity supports work that streamlines and improves the full lifecycle of cultural resources data: creating consistent formats and workflows, standardizing records, validating data quality, and enabling secure digital sharing at a regional scale. Rather than focusing only on building a tool, the grant also anticipates the need for the surrounding infrastructure that makes data systems actually function over time, such as policies, procedures, and practical processes that guide data entry, access, updates, and long-term stewardship.

Key activities described in the notice include facilitating data entry for both newly created records and older legacy information, validating new and legacy datasets to improve accuracy and reliability, transferring paper files into digital formats, and building comprehensive records that can be trusted for planning, compliance, and research. Another major theme is improving data-sharing pathways between federal agencies, state offices, and private cultural resources practitioners, with a strong emphasis on digital sharing that reduces duplication of effort and speeds up responsible decision-making while still protecting sensitive site information as required.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, offered under CFDA 15.224 and structured as a cooperative agreement (which generally implies substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal agency during the project). Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the opportunity is broadly open to applicants, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications in the full announcement. The opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L16AS00224) was posted June 27, 2016, with an original closing date of August 16, 2016. The award ceiling is $20,000, with one expected award, indicating a small, targeted project intended to produce practical improvements or implementable steps toward a more standardized and digitally capable statewide cultural resources data management approach.

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