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Additional products, if requested by the grant recipient, may result from the survey work including sketch maps, sketch plans, and the outlining of local preservation strategies. What is a National Register Noaination? National Register nominations may be for individual properties, districts, or multiple properties. A multiple property nomination, the most comprehensive one, includes all historic and/or prehistoric properties within a given geographic area that have been identified in a comprehensive survey as meeting the criteria for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This can include any combination of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant at the local, state, or national level. What are preservation planning activities? In general, activities for the continued identification and evaluation of historic properties and for their protection and enhancement are considered preservation planning activities. These may include preparation of a comprehensive historic preservation plan, development of historic preservation or district ordinances, establishment of financial incentive programs for preservation, and public education activities. PART II: SURVEY AND PLANNING METHODOLOGY The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Preservation Planning, Identification, Evaluation, Documentation and Registration are the guidelines prepared by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior for grants awarded from the Historic Preservation Fund. The Standards provide a general methodology fQr survey and planning activities on many levels and different scales. Therefore, all work completed with assistance of the survey and planning grants of the State Historic Preservation Office must be in conformance with these Standards. Copi~s may be obtained from the National Register Programs office of the THC. What are the elements of preservation planning? A historic resources survey of a community has as one of its main purposes the development of a complete, fully documented, comprehensive inventory of the community's historic properties. To achieve this end using cost-effective, broad, and unbiased methods, the Standards for Preservation Planning recommend the preparation of Historic Contexts. A Historic Context is a broad pattern of historical development in a community or region with geographic, temporal, and thematic boundaries. Historic resources, both standing and archeological, represent these contexts. For example, if a community began as a port city in the 19th century, its functions as such may be reflected in its street plan, the character of its neighborhoods, the location of warehouses and commercial buildings, or archeological remàins buried beneath more recent development. The operation of the 19th-century port is thus one Historic 5