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LEGAL NOTICE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH WILLIAM FRANCIS GALVIN MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 220 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON, MA 02125 NOTICE OF NOMINATION TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, Lenox, MA: Proposed Lenox Village Historic District. Proposed district includes properties on Main, Church, Cliffwood, Franklin, Greenwood, High, Housatonic, Hubbard, Hynes, Kemble, Old Center, Tucker, and Walker streets; Fairview and St. Ann's avenues; Old Stockbridge and Ore Bed roads; Hillside Drive. A public informational meeting at which the proposed nomination will be discussed will be held via Zoom courtesy of the Lenox Historical Commission at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 24, 2021. Information on how to access the meeting will be posted to the Lenox Historical Commission's webpage on the Town of Lenox website closer to the meeting date, and anyone with questions on how to attend can contact the Town of Lenox. The National Register of Historic Places is the federal government's official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. EFFECTS TO HISTORIC PROPERTIES consideration in the planning for federally assisted projects eligibility for certain Federal tax benefits consideration of historic values in the decision to issue a surface coal mining permit where coal is located qualification for federal grants for historic preservation when funds are available RIGHT TO OBJECT TO LISTING Owners of private properties nominated to the National Register of Historic Places must be given an opportunity to concur in or object to listing in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1980 and federal regulations 36 CFR Part 60. An owner or partial owner of private property who chooses to object to listing is required to submit to the State Historic Preservation Office a notarized statement certifying that the party is the sole or partial owner of the private property, as appropriate, and objects to the listing. For a single privately owned property with one owner, the property will not be listed if the owner objects. For a district with multiple ownership, or for a single property with multiple owners, the district or property will not be listed if a majority of the owners objects. Each owner or partial owner of private property has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of the property that party owns. If the property cannot be listed because the owner or majority of owners objects prior to the submission of a nomination to the Keeper of the National Register by the State, the State Historic Preservation Officer may submit the nomination to the Keeper for a determination of the eligibility of the property for inclusion in the National Register. If the property is then determined eligible for listing although not formally listed, federal agencies will be required to allow the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation an opportunity to comment before the agency may fund, license, or assist a project that will affect the property. Listing in the National Register, or the determination of a property's eligibility by the Keeper of the National Register, automatically brings with it inclusion in the State Register of Historic Places. The State Register provides for review of state funded, licensed, or permitted projects. If a property is listed in the National and State Registers, the owner may do anything with it that he/she wishes, unless state or federal funds, permits, or licensing are used, or unless some other regional and/or local ordinance or policy is in effect. If an owner wishes to object to the listing of a property, a notarized objection must be submitted to Brona Simon, State Historic Preservation Officer, Massachusetts Historical Commission, 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts, 02125, by June 9, 2021. Inclusion in the National and State Registers of Historic Places does not guarantee that cultural resources will be preserved. Rather, it ensures that the historic value of listed properties will be considered during the planning stages of any federally or state sponsored project. The nomination will be considered by the State Review Board of the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 1:00 pm. Details on how to attend will be posted on the MHC's website closer to the meeting date www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc Anyone wishing to obtain a copy of the National Register nomination in advance of the meeting should contact MHC. AD# 56150 05/07/2021