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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 7 4.0 RESULTS OF ONLINE SURVEY 4.1 INTRODUCTION A critical element of the NCHRP Task 114 study is exploring how the FHWA and state DOTs consider tribal expertise during all steps in the Section 106 process. Another critical element of this study is to document tribal perspectives on how well FHWA and state DOTs consider tribal expertise during the steps in the Section 106 process.
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 8 No written responses were negative but rather provided more detail on the nature of the agency-tribal relationship or how the information provided by tribes was considered, if at all, by the agency. Comments included identifying their coordination with tribes as letting them know about a project just as they would a SHPO or other consulting parties, not receiving additional information about historic properties from the tribes in response to the initial outreach or follow-up questions, only consulting with tribes on a project-by-project basis, expanding the consultation process if requested by the tribes, and some states having or creating a more formal tribal consultation protocol developed in consultation with tribes.
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 9 Based on the submitted responses, tribes will perform this work themselves in-house or, in instances that are more infrequent, will hire a consultant to do the work. Rarely are they directly involved in the selection of a consultant by a DOT, but their preferences are made known to the DOT because of the desire to have a firm with which they have a good working relationship.
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 10 7. If tribes are compensated for participating in the Section 106 process, how are they financially compensated and by whom?
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 11 FIGURE 1: Geographical Representation, Respondents from State DOTs and FHWA Division Offices
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 12 4.2.2 TRIBES Over the course of the project, the project team received online survey responses from 31 tribal respondents. Using the location of the tribal office (when known)
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 13 3. Is your tribe typically involved in conducting field investigations to identify places of religious and cultural significance to your tribe?
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 14 sometimes follow-up ethnographic surveys are conducted by another consultant hired by the agency. One tribe was emphatic that no surveys should be undertaken without a tribal monitor.
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Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources 15 FIGURE 2: Geographical Representation, Tribal Respondents
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