The National Park Service is pleased to announce the adoption of a plan designed to improve the Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program. The plan, Making a Good Program Better, Final Guidance and Implementation of National Park System Advisory Board Recommendations for the Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program (December 2007) implements recommendations made by the National Park System Advisory Board following a two-year effort.

This plan implements recommendations included in the Advisory Board's report on the program, Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program: Recommendations for Making a Good Program Better (September 2006).

New program guidance developed to implement the recommendations is now available on interpreting the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation has been developed in four areas: windows, interior treatments, new additions and related new construction, and modern requirements and new technologies and materials. In addition, new guidance has been developed regarding very large, functionally-related, multiple-building complexes.