ABSTRACT
If there's one thing that writing this book has taught me, it's that the Section 106 process is far more esoteric, complicated, and insensitive to the public than it ought to be. Living with it on a day to day basis, year in and year out as I do, I've become used to it, and it's only when I try to explain it to real people, like you, that I realize how crazy it really is. Why in the world should a citizen have to go through a lot of bureaucratic process to prove that the environment he or she cares about meets standards developed by a bunch of archaeologists and architectural historians in a federal agency? Why should such a citizen have to enlist the aid of another bunch of such federal employees, plus a similar group at the state level, to force other federal agencies to pay attention to his or her concerns? This is democracy?
