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North Carolina African American Network on Historic Preservation NCH ( NHT NCH iin NHP Newsletter VOLUME 1 , NUMBER 3 FEBRUARY 1999 Potential Impact of Federal Historic FY 1999 . Recognizing that level funding Preservation Funding on African for the states actually is a decrease in American Historic Preservation funding and that there is a steady increase in Initiatives historic preservation needs , this year the The National Historic Preservation Act of National Conference of State Historic 1966 authorized federal funding for the Preservation Officers (NCSHPO) and Historic Preservation Fund from offshore Preservation Action have made full funding oil- drilling revenues collected by the Federal of the HPF a priority in their FY 2000 government. Grants from the HPF are made legislative agenda . to the 57 state and territorial historic Claudia Polley , president of the National preservation offices , historically black Association for African American Heritage colleges and universities (HBCUs) , Indian Preservation, has offered to help lobby tribes , and selected projects . Each year, the Congress . In a message to the NCSHPO , North Carolina State Historic Preservation Ms . Polley stated that " reduced funding for Office (HPO) passes through part of its HPF state shpo offices dramatically affects grant as matching grants for local communities of color . As we . . . have made .preservation projects such as architectural some rather substaritive and necessary surveys and National Register nominations . alliances with the state preservation offices4 4 , Since 1976 , the HPO has provided to now be held up in our moving forward approximately $ 510 ; 000 in federal matching because of reduced funding (or rather grants for preservation projects in African relatively lessened funding) poses a very American communities . serious threat to continued participation . While annual appropriations for the HPF Staff of the North Carolina HPO has sent could be as high as $ 150 million , they have . Ms . Polley a list of African American never reached this level . In 1980 , the annual historic preservation projects in North appropriation to the states and territories Carolina that have been assisted by HPF reached a high of $ 60 million, but in 1981 it matching grants . These projects included was cut drastically to $ 19 million . Since surveys and National Register nominations then , the appropriation has risen to $ 31 . 4 in Elizabeth City , Greensboro , New Bern, million, but in real dollars FY 1999 ' s Princeville , Raleigh, Wilson, and Winston- appropriation is actually 25 % less than the Salem ; archaeological research at St . Philip ' s 1981 funding . Funding for HBCUs increased from less than $ 1 million several Moravian Church in Winston- Salem and the Thomas Day House in Milton% and thirteen ears ago to $ 8 . 8 million in FY 1999 . y g building restoration projects across the state . In his FY 2000 budget, President Clinton During * this same period, state grants and proposes HPF funding at $ 80 . 5 million, appropriations totaling more than $ 2 . 1 including $ 15 . 4 million for HBCUs and $ 30 million have assisted dozens of African million for special millenium grants to American preservation and restoration preserve America' s historic treasures into the projects . next century , . The amount proposed for the If the HPF were fully funded . at $ 150 state and territorial historic preservation million , HPO assistance to local offices , however, remains unchanged from