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26 National Register Fact Sheet 4, Page 2 . Between 1976 and 1993, 803 National Register properties in North Carolina were rehabilitated under federal historic preservation tax incentive programs, representing an investment of over 5286,000,000 in National Register properties in the state. . The Restoration Branch of the State Historic Preservation Office offers technical restoration consultation services to owners of historic properties, including municipal and county governments, churches, businesses, and private property owners. Restoration Branch staff provides consultation services to more than 1,500 historic properties in a typical year. Restoration staff is located in Raleigh (919/733-6547), Asheville (704/274-6789), and Greenville (919/830-6580). . Since the mid-1970s three-fifths of North Carolina's 100 counties and scores of municipalities have participated in survey and planning grant projects co-sponsored with the State Historic Preservation Office to conduct comprehensive surveys of histonc properties and prepaze nominations of properties and districts to the National Register of Historic Places. Many other counties have partiapated in regional reconnaissance surveys. The .Survey and Planning Branch maintains an estimated 65,000 survey files with photographs and information about historic structures. The Office of State Archaeology maintains information concerning the approximately 25,000 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites recorded in the state. Thirty-seven counties and twent~+- five municipalities have published historic architecture survey catalogues, many of which are still in print and available for purchase from the State Historic Preservation Office. For information about why the National Register was created sad what listing mesas to a property owner, see NATIONAL REGISTER FACT SHEET 1, "WHAT IS THB NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES?" For an explanation of National Register criteria for evaluation, see NATIONAL REGISTER FACT SHEET Z, "NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION.' For information about how properties and districts are listed is the National Register, see NATIONAL REGISTER FACT SHEET 3, 'HOW HISTORIC PROPERTIES ARE LISTED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES." See the handout titled 'A COMPARISON OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES WITH LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK AND DISTRICT DESIGNATIONS" for an explanation of the differences between the two programs. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Historic structures sad the National Register. Survey and Planning Branch, 919!733-6545. Archaeological sites sad the National Register: Office of State Archaeology, 919/733-7342. Preservation tax credits and technical restoration assistance: Restoration Branch, 919/733-6547. Greats to local governments and organisations for historic property surveys and National Register nominations: Grants Coordinator, Administration Branch, 919/733-4763. Lists of available architectural survey publications: Administrative Assistant, Administration Branch, 919/733-4763. Address correspondence to the appropriate breach named above at the State Historic Preservation Office, N.C. Division of Archives sad History, 109 E. Jones Street, Raleigh, N.C. 27601 2807. The National Register program is governed by the following federal sad state roles sad regulations: 36CFR Part 60 (interim rule), 36CFR Pact 61 (final rote), and North Carolina Administrative Coda T07: 04R .0300. 7/15/94