Request By:
Eldred W. Melton
Executive Director
State Historic Preservation Officer
Kentucky Heritage Commission
104 Bridge Street
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Opinion
Opinion By: Robert F. Stephens, Attorney General; Mark F. Armstrong, Assistant Attorney General
We are in receipt of your letter in which you ask our opinion of the proper public notifications to be made when a Multiple Resources nomination is made to the National Register of Historic Places. As you point out in your letter and in a subsequent conversation with your office, we learn that a Multiple Resources nomination is a new classification in which all eligible sites in a particular area, such as a county, are nominated to the National Register of Historic Places ("Register").
In existing procedures, the names of individual sites or the boundaries of districts are published when a site or district is nominated for inclusion in the Register. This particular publication allows the public to learn precisely what properties are being proposed as required by 36 CFR § 60.12.
It is our opinion that each individual site and the boundaries of any historic districts included in a Multiple Resources nomination must be published. Only in this way will the public be able to learn the precise properties being nominated in a Multiple Resources nomination.