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SHA identified 286 highway bridges to investigate as part of this study. SHA’s records<br />
indicate that 1005 bridges built during the 1948-1965 period remain on county and state<br />
highways. However, unlike earlier studies, SHA has limited this study to the bridges on MD and<br />
US routes that form either the primary or secondary road systems in the state. It is our hope that<br />
other state and county agencies will make use of all the historic bridge studies when evaluating<br />
other highway bridges.<br />
In discussions with the Project Review and Compliance Section of the Office of<br />
Preservation Services and the Office of Survey and Registration, <strong>Maryland</strong> Historical Trust<br />
(MHT) in March, 2010 to determine the most efficient way to document the bridges in this study,<br />
the agencies agreed to a simplified format. Since the bridges are one of several common types,<br />
SHA anticipates that those not already identified as eligible for inclusion in the National Register<br />
of Historic Places will be determined not eligible because of their ubiquitous nature. It was<br />
agreed by both agencies that Short-Form Determination of Eligibility describing each of the 286<br />
bridges and providing a NRHP evaluation accompanied by a location map and a photograph of<br />
each bridge would provide sufficient information for MHT to comment with SHA’s eligibility<br />
determinations. Additional information about the design of the individual bridge types is<br />
included in the historic context report in Appendix C. SHA seeks to streamline the review<br />
process while complying with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as<br />
amended and its implementing regulations at 36 CFR Part 800 by identifying and evaluating<br />
bridges that were built between 1948 and 1965 on all <strong>Maryland</strong> state highways. This historic<br />
context study and the companion piece by the URS Corporation, Phase II <strong>State</strong> Historic Bridge<br />
Context & Inventory of Modern Bridges, Survey Report and Assessments of Significance, Vols. I,<br />
II, and III (2004) address SHA’s efforts to identify, evaluate and assess eligibility of 286 bridges<br />
built between 1948 and 1965 on <strong>Maryland</strong> highways.