Holland & Hart LLP

Compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 and other cultural resource and historic preservation laws has become increasingly complex and time consuming over the past decade. While evaluating cultural resources and conducting tribal consultation is usually a federal agency requirement, project proponents play a key role, and experience directly impacts the agency’s compliance or lack thereof.  Historic preservation and tribal consultation considerations affect a wide variety of projects, from energy development and transmission to highways and airports. Through Holland & Hart’s network of offices, we have attorneys with the knowledge, experience, and local connections necessary to help clients in a range of industries solve complex preservation issues across the country.

Holland & Hart attorneys have handled cultural resource issues and negotiated project-specific preservation agreement documents for linear rights-of-way projects, including pipelines, electric transmission lines, railroads, and highway projects in addition to traditional mining and renewable energy projects.

We regularly work with Indian tribes and address preservation issues with a range of federal agencies, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Federal Communications Commission, the Surface Transportation Board, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Through our experience, we have developed good working relationships with permitting agencies, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, and numerous Indian tribes.

We also advise clients through the regulatory hurdles associated with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), sacred sites consultation, and the Antiquities Act.

Holland & Hart lawyers regularly manage consultations and negotiations with the full range of consulting parties, from State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPOs), and the ACHP to state and local governments as well as local, regional, and national preservation organizations. We have also counseled and trained in-house counsel, consultants, tribes, and cultural resource management firms. Our experienced attorneys deal with historic properties of every kind, including archeological sites both in the ground and under water, architectural properties, cultural resources, National Historic Landmarks, and large properties such as districts and designated landscapes.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.