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, agency managers will need to approve the expenditure of funds to contract with the private sector to use this tool. Given these impediments, the following actions are necessary in order to successfully implement the HPST and ECREL: • Identifying and procuring funding sources; • Locating an agency or organization to maintain and update the tools, particularly ECREL; • Improving, through training, practitioners' understanding of the utility of historic contexts;
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Some state DOTs direct project funds toward the development of planning tools that have a direct link to project needs, so using some of these funds for a planning tool such as ECREL would not be an unusual step. For example, funds for the treatment of a category of historic property within a project area might be directed toward the collection of historic contexts nationwide that relate to this property type, and the contexts would be placed within ECREL.
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These tools will also decrease development and review time for eligibility evaluations as the documentation levels needed for effective decision making are made explicit and readily accessible, eliminating extraneous materials often inserted into current documents. The HPST, in particular, would replace currently used evaluation report formats, forms, and correspondence, and the majority of decision-making efforts would be documented and captured in a single format.
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Selected state DOTs and SHPOs should consider participating in the prototype testing effort. (According to comments received in this study, those states might include, but not be limited to, California, Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, and Washington.)
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