 SRI Foundation
Telephone: 505-892-5587
Email: tklein@srifoundation.org
Yeas of experience in current field: 25
Position/Title: Executive Director
EDUCATION: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, M.A., Anthropology, 1979; University of Arizona, B.A., Anthropology, 1974
EXPERTISE: Historic and Cultural Resources
RELATED TOPICS/EXPERIENCES: Most of Terry Klein’s professional career in historic preservation has been linked with transportation, especially with state DOTs and FHWA projects and programs. He has actively participated, through the Transportation Research Board and AASHTO, in efforts to streamline historic preservation review for surface transportation projects. He has been an advocate for streamlining and historic preservation stewardship in transportation for many years, and has spoken at and facilitated many national forums on these issues, including professional archaeological and historic preservation conferences.
Terry Klein’s experience includes the development and execution of the full range of historic preservation efforts associated with highway programs, including planning, historic property inventories, evaluations, assessment of effects, resolving of adverse effects, preparation of Section 106 agreement documents, and monitoring of historic preservation commitments included in Findings of No Significant Impact and Records of Decision. Most of this direct experience occurred in the context of the preparation of Categorical Exclusions, Environmental Assessments, and Environmental Impact Statements. He has also participated in the planning and preparation of these NEPA documents. In addition he has completed research projects on best practices in historic preservation planning and streamlining of Section 106 compliance for transportation agencies. These projects included studies on the use of information technology to evaluate cultural resource significance during transportation projects, best practices in the management of archaeological investigations associated with transporation projects, and the effective implementation and integration of Section 4(f) and Section 106.
Recent Projects, Publications and Accomplishments Include:
- Project Manager, Environmental Technical Assistance Program (ETAP), AASHTO – Community and Cultural Resources Subcommittee. Provides historic preservation technical and planning expertise to state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) nationwide. As an ETAP consultant, monitors historic preservation-related trends and events nationwide that may affect state highway programs. Recent activities included updating the tribal consultation and historic preservaiton tabs of the Center for Environmental Excellence web site, and working with AASHTO's Section 106 work group on improving the Section 106 process in the context of transportation projects.
- Project Manager, National Highway Institute Course 142049, "Beyond Compliance: Historic Preservation in Transportation Project Development." Co-developed this NHI course on Section 106 and the integration of Section 106 with NEPA and Section 4(f). Course also examines innovative approaches to streamlining the Section 106 process and enhancing stewardship of cultural resources. In addition to co-developing this NHI course, also serving as one of the SRI Foundation's instuctors to deliver the course.
- Principal Investigator, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 347, Managing Archaeological Investigations. Study of national best practices in transportation-related archaeological investigations. Conducted for NCHRP, Transportation Research Board.
- Conference Co-Organizer and Facilitator, Working Conference on Enhancing and Streamlining Section 106 Complaince and Transportation Project Delivery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 2004. The conference evaluated current historic preservation regulatory practices and developed an action plan to improve these practices in terms of national transportation programs. Representatives from FHWA, AASHTO, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, state DOTs, State Historic Preservation Offices, and tribes participated in this conference. The results and recommendations of the conference were compiled by the Foundation and distributed nationally. Conference was funded by FHWA, AASHTO, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, and the SRI Foundation.
- Facilitator, Transportation and Historic Preservation Working Group. Facilitated meeting of the working group created as a result of the 2002 conference on transportation and historic preservation in Lexington, Kentucky in June 2002. Working group, consisting of senior members of AASHTO, FHWA, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Preservation Action, focused on identifying approaches to reform Section 4(f) in relation to overlaps with Section 106. Conducted for AASHTO.
- Co-Principal Investigator, Cultural Resources, Woodrow Wilson Bridge Improvement Project, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. – Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. Managed all post-Record of Decision compliance associated with archaeological resources. Facilitated Design Review Working Group created to implement design components of project’s Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement. Project involved extensive coordination with the public, City of Alexandria, National Park Service, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and multiple State Historic Preservation Offices. Conducted for FHWA.
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