HPO Director Pedro “Roy” C. Sablan Jr. set the public hearing on Saipan for Sept. 24 at the Coastal Resources Management Office, second floor, Morgen Building in San Jose.
The public hearing on Rota will be held at the Round House at 6:30 p.m. today while the public hearing on Tinian will be conducted at the Tinian Youth Center on Sept. 22.
Sablan said HPO would like the public to come out and comment on what his office should be focusing on this year — what projects should be funded, what topics should be discussed whenever the office publishes ethnographic or archaeological books, and what particular areas should be surveyed in identifying cultural materials.
The proposed goals of HPO include an intensive survey in the Carolinas area on Tinian, reprinting HPO’s archaelogical and ethnographic collections, implementing and maintaining its Geographic Information System, nominating significant sites to the National Register of Historic Places, and providing a symposium on historic preservation policies as well as the identification of cultural materials.
HPO likewise aims to educate the children about prehistoric preservation through school visits, lectures and field trips, conduct underwater investigation with agencies and trainees as well as Northern Island surveys.
HPO anticipates to receive a grant of $401,879 from the U.S. National Park Services to support the CNMI’s historic preservation program and related community activities.
For more information, fax 664-2139 or e-mail [email protected].
